Apparently, they are not ruling out sabotage
http://www.taringa.net/posts/noticias/16283016/Armada-Argentina-Renovada-y-Operativa.html
http://www.perfil.com/contenidos/2013/01/23/noticia_0002.html
This comment made me chuckle
Why don’t we send over a group of scrap metal merchants and….. hang-on, has this been done before?
Ha-ha (sorry I can’t help it). Why do we spend some much time worrying about these guys!
Marginally more info.
http://www.canada.com/news/Argentine+destroyer+that+against+Britain+sinks+symbol+decay/7861166/story.html
She’d been in some sort of “reserve” since 2004. Corroded sea tube almost certainly did for her. Bet she was essentially tied up and locked, no maintenance, no preservation, no crew, no flooding alarms, no surprise.
Good to see the new UK secret weapon of crack ninja suicide penguins has suceeded on its first mission!
Don’t under-estimate them.
Our garrison of several thousand could be overwhelmed at any moment by a mischievous and unconventional plan.
The dogs.
“”There has to be a well-founded reason for this.” – Black Buck rides again :-D
Why don’t we send over a group of scrap metal merchants and….. hang-on, has this been done before?
Ace, thats a cracker, am going to have to add that to the post :)
Chortle chortle
Admittedly this ship had been out of service for sometime but still it doesn’t really fill one with confidence in their abilities when they allow one of their ships to sink. At the pier!!
Even the USN lost a destroyer while on pier.
What should be more problematic is the bad economic situation in Argentina, requiring a foreign scapegoat. If their soy bean harvest becomes as bad as predicted…
Stay tuned!
Loved this comment on the article
U.S.: Intrepid Aircraft Carrier: permanent Museum, New York
ARA Holy Trinity: Important ship in the Falklands War:
Differences between a world power and a third world banana republic …
You lot can take the ****, but the Argentine Navy is still a threat – one of their major surface assets recently returned from Ghana and looks to be fully operational.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/10/uk-argentina-ship-idUKBRE90901520130110
You have to hand it to the Argentine’s though – they chose a smokin’ hot president.
Queen of Botox, wonder what she looks like in the nip :)
@Gewyne: HMS Invincible, broken up for scrap….
Yes smokin’ hot…..
http://pinealeye.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/WitchBeer.jpg
Peace X, peace. She may be an arse but no point letting her ruin your karma or nature.
I could just go a nice chicken karma.
Ace,
Shame there’s no HMS Del Boy in service to go lend a hand (and yes that does sound familiar…)
Sir H,
Surely mentioning “Them What Waddle” is dancing around the OSA paperwork? (” ‘Arold is that most dangerous of animals, a crack ninja suicide penguin….”)
x,
*Picard facepalm*
Also, where have you gone, Ossie Ardiles? In a grim sort of way that’s a bit of our collective youth, is that old hulk….
Just occured to me: I s’pose that means you can’t really stick a sign that says “one careful owner” on the windscreen at this point, can you? Dockside view does tend to give the game away.
They’d do well to clear out their ghost fleet if they really do have scores of ships tied up and left to deteriorate; instead of keeping up ship numbers for the sake of appearance.
This is down to underfunding their navy, not necessarily due to a lack of professionalism within that service. Let us not forget that other navy which forgot that HMS Astute needed water in which to bob around in; or which a few years back nearly sank HMS Nottingham after unexpectedly discovering and bumping into Australia.
I heard it was the SBS doing their Cockleshell Heroes routine.
“left-leaning President Cristina Fernandez.” – She’s not leaning to the left as much as that destroyer. Sorry, couldn’t resist that.
I have an exclusive photo of our brave ninja penguins; I may be threatening national security by sharing so if if I “disappear” MI5 may have paid a visit…
http://p2.la-img.com/930/17693/5966159_5_l.jpg
@ST – Presumably these are Mark 2 Penguins, Mark 1s having shown up in that video about hovercraft a few days ago?
Um. Penguin karma and a vegetable pilau for two please…
@ Gloomy Northen Boy – That is indeed my understanding. Some have criticised the Penguin Warrior programme of Gold plating perfectly good ninja penguins as pointless and there was the embarresing oversight of not waterproofing the mark one Penguin Integrated Combat Kit… By the top brass have always said we need to PICK up our Penguins.
x,
I suppose if they’d just spray-painted Santissima Trinidad’s bog with psychological-warfare graffiti that’d be penguin vandaloo?
It’ll be visiting its two sisters at the bottom of the sea, thanks god this one without sailors on board, cheers.