Dabber Thoughts
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Musings of a Dabber Officer. If you don't know what one of those is, you're not worthy. All my own thoughts, not of my employer. Sarcastic and self-righteous
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Joined September 2020
This is absolutely spot on 👌 and is extremely applicable to the British Armed Forces. Give people explanations or else someone else will, which may be inaccurate or even nefarious.
This is going to be a perfect example where airlines are so far behind in how they communicate. There are a lot of good reasons why they’re diverting back to LHR. BA will release a vague statement after the fact that says very little. Replies to FR24’s post already showing why
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Absolutely 100% correct!
Defence Secretary @JohnHealey_MP (rightly) says the Royal Navy should not be involved in stopping small boats in the English Channel. It's Border Command’s responsibility to protect our borders https://t.co/NysRcMBNR9
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Once again, an article on the Queen Elizabeth Class that mixes truth and some good points with misconceptions, straight-up lies and lacking context, thereby rendering it pointless @jackbuckby
https://t.co/MViJW8sds5
nationalsecurityjournal.org
Key Points and Summary – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth-class carriers were built to restore true blue-water power projection, pairing modern decks with F-35B stealth jets for a U.S.-style carrier strike...
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"Babcock’s advanced manufacturing expertise has enabled us to build on our established missile tube assembly capability, to deliver additional complex assemblies". Your reminder that TRIDENT tubes (and large diameter tubes derived from it and found on VIRGINIAs) are made in UK.
HII and Babcock have signed a new contract that will see major sections of US Virginia-class submarines built in Scotland, deepening industrial links between the two countries and broadening the AUKUS supply base. Click image for more. https://t.co/r8RPs0CTil
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How dare 1SL argue that the maritime domain is incredibly important for the defence of an island nation with 95% of trade going by sea. He's just putting his own interests first, not that of the nation. The RN has had too much funding and should be disinvested in!
@gregbagwell @GenGJenkinsRM This looks like the usual nonsense. A service embracing a new role/capability in an effort to grab a bigger slice of the budget. A service chief prioritising the narrow interests of his own service, rather than those of defence as a whole, or indeed those of the nation. /4
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For those keeping score, everything in the WaPo story from 28 Nov has been confirmed, either by the administration itself or reports from ADM Bradley's testimony
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This is an aerospace journalist Jon Lake, who thinks that threatening people with physical violence is a joke, and then calling them autistic when they don't see it as a joke @geoallison @UKDefJournal @NavyLookout @alessionaval @IBallantyn
@DabberThoughts @gregbagwell I never did any such thing. I (jokingly) pointed out that you deserved a slap. Is this yet another wilful misinterpretation, or are you just autistic?
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Just ridiculous.
@DabberThoughts And how do you think the convoys would have fared without the VLR Liberators, Catalinas, Sunderlands et al? Of course the Navy made a contribution, but without air power, we'd have lost.
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I love a bit of history revisionism. It wasn't the Atlantic Convoys and the hard work, dedication and sacrifices of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy that saved Britain in the Second World War, it was the RAF ...
@DabberThoughts @gregbagwell - (double the payload & way more than double the range of an F-35). Air Power saved Britain in 1940, not the RN's frigates & submarines. Without air superiority, the liberation of Europe would have been impossible. Air Power delivered the decisive blows against Germany & Japan./2
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Well done America 👏👏👏🙄🙄
"Russia has welcomed Donald Trump's new US National Security Strategy, calling it "largely consistent" with Moscow's vision." https://t.co/uCyOP0n9ma
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But Jon just wants the best for UK Defence and doesn't want to see funding for the RN cut and diverted to the RAF at all 🙄
@NavyLookout Do we need an SSN programme? Most of our allies make do with AIP-equipped conventional subs. Can we afford them? Are they a priority in light of the threat & everything else we need to do? These questions need to be asked and answered /1
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Looks like @DrChrisParry will have a remarkably short political career I'd say https://t.co/ez04uYrz6e
telegraph.co.uk
Nigel Farage urged to fire Chris Parry after string of ‘grotesque’ remarks
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Because it's not the role of the Royal Navy 🙄
@johnkonrad @RoyalNavy nice marketing 👍 while tiny boats full of migrants wash up on shore all day, the royal navy nowhere to be found
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Watch now - Silent Night: On the Frontline. A Christmas advert by the Royal Navy. #Christmas2025
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Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said just a few days ago "this entire narrative was false"
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just confirmed that there was, in fact, a second strike ordered by Admiral Bradley, the SOCOM commander.
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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It's important to highlight that the OP HIGHMAST deployment wasn't a single service endeavour by the RN. It involved the entire Armed Forces, with the RAF playing a central role, not just with the F-35B force, but supporting elements as well. https://t.co/ctAxulKmvQ
raf.mod.uk
The Royal Air Force has successfully concluded Operation Highmast, an eight-month mission that demonstrated the UK’s ability to deliver air and space power across multiple theatres, from the Medite...
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When someone says "ask how I know" then blocks you before you can actually ask them, I think it's safe to assume they don't actually know https://t.co/1f2umwEyzW
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