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Posted on 01/06/2012 4:08:44 PM PST by yank in the UK
Royal Oak?
The Royal Oak, by U-47, on 14 Octobere, 1939.
Will this be us in ten years?
Yes, that has to have been one of the greatest military exploits of all time even if he was a German. To top it all off, he escaped afterwards.
I saw your tagline: “Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.”
Your part about minerats and bayonets leads me to this short story:
I picked up a great knife from Pakistan a few weeks ago, and I was surprised by the workmanship. The edge was honed well, the steel was annealed properly and the weight was great. I consider it close in workmanship and quality to the Texas Bowie knife.
There’s a few pits in the steel toward the hilt, but I figure the blacksmith was in a hurry to avoid detection.(He’s probably firing gun barrels, too.) Nonetheless, I’m noticing some great quality knives coming out of Pakistan. These boys know what they’re doing.
A modern Destroyer is hardly the same as a “tin can” from WW2. They are bigger than ships previously classified as cruisers and have extensive capabilities. Still, to be impressive show of force, you need more than just one. A battle group that can defend itself against anything the Iranians can throw at it and then rain destruction on them at will would be better.
Eurofighter Typhoon.
Doesn't the Royal Navy have SSBNs? With Trident missiles?
5.56mm
What about Dearborn, Mich.?
Twin engines, canards ahead of cockpit: Eurofighter Typhoon
I hope you enjoy your knife, but I don't find the martial skills of the increasingly Islamist and nuclear armed Pakistan reassuring.
Actually this is a photo of the H.M.S Barham torpedoed off the coast of Egypt in Nov. of 1941 by the U-331 commanded by one capt. Freiherr von Tiesenhausen. The ship listed to starboard a few minutes after being hit and the main magazine blew up taking a lot of her crew with her. Poor blighters.
This ship is NOT the largest in the Royal Navy, it is simply the most advanced. Britain still has an aircraft carrier, with two more currently being built.
Britain was still last year able to send a sizeable naval task force to the Libyan coast, and in fact did NOT deploy most of ‘Task Force Cougar’. Tales of the Royal Navy’s and Britain’s death, to paraphrase your great Mr Twain, have been exaggerated.
HMS Hood was laid down before Jutland, and named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724-1816) one of the Royal Navy's best Admirals during the Napoleonic Wars and the earlier American colony unpleasantness. He correctly called Comte De Grasse's intentions before Fort Royal and if he had been the ranking admiral in the Americas, you might be drinking tea and eating kippers to this day.
Jutland's Hood was his descendant.
I have always been a fan of the United Kingdom. That is why it bothers me so much to see the clear decline.
Yes they are still a good ally and a bad enemy but will probably never be a world power again.
I am sure I read somewhere that the UK used up nearly all their ordinance of some types during that ill advised conflict. I can’t really criticize Britannia too much tho as we were involved too.
That’ll teach me to take at face value anything shown on the Military Channel.
Thanks for the clarification. Prayers up for those who met such a terrible end in service to their country, regardless of the vessel they served on.
Ron Paul and Barack Obama’s vision for us.
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