Hebrides Range in action
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| Guga curry takes its revenge |
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced yesterday that HMS Dauntless, second of the class, has made the first firing from a Type 45 of the French-made Aster missiles with which the ships are armed. All previous trial shoots were carried out using a test barge at French facilities in the Mediterranean.
According to the MoD:"Better than the Mediterranean" has a certain ring to it, and this is something the Task Force should be shouting about to demonstrate the necessity of the range.
The system successfully fired an Aster 30 missile from HMS Dauntless at the MOD range in the Hebrides and hit a moving target drone."Both my ship's company and the equipment manufacturers have done a sterling job," commented Dauntless' captain, Richard Powell.
The first person/newspaper to lift this story without attribution, and present it as their own will be named and shamed. IP addresses are being logged!
4 comments:
...successfully fired an Aster 30 missile from HMS Dauntless at the MOD range in the Hebrides and hit a moving target drone.
That's kinda worrying. Moving target drone?! What if the missile sensors had mistaken Hector on his tractor for that :( Is this actually safe for Outer Hebrides residents?
You have a problem, sir. That is not your story. It is an MoD story.
Neither is it The Register's. It was circulated to media by Defence Management last week. Just see www.defencemanagement.com/news_story.asp?id=14318
Try Googling "your" alleged property next time before making silly threats.
Any truth in the rumour that the Euromillions big winner yesterday was a Hebrides resident who works on the range?
11.12am
Yes it's true!!!
...and he is off to the auction in Dingwall at the end of the month to see if he can get a reasonably priced 265 Fergusson, and a single furrow plough. Don't let his wife know or she'll be off to the Eastgate Centre.
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