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Olympics security latest: Royal Navy to deploy depth charges near strategic sewers

‘There is still the small but measurable risk of a one-man suicide submarine traversing London’s Victorian-era sewers, arriving under the Olympic village and launching cruise missiles through an uncovered toilet.’

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Posted: May 2nd, 2012
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Britain’s depleted Air Force ‘no longer has capacity to carpet-bomb Germany’

‘Europe may have changed massively in the last 67 years, but that’s no reason not to amass thousands of Spitfires in the countryside of Kent. If we can learn one thing from the History Channel, it’s that repeats are inevitable.’

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Posted: Mar 23rd, 2012
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Ministry of Defence ‘mislays’ small war

Following an auditor’s report that the Ministry of Defence lost track of assets worth £6.3bn, embarrassed officials confirmed last night that the department had also managed to mislay a small war it was conducting.

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Posted: Jul 6th, 2011
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HMS Victory to replace Trident and Ark Royal

HMS Victory, Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar, is to be brought back into service as a replacement for Trident and the Ark Royal.

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Posted: Oct 26th, 2010
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