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2019-04-26 Africa North

Reports a French battleship anchored for hours at the port of Ras Lanuf, Libya

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Posted by Fred 2019-04-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top
File under: Arab Spring

#1 The prettiest ship in the Yard?
That's the Richelieu, buddy. En garde!
She bears eight to the fore,
A great weight of "amour,"
But, the British assure us, she warred.

Posted by Vinegar Gromock8346 2019-04-26 01:47|| 2019-04-26 01:47|| Front Page Top

#2 France has battleships?

...Not since the Jean Bart (Richelieu's sister) went to the scrappers' torches in 1970.

Mike

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-04-26 04:27|| 2019-04-26 04:27|| Front Page Top

#3 France has battleships?

From the same Twitter account the original article is from:

#UPDATE: Additional reports that a French barge/(cargo?) ship has also docked at the port of Ras Lanuf accompanied by the deployment of an LNA military force belonging to Haftar in the region

#UPDATE: Al-Jazeera reporting that the French Navy unloaded speedboats and assault weapons in the LNA-controlled port of Ras Lanuf, Libya

It appears that the "battleship is actually some sort of cargo ship carrying speedboats, etc..

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-04-26 08:39|| 2019-04-26 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 "He sunk my ~~Battleship~~ Cargo Ship!"

Posted by Frank G 2019-04-26 09:32|| 2019-04-26 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 It appears that the "battleship is actually some sort of cargo ship carrying speedboats, etc..

"Journalists!", he snorted. "Bless their black little hearts"

Posted by SteveS 2019-04-26 09:34|| 2019-04-26 09:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Other Twitter reports suggest:

1) France intends to give enough aid to Haftar that he will be able to open a second front by landing a force from the sea at Tripoli.
2) Trump had a phone conversation with Haftar.
3) Haftar is not an Islamist

Who knows it's only Twitter type accuracy.

Posted by 3dc 2019-04-26 10:21|| 2019-04-26 10:21|| Front Page Top

#7 3) Haftar is not an Islamist

Color me skeptical. They never seem to be Islamists until they are.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-04-26 10:29|| 2019-04-26 10:29|| Front Page Top

#8 What's the pool on Russians selling their battleships to France?

Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-26 11:43|| 2019-04-26 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Heavy to port.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-04-26 18:02|| 2019-04-26 18:02|| Front Page Top

#10 What's the pool on Russians selling their battleships to France?

Not betting on this since lately Russian seems to be buying their warships from France (Before the NATO sanctions on Russian. The two ships France was building for Russia before the sanctions was eventfully sold to Egypt.)

I got curious and looked up a list of current Russian warships: List of active Russian Navy ships

Seems Russian has an awful lot of submarines!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-04-26 18:13|| 2019-04-26 18:13|| Front Page Top

#11 future reefs

Posted by Frank G 2019-04-26 18:31|| 2019-04-26 18:31|| Front Page Top

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