UK MARITIME PATROL: COULD KAWASAKI HAVE CRACKED IT?
POLITICIANS will be politicians, often saying what they mean in a roundabout way. When British Prime Minister David Cameron this week made comments about UK defence, commentators seized on every word, trying to read between the lines, second guessing what he really meant. What has become apparent this week is that the UK is now committed to the NATO minimum standard of spending 2% of GDP on defence. David Cameron’s observations, that more money should be spent on what he ref
Type 22 – The One they got right?
“THIS is the one they got right!” Not my words, but the introductory sentence in naval writer Leo Marriott’s 1986 book “Type 22”. At the time he wrote that, the 14- strong class that was also known as the Broadsword class was still in production. Its final incarnation, the powerful Batch III ships were yet to commission. Those that had been built had proved their worth in war, and the future looked bright for Britain’s latest class of world-beating warships. Little did Mr Ma
