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2 UK ships collided with eachother in Bahrain (nitter.net)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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The ship names are absurd lmao. HMS Chiddingfold and HMS Bangor.

It's not a real country. They don't deserve to issue their own currency, the EU needs to invade immediately and force the Euro on them.

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[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

I have this memory of watching the History Channel show about the Falklands when I was like 9. I was a patriotic empire fanboy back then so I distinctly remember a story from it. I've forgotten exact details and I can't find anything about it otherwise. Anyway, the story is:

Brits faked a radio transmission for the Argentines to intercept.

In the transmission, they pretended to be organising some huge attack with however many destroyers and tonnes of artillery bombardment support, when really they only had a few gunboats.

The Argentines buy the bluff and retreat from the position. A group of dudes wander on up to find it empty, and plant the flag unopposed.

Could be total propaganda, but I swear that's a faithful retelling of it. It was my favourite story for years.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

It was backed up by several other ambitious things they did, like bombing the island runways ahead of time by using 9 long range air refuellers to get the bombers a much greater distance than they should have been able to go (something that hadn't been done before). Also the island defence weren't exactly expecting shit so those bombing runs happened completely unopposed as the island troops didn't really know if they were allowed to engage back.

By the time they got their act together the bombers were leaving and ditched into the ocean on the return to be picked up by ships.

A lot of British campaigns use weird tactics and strategies that pay off. They can be quite creative. Quite different to the massive overwhelming saturation tactics of the americans.