Well, I suppose they are, in a way.

Bluh, my phones spellcheck is worse then my computers, you get the point. >.<

Now I'm hungry

It's 1AM here. Even if I watch a show about food I won't get hungry because sleepy overrides it.

"The war's most unusual ship was commissioned in 1945 at a cost of around one million dollars. It was the US Navy's 'Ice Cream Barge' the world's first floating ice cream parlor. It's sole responsibility was to produce ice cream for US sailors in the Pacific region. The barge crew pumped out around 1,500 gallons every hour!"

The RN took the Ice Cream makers out of their US-built ships.

...

Do they have no concept of Moral?!

Come on guys, you've got tea making facilities in your tanks. Why can't you let your navy boys have some ice cream?

Did they at least replace them with tea makers?

The sub boys are okay; the things are moved by props spun by pressurised boiling water; the whole boat is a kettle.

edited 30th Aug '15 11:26:14 AM by InverurieJones

Lol. So your saying we just have to fill the sub with tea and open up that hot water tap :P

Exactly.

An underwater island of tea in an ocean of cold, choppy saltwater.

@ Parable: No, more like bars that sold alcohol, including Grog:

Sadly, my brief stint as a Matelot came only after they got rid of the Rum Ration. Bloody tragic, really.

Good news for the Argentinians. Seems like that spineless... thing, let's say, Jeremy Corbyn wants to grant joint sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. I had some time for him before this stupidity, but not anymore.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/corbyns-idea-of-joint-governance-of-falklands-is-tantamount-to-surrender/ar-AAdKuUO?ocid=spartanntp

Did all our forces personnel that got killed down there die for nothing?

I'd argue the very clear "Nope" opinion of the Falklanders are way more important a deciding factor than that argument.

He want to see if negotiations are possible, I agree that it's bloody stupid and frankly actually doing anything would be an insult to both the soldiers who died, an insult to the people who live on the islands, a violation of the UN charter, a massive breach of human rights.

I love the man domestically, but every time I see his foreign policy I keep getting flashbacks to my uni class where I guy claimed that the US invaded Afghanistan for oil (note, there is no oil in Afghanistan).

The nice thing about Corbyn is that he by all accounts looks like someone who will listen to the actual people on the ground, so hopefully should he win his foreign policy nonsense is going to get trampled all over by the sane people in the party.

Plus the Argentine government would bankrupt the place within a day.

That would be a bad day if all three connected.

re: the Burke and radar signature. It actually is reduced-signature in a lot of ways. It's not stealth, but it looks a lot smaller on radar than it actually is and will be detected at a range more suited to a mid-sized harbor ferry than a 10000-ton warship.

Which is really what all the foreign "stealth" equivalents do anyways. You can't completely hide something the size of a destroyer.

edited 31st Aug '15 12:43:14 AM by Night

True, but I thought they reduced it a lot more. They look a lot more stealthy

Go go go P-8! Nothing short of a miracle is required for us to get it, but it at least means that the P-3 is now more accessible to us...

It's one thing to hide a <150t aircraft from radar, it's another to hide a destroyer that weighs about sixty times as much—and that, unlike an aircraft, will still have to worry about things like salt buildup, oceanwater-related corrosion, and the like.