Royal Navy scrambles destroyer to challenge Russian warship off UK coast

[MHz]

We could always purchase a S-400 system to protect the skies from Russian aircraft and those hypersonic cruise missiles beat a ski-doo carrying a crossbow with flaming arrows.

Our navy is no brighter than the ones we get our training from, sad to say but there it is.

USS Montana - YouTube

The planes still have to make it there and we'd still want the water to be liquid by the time it arrived to dump it on the enemy.

I'm thinking one large ice-cube would do more damage than a few (well placed) 'snowflakes'.

 

[Machjo]

We could always purchase a S-400 system to protect the skies from Russian aircraft and those hypersonic cruise missiles beat a ski-doo carrying a crossbow with flaming arrows.

Our navy is no brighter than the ones we get our training from, sad to say but there it is.

USS Montana - YouTube


I'm thinking one large ice-cube would do more damage than a few (well placed) 'snowflakes'.

Good point.

I was thinking more in terms of if it were still in watery form it could freeze the enemy solid once it splashed. Aim for their weapon system and they couldn't fire back or worse yet the jammed system would backfire.

 

[MHz]

I didn't take that into account. Since all water bombers are still prop driven I guess the whole crew would rush onto the deck to see where/what all the noise was.

 

[Machjo]

I didn't take that into account. Since all water bombers are still prop driven I guess the whole crew would rush onto the deck to see where/what all the noise was.

That's the genius of it all. At first they couldn't immagine that Canada would send something like that to defend itself. As the plane got closer it would just radio in that it's just the polite Canadians coming to greet their Russian friends with a fly-by and then... splash!

 

[MHz]

Isn't that what Paul Bunion said to the merchant who sold him the chaiinsaw and he brought it back saying it was slower than his axe and then the shop keeper started it up and Paul said, "What's that noise?"

Is it wise to spell out the whole plan on a social network?

 

[mentalfloss]

Reads OP.

 

[MHz]

 

[BaalsTears]

Why didn't the British use aircraft to drop naval mines in the path of the Russian ship?

 

[Goober]

So are you saying the Canadians would be able to defeat a heavily armed flotilla of Russian warships, or a flotilla of eight British Type 45 destroyers and six Type 23 frigates, armed with nothing more than 15 lightly armed warships and a few fishery protection vessels?

Yep- we would offer decent food, lodging and landed immigrant status. They would surrender.

 

[Nuggler]

No; we keep our focus on the national debt, not on how many ships we have.

And it's right the hell up there where we can see it.

 

[Spade]

The British should use their secret weapon - loose lips.

According to ww2 propagandists in Old Blighty, "Loose lips sink ships."

 

[taxslave]

do you think britain's naval commanders are so stupid as to leave britain with one ship which to defend it at that moment in time if there were other ships around to do that as well?

yes.

So are you saying the Canadians would be able to defeat a heavily armed flotilla of Russian warships, or a flotilla of eight British Type 45 destroyers and six Type 23 frigates, armed with nothing more than 15 lightly armed warships and a few fishery protection vessels?

For the most part there is no place that once landed they could head inland. Especially on the North and West coasts. In the few places they could land the greenies would be there protesting the nuclear ships in Canadian waters. We simply let them fight it out and eliminate the winner.

 

[Goober]

The British should use their secret weapon - loose lips.

According to ww2 propagandists in Old Blighty, "Loose lips sink ships."

The bullshxt sinks ships. Gotcha.

 

[Machjo]

And it's right the hell up there where we can see it.

True enough. We don't need to contribute even more to it.

 

[lone wolf]

Meh.... They were attempting to lure out Nessie.

 

[Blackleaf]

no one will want to invade the UK anymore.

That certainly IS good news.

Yep- we would offer decent food, lodging and landed immigrant status. They would surrender.

And we would blow them out of the water. We're obviously tougher than you are.

But didn't you know, Capn? Growing the national debt is part of the UK's national defense strategy: Strengthen the navy as long as someone might want to invade, and keep doing so until bankruptcy, after which no one will want to invade.

Brilliant strategy, don't you think?

Canada's national debt is 66% of GDP, so I don't know what you're crowing about. Instead of concentrating on other countries' national debts you had better start finding a way to reduce your burgeoning national debt, and pronto. Britain's economy is starting to grow and recover from recession (thanks to our Tory Government and the necessary cuts they have had to make - including to the military, which is still the best in the world - to cut the debt that the LEFT got us in) and our manufacturing sector is forecast to grow quicker than any other European country's this year, whilst Canada's economy is starting to enter a downturn. 2014 looks much brighter for Britain's economy than Canada's.

 

[taxslave]

So you keep telling us. Could be why you don't have any war ships that are sea worthy.

 

[captain morgan]

So you keep telling us. Could be why you don't have any war ships that are sea worthy.

The reason has to do with the crushing debt to GDP ratio in the UK

Put simply, they can't afford to float their fleet of garbage scows and rust buckets any longer

 

[Blackleaf]

Put simply, they can't afford to float their fleet of garbage scows and rust buckets any longer

Rust buckets? You mean like all the new Daring-class destroyers, Astute-class hunter-killer submarines, Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers and, soon, Type 26 frigates that are being built?

 

[Cliffy]

The reason has to do with the crushing debt to GDP ratio in the UK

Put simply, they can't afford to float their fleet of garbage scows and rust buckets any longer

Well look at that. Seems the dept has more than doubled under Blackheads Toy government. My, My.