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Thats what I've been thinking, I'm surprised its not been targeted.
In 2013/14 there were a couple of RPG attacks on ships on the canal by various ragamuffins in the Sinai desert. They caused very little damage to the ships. The response of the Egyptian military is massive, heavy handed and unreported because reporters are not allowed into this region.
https://ctc.usma.edu/attacks-in-the-suez-security-of-the-canal-at-risk/
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
The Egyptians can be very heavy handed indeed but, as they found out in 1967 and 1973, for all their numbers and aggressive nature they're actually pretty, well, rubbish. That said, the entire regional Egyptian army versus half a dozen khat crazed loons with worn out AK's and light anti-armour weapons was probably a fairly easy dust up.
rockyroller
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yeah funny picture. they're gonna need a bigger backhoe
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I enjoy watching Gold Divers. The miners use suction pipes to suck the gold up from the bottom of the Bering Sea. Somebody needs to scale up one of those dredges by about 100 times, and SUCK the sand up from the canal rather than trying to dig it up!
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I'm surprised that all there's been are a couple of RPG attacks, with the potential for some serious grief from a major attack its a surprise that theres not been one.
DRM
Guru
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- West Yorks
Neither, it was Uncle Albert, to busy telling anyone who’d listen what happened “during the war”
snorri
Legendary Member
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- East coast, up a bit.
Boskalis have that sort of gear, but it will take time to transport to the site and set up, if that's the way they plan to move it..Somebody needs to scale up one of those dredges by about 100 times, and SUCK the sand up from the canal rather than trying to dig it up!
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
All they need to do is ease an even bigger ship up to it and push it out of the way- that'll soon shift it... what could possibly go wrong? 
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irw
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- Liverpool, UK
Pale Rider
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An old salt in Portsmouth told me the navy managed to beach a frigate in the entrance to the harbour.
The plan to refloat it was to send a bigger ship in at full pelt to create a large bow wave which would refloat the stranded vessel.
My mate was on the ship that made the wave.
He said it was a bit hairy because it's a dead end, and they only just managed to slow the ship/turn it to one side before it too crashed into land.
Believe it or not, the plan worked.
But the navy got several complaints from home owners whose front gardens were flooded with seawater.
The plan to refloat it was to send a bigger ship in at full pelt to create a large bow wave which would refloat the stranded vessel.
My mate was on the ship that made the wave.
He said it was a bit hairy because it's a dead end, and they only just managed to slow the ship/turn it to one side before it too crashed into land.
Believe it or not, the plan worked.
But the navy got several complaints from home owners whose front gardens were flooded with seawater.
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winjim
Smash the cistern
The Suez canal is pretty straight though, it might be worth a try.
Drago
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We're saved! The Americans have offered to help!
Ok, as usual they're late to the party, but they do look dashing in those uniforms and they have good supplies of ladies nylons and cigarettes.
And when its all done they'll make a film in which they rewrite the whole affair and explain how Dwayne Johnson won the war.
Ok, as usual they're late to the party, but they do look dashing in those uniforms and they have good supplies of ladies nylons and cigarettes.
And when its all done they'll make a film in which they rewrite the whole affair and explain how Dwayne Johnson won the war.
