Originally Posted by whitecity

Oh no!!

Impossable mission for UK Armed Forces...

How can we do it now that Ark Royal and Harrier have been retired?

If it needs more than the the odd 8,300 mile round-trip (15 hrs?) token air strike from the UK, probably involving several tankers borrowed from other nations like for Libya, I suppose it will depend on us begging (or paying through the nose) for host nation support again including sufficient 5* hotel accommodation for the hundreds of RAF support personnel required and a road/rail/air/sea logs train to rival D-Day.

There's always Akrotiri of course (only a 5,000 mile round-trip) but remember that we couldn't use it to launch strike missions against Libya for fear of outraging the Cypriot government. If we suck up to the French enough, perhaps they will let us use their base in Djibouti (only a 1,000 mile round-trip).

It's a pity we can't just send a carrier, isn't it?

Dashed unsporting of these chaps to base themselves out of convenient range of a decent 5 star hotel. Who could have foreseen the need for a mobile ocean based airstrip? How's about we ask them if they wouldn't mind marking time until 2025(ish) when we will just about be ready to sort them out?

Originally Posted by Dunservin

It's a pity we can't just send a carrier, isn't it?

Yeah, it was a grim day for the RN's 'mighty' fixed wing capability of a half dozen Harriers when they scrapped that big USAFRICOM command & logistics base and airport in Djibouti.

Job for the Navy isn't it? Can't they park up off Mogadishu and lob things at the baddies?

Hello SunnoWC. I thought it wouldn't take long.

Let some other fcuker bomb them. Thanks to the last government we have thousands and thousands of Somalis living in this country. Despite the fact we shelter them a few will want to extract revenge should we become involved. We don't want a repeat of 7/7.

Originally Posted by sunnoficarus

Yeah, it was a grim day for the RN's 'mighty' fixed wing capability of a half dozen Harriers when they scrapped that big USAFRICOM command & logistics base and airport in Djibouti.

Or did they

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I'm sure we could find somewhere in Kenya to fly from.

just attach a laser designator pod and jdam to a commercial aircraft aka air america and job done

Is this part of British aid program? or Super hero with no super powers of to the rescue?