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2007-01-06 Europe

Danish warship should patrol in the Arabian Sea

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Posted by mrp 2007-01-06 12:13|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Rear Admiral Nils Wang?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-06 14:52|| 2007-01-06 14:52|| Front Page Top

#2 It's a brave new world, Frank :)

A link to his picture and interview (interesting) is in the post's comment.

Posted by mrp 2007-01-06 15:05|| 2007-01-06 15:05|| Front Page Top

#3 One problem with deploying EU ships to the Indian Ocean is lack of logistical and maintenance facilities. Someone, somewhere, is going to have to provide those facilities. Diego Garcia is a long way away. Iraq, Kuwait, and the rest of the Gulf States are too bottled up (Straits of Hormuz). Two logical places would be Djibouti and Mumbai (Bombay), or Goa, India. That's going to take a lot of diplomacy (i.e., money).

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-01-06 15:21|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-01-06 15:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Djibouti won't take that much money : it is the home of USSOCOM's Horn of Africa Command, and a major naval and Coast Guard basing location. The French effectively dumped Djibouti a couple of years back by pulling out most of the French Foreign Legion, and the US stepped in and saved the day. A surprising large part of the Djibouti GNP is now due to USSOCOM and the Navy/CG bases.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-01-06 15:43|| 2007-01-06 15:43|| Front Page Top

#5 rather disturbing er....tower...on that ship in the post, mrp. LOL

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-06 16:16|| 2007-01-06 16:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Frank, it's a Danish warship; crewed by Danes, and undoubtedly designed by Danish naval architects who are comfortable with their Danishness.

Posted by mrp 2007-01-06 17:16|| 2007-01-06 17:16|| Front Page Top

#7 lol :-) not that there's anything wrong with that. Some of our finest personal appliances have come from there

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-06 17:32|| 2007-01-06 17:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of those muslim dogs like a dutch frigate.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-06 20:06|| 2007-01-06 20:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Any bets on how long after taking station in the Gulf, somebody flys a 'signal' flag that has one of the offensive cartoons printed on it? In plain view of some of the natives????

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-06 21:41|| 2007-01-06 21:41|| Front Page Top

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