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2 UK ships collided with eachother in Bahrain
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HMS Shiddenfard
RMS ban gore (except from gaza)
dammit
[HMS Chiddingfold] was named after the after the fox hunt at Petworth, Sussex
Because of course it was.
every stereotype of the british is true
sink the entire island
sus sex
are they chidding's me?
They're chidding and farthing.
sus sex
It's from, like, the old English for the southern part of Saxon territory. See also Essex, Middlesex, etc.
HMS Shiddingfard
Dicknob upon Buttingshire
Sadism is engrained in the Anglo culture and their biological makeup. It is a primal instinct.
Why would the Houthis do this 
#TheUKIsHamas
They’re made of fiberglass?! 😂 The Sun: SEA CRASH Sailors battling to stop Royal Navy warship sinking after another reversed into it
It is made from fibreglass instead of steel to counteract the threat from magnetic mines.
Soon they will be made of wood again.
Holy shit, that's why it sounded like that. You could probably shoot at this thing with a BB gun and sink it 
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Lotta 
responses about diversity hires 
Critical support to british soldiers fighting to destroy the royal navy
How many wars or engagements has the Royal Navy actually had in the 20th century where they won not through strength of numbers and didn't lose an equivalent (or greater) number of ships along the way?
I honestly think the Royal Navy is the biggest paper tiger force on the face of the planet.
where they won not through strength of numbers
That reduce the number very sharply, especially since numerical advantage was integral part of RN doctrine, and they simply didn't engaged witout it when it could be avoided.
Excluding small scale skirmishes and indecisive battles, i found three:
- Battle of Imbros 1918
- 1st battle of Narvik 1940
- Attack on Taranto 1940
I had considered Taranto but I might have mentally discarded that because it was a surprise strike against an unprepared enemy rather than a pitched battle. I suppose we can also add in the attack on the French fleet at Mers El Kabir if we're going to include Taranto.
numerical advantage was integral part of RN doctrine, and they simply didn't engaged witout it when it could be avoided.
Britania rule the (human) waves!
Britania rule the (human) waves
besides that "human waves" are propaganda b.s. that nobody ever actually used, "fair fights" are so rare and assiduously avoided by everybody they have no place in serious analysis. you can imagine how a battle would go differently if the participants were completely different all you want but that's just fantasy it doesn't make the real military what did the real battle a "paper tiger".
same silly game with the USN's aircraft carriers 'useless future artificial reefs' i hear all the time (if they face a real opponent!) okay well i'm sure that's a great salve on all the dead from countries that weren't fair opponents? the game-changing hypersonics are literally only in countries the US was having a hard time bullying before those came out
same silly game with the USN's aircraft carriers 'useless future artificial reefs' i hear all the time (if they face a real opponent!) okay well i'm sure that's a great salve on all the dead from countries that weren't fair opponents? the game-changing hypersonics are literally only in countries the US was having a hard time bullying before those came out
I don't think the future artificial reefs thing is pointing out you're a moron if you get killed by an aircraft carrier, I'd argue it's exactly to point out they only work against enemies far removed from being peers as per military might.
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“fair fights” are so rare and assiduously avoided by everybody they have no place in serious analysis
Obligatory reminder that British definition of "fair fight" is the battle of Omdurman.
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I'll be honest here, the Falklands operation was one that Britain should not have won on paper against an opponent on the other side of the world with every single geographical advantage but it was executed incredibly well.
Britain should not have won on paper against an opponent on the other side of the world with every single geographical advantage but it was executed incredibly well.
The Argentine dictatorship sent conscripts (some as young as 18) to fight against better trained and equipped soldiers. The Argentine junta thought that Chile (which was allied with the US and the UK and had a long history of border conflicts with Argentina) would take advantage of the Falklands conflict and invade southern Patagonia, so the best-equipped and best-trained Argentine soldiers remained on the border with Chile.
Argentina could have won this war if things had gone in their favor, such as if their bombs actually worked and blew up Royal Navy ships, instead of simply not working. They received support from practically all of Latin America + Caribbean nations such as Guyana, and even Cuba and Nicaragua gave money and weapons to Argentina. The same happened with Libya. Venezuela, Guatemala and Brazil, who were close to the Junta, said they would send soldiers to help, but the Junta refused, probably fearing that the US would intervene in support of the UK and because the UK was threatening to bomb Buenos Aires.
Right? Everything in the deck was stacked in favour of Argentina here but the UK successfully played it in a way that made them hesitate, fuck up their decisions, and ultimately lose. Call it hubris and luck or whatever but the UK executed a plan in a conflict it absolutely should not have won that worked very very well.
Scaring argentina into inaction and poor decisions is as much a part of winning the conflict as the material ships and men that were sent.
holy shit i knew Argentina's deployment to the falklands was shit, i thought it was reflective of the junta's terrible management & the whole military was like that. they had better troops and material aid and they just didn't use them ??? 
ridiculous
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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.
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.
Napoleon going 
, lamenting not facing this decrepit version of Britain
Okay why invest in anti-ship missiles when you can count on the Royal Navy smashing each other in open waters?
Britania shits the waves 
Shame they haven't dislodged some rusty rocket detonator
Oh not just ships, warships. That is very embarrassing.
LMAO. Critical support for incompetent royal Navy sailors
HMS Bangor is named after the oldest city in Wales. So not quite as absurd a name as whatever the fuck Chiddingfold is.
Death to the UK
Good.
Britain as a country has basically become an episode of Top Gear.
Ambitious, but rubbish.
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2 UK ships collided with eachother in Bahrain
HMS Chiddingfold and HMS Bangor.
sex bum guys worldwide in shambles
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the Evershidding
From the video the ship that was backing up looks like it was going pretty fast and if the ship they hit wasn't there they look like they'd have hit the wharf instead. What were they doing?
🎶Fooool Brittania, please sink beneath the waves 🎶
BIIIIG lol
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