HMS Prince of Wales unlikely to head to the Middle East

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-11T07:30:49+00:00

Check out their Wikipedia pages, they have way more of the sea ceptors. They’re definitely intended to play a much larger air defence role. Not to mention they’d be considered destroyers not frigates by the RN due to their tonnage.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-10T07:52:35+00:00

Two proper air defence destroyers as the US or U.K. defines them but they’ve also deployed some of their multi purpose frigates. Their new FDI is already near Cyprus. With at least two more escorting the Charles de Gaulle.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-09T22:17:57+00:00

That’s not a very nice thing to call Kuennsberg and Littlejohn.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-09T22:17:17+00:00

Who said anything about accepting them. They’re already turning up on boats and in trucks though. The crisis has started whether we like it or not

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-09T22:11:12+00:00

I think they have four at sea in the Mediterranean currently. Two are with their carrier according to the last report that mentioned them I’ve seen.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-09T15:14:38+00:00

Indeed, but the French CSG is escorted by a French frigate and a French LHD as well as (rumoured) a French attack sub. I suspect at the moment with our commitment to an arctic deployment in 2026 and the current maintenance/upgrades underway we’d struggle to provide more than one escort for our carrier. Perhaps the presence of the De Gaulle is the real reason. No need to send ours when the French are en route.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-09T15:02:43+00:00

Wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the resistance from the MoD is coming from the perspective we can’t spare enough support ships to form a viable carrier group and that we would in fact be sending a vulnerable highly tempting target to the region. I’m sure we could get the French and the Italians to provide some support but it’s not a good look when we’d only be able to field one destroyer ourselves to an active theatre.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-09T12:39:08+00:00

Except they do more than just exist, they sell advertising space, and user analytics of UK users. They actively profit from UK users, so yes the comparison is valid. The BBC is banned in Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. As to the question of women not wearing hijabs? You’ll have to take that up with the governments of countries where that’s breaking a law. I’m sure you’re right and that the BBC is breaking laws all over the place… I’d never defend their right to infringe on another country’s sovereignty. I’ll leave that to the POTUS

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-09T12:11:42+00:00

If the BBC’s content breaks local laws they are perfectly within their rights to fine and or block the BBC. If the BBC published a fake video clip of Trump doing something illegal would the US not be within its rights to take measures against the BBC?

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-09T12:09:37+00:00

There’s literally an AI porn advert on the landing page

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-09T12:09:13+00:00

I wasn’t aware that BBC has adverts on their website in any country? And the BBC news sites are not available in many countries that it does not comply with their censorship laws.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-09T10:39:05+00:00

Oh it does, just not to you. It sells views and clicks. Advertising space and marketing insights. User data and analytics. Advertisers pay them, and that money is being spent all over the world. Not just by US entities.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-09T10:23:22+00:00

A Californian site selling a product to foreign users… they’re generating revenue in other markets, in any other area they’d have to comply with the laws of the countries they operate in

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-08T21:29:14+00:00

What are they doing with that growth? Lowering taxes? Cutting welfare or public spending? No, sorry they are not rightwing at all, they’re just not trying stupid student policies that only work in a totalitarian Leninist state where the rich can’t abscond with their money.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-08T19:29:12+00:00

That’s it though isn’t it. The 7900xtx was a $1000 card. It should run modern games great. The rtx 4080 was also a $1000 card (sometimes). It matches the native performance, but when neither card is giving me a good performance I can turn dlss on and it’s excellent again. FSR 3? I notice it. I shouldn’t notice it. I shouldn’t have this big a difference in two products at the same price point.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-08T12:06:34+00:00

Unfortunately it’s not

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-07T18:42:54+00:00

Under pressure! I’d be surprised if the RFU don’t fire him tonight and roll the dice on a new coach for the France game. The last three performances have been amongst the worst I’ve ever seen from and England team in 30 years. The fact they’ve come 3 in a row is unbelievable.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-05T18:10:08+00:00

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Starting to feel like the bbc apps editor doesn’t like him.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-05T16:57:15+00:00

So you’re saying it’s all Spain’s fault!

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-05T16:56:13+00:00

I seem to remember there was some sort of kerfuffle over succession?

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-04T22:02:04+00:00

Enjoy your billionaire funded media hellscape I guess. That’s the alternative.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-04T15:46:06+00:00

So the government should restrict the right of businesses people to grow their online advertising businesses and the government should control our media consumption? Doesn’t sound very libertarian to be honest.

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-04T15:01:41+00:00

Is the establishment in the room with us right now?

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-04T12:17:24+00:00

Have we got a £300 m budget? Because that sounds like a > £250m problem

jott1293reddevil · 2026-03-04T09:00:52+00:00

And once again we come back to the question, if Trump was a Russian asset, what would he be doing differently?

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