History, Politics And Current Affairs

You could have had the Type 26 you know. 😉 The USN could not handle the Type 26. It only has 24 missile cells. The RAN has folded, spindled and mutilated the design to bump that to 32, but they’ve had to put more into redesigning it than the USN has put into Constellation. Sounds like it’s time to ...

On the sanitation part, the cooking itself may very well have been carried out under clean conditions, but food was often brought up to the front line trenches in containers previously used for petrol, so chronic dysentery wasn’t unknown in some parts of the line which had new tins that hadn’t yet ...

Is AH ok? I can’t get in for my latest dose of the Malaya thread.

The last 6 months to a year I have noticed a large number of people doing stuff that is not only illegal, but patently stupid (running red lights LONG after the light the other way has gone green, turning the wrong way down a one way street and when confronted with a line of vehicles going the othe...

Funny, but they already paid for that booze. Now they have to pay to store it, and they also have to pay for secure storage to support additional booze purchases from non-American suppliers. Performative idiocy for the masses. Don't know about Manitoba, but in Ontario it's all on sale-or-return, wi...

Funny, but they already paid for that booze. Now they have to pay to store it, and they also have to pay for secure storage to support additional booze purchases from non-American suppliers.

Performative idiocy for the masses.

The hard part isn’t the sinking, it’s the surfacing afterwards.

Wait….the Wolowitz Waste Disposal System is actually the Kozlowski Waste Disposal System, and we’re just now hearing about it?!

.... Going Dutch : Fox - Dennis Leary does a surprisingly spot-on turn as a muy macho US Army cav type who unfortunately unloaded on his superiors on combat cam. His punishment is to take over USAG Stroopendorf, officially described as 'the least important base in the United States Army ", unt...

It's simple. The privateers will find themselves hunted down and boarded by a real warship. Or if they decide they don't want to be boarded they will be hunted down and destroyed by a real warship. Either way their efforts will be short and end VERY badly for them. I don’t think the Mexicans have a...

It's simple. The privateers will find themselves hunted down and boarded by a real warship. Or if they decide they don't want to be boarded they will be hunted down and destroyed by a real warship. Either way their efforts will be short and end VERY badly for them. I don’t think the Mexicans have a...

There’s a thread by Sen. Lee on Twix about issuing Letters of Marque to fight the cartels. The whole "we don't have to worry about International Law, we're the USA" attitude is interesting. What's he going to do when the first boatload of privateers are arrested by the Mexican government ...

There’s a thread by Sen. Lee on Twix about issuing Letters of Marque to fight the cartels.

https://x.com/basedmikelee/status/18839 ... f-8OFJWLmg

So….apparently there’s talk the US may be issuing letters of Marque again.

How does one apply for this? Asking for a friend. And yes, the sloops name will be Antelope.

Die Hard isn't just a Christmas movie, its a Harry Potter Christmas Movie. As has been kicking around on the internet for years.... John McClain and Harry Potter both run around a tower at night avoiding Alan Rickman. Belushi TD To be more accurate, Harry Potter is a Young John McClain Christmas Mo...

Musk reveals that the Tech Bros, obsessed by their narcissistic need to excell, run counter to the interests of the nation. Colour me unsurprised. And lo, the Tech Bros have taken an L in the face of MAGA's essential base. Which is more tribal than propositional. Because Americans be more than a Co...

You’d want to know if special sea duty men were on at that point, and if not why not.

If they were on duty, something very wrong happened with their training. They’re supposed to be hand-picked for situations exactly like this. If they weren’t on duty, why not?

Something similar lead to a Canadian helicopter crash a few years ago. It’s not just NZ.

John Wayne converted a US Navy Minesweeper into a yacht, so a Coast Guard cutter type isn't out of the question. That might be a nice yacht. but I can't see me on it. I saw a missile frigate converted into a mega yacht. Shame they took the guns off. The Onassis yacht Christina was previously an RCN...

You bring the cubs to the boat. Although I don’t like being the delicious soft creamy filling. Makes me feel like Nightwatch and the other people on the HVU.