Current Affairs The Royal Navy….

[Kurt.]

He'll be on later blaming the EU or making up other guff to excuse his beloved tories

*checks closing time and orders popcorn

 

[peteblue]

I blame the EU and other guff…….

 

[peteblue]

This is the way to motivate and develop senior officers…not…

Telegraph…

“The Royal Navy has been forced to use LinkedIn to advertise for a Rear-Admiral to be responsible for the nation’s nuclear deterrent amid a growing recruitment crisis.

No serving sailors are suitable to replace Rear-Admiral Simon Asquith, the current Director of Submarines, and the Navy has turned to the professional networking site to find his successor.

Defence sources told The Telegraph they hoped to attract a retired officer who commanded a submarine during their naval career to the £150,000-a-year, two-star position.

The advertisement says candidates must be a member of the reserves or have previously served in the regular forces and, if chosen, will be responsible for “highly classified stealth, elite operations and Trident, our nuclear deterrent”.

 

[Lapeno77]

Thread on the current state of the RN.

 

[Kurt.]

This is the way to motivate and develop senior officers…not…

Telegraph…

“The Royal Navy has been forced to use LinkedIn to advertise for a Rear-Admiral to be responsible for the nation’s nuclear deterrent amid a growing recruitment crisis.

No serving sailors are suitable to replace Rear-Admiral Simon Asquith, the current Director of Submarines, and the Navy has turned to the professional networking site to find his successor.

Defence sources told The Telegraph they hoped to attract a retired officer who commanded a submarine during their naval career to the £150,000-a-year, two-star position.

The advertisement says candidates must be a member of the reserves or have previously served in the regular forces and, if chosen, will be responsible for “highly classified stealth, elite operations and Trident, our nuclear deterrent”.

Gove or Hancock will probably get the job

 

[Xizor]

Thread on the current state of the RN.

Imagine being the poor Type 45 that looked at your sister ships called Daring, Defender, Dragon, Diamond and Dauntless, and you end up as... Duncan.

Also where did all the cool ship names go? Victory (I'm aware that's still a commissioned Naval vessel), Indefatigable, Leviathan, Conquerer, Colossus, Revenge, Thunderer, so on. Is it those damn Wokies to blame again? Is the Navy too Woke to want violent-sounding ship names now?

Gove or Hancock will probably get the job

Perhaps it's one we'll have to outsource to a foreigner?

 

[Wizard]

Imagine being the poor Type 45 that looked at your sister ships called Daring, Defender, Dragon, Diamond and Dauntless, and you end up as... Duncan.

Also where did all the cool ship names go? Victory (I'm aware that's still a commissioned Naval vessel), Indefatigable, Leviathan, Conquerer, Colossus, Revenge, Thunderer, so on. Is it those damn Wokies to blame again? Is the Navy too Woke to want violent-sounding ship names now?



Perhaps it's one we'll have to outsource to a foreigner?

Duncan is named after Big Dunc. It doesn’t have any guns, it just rams head first into other boats and takes them out

 

[Kurt.]

Imagine being the poor Type 45 that looked at your sister ships called Daring, Defender, Dragon, Diamond and Dauntless, and you end up as... Duncan.

Also where did all the cool ship names go? Victory (I'm aware that's still a commissioned Naval vessel), Indefatigable, Leviathan, Conquerer, Colossus, Revenge, Thunderer, so on. Is it those damn Wokies to blame again? Is the Navy too Woke to want violent-sounding ship names now?



Perhaps it's one we'll have to outsource to a foreigner?

Wow …. Imagine this thread exploding if that was to happen

 

[roydo]

Duncan is named after Big Dunc. It doesn’t have any guns, it just rams head first into other boats and takes them out

Makes you wonder what HMS Trent does.

 

[Goat]

Imagine being the poor Type 45 that looked at your sister ships called Daring, Defender, Dragon, Diamond and Dauntless, and you end up as... Duncan.

Also where did all the cool ship names go? Victory (I'm aware that's still a commissioned Naval vessel), Indefatigable, Leviathan, Conquerer, Colossus, Revenge, Thunderer, so on. Is it those damn Wokies to blame again? Is the Navy too Woke to want violent-sounding ship names now?



Perhaps it's one we'll have to outsource to a foreigner?

The Sub names are better.

 

[Lapeno77]

Imagine being the poor Type 45 that looked at your sister ships called Daring, Defender, Dragon, Diamond and Dauntless, and you end up as... Duncan.

Also where did all the cool ship names go? Victory (I'm aware that's still a commissioned Naval vessel), Indefatigable, Leviathan, Conquerer, Colossus, Revenge, Thunderer, so on. Is it those damn Wokies to blame again? Is the Navy too Woke to want violent-sounding ship names now?



Perhaps it's one we'll have to outsource to a foreigner?

Yeah but Duncan didn't have to spend time in Birkenhead, so there is that.

And I think the cool names began and end with Warspite

 

[roydo]

The Sub names are better.

And Clyde is very well protected. Good to know.

 

[Goat]

And Clyde is very well protected. Good to know.

Can you guess where the 1st Strike will hit?

 

[Xizor]

Duncan is named after Big Dunc. It doesn’t have any guns, it just rams head first into other boats and takes them out

Clearly forgot which part of the internet I was posting in!

Can you guess where the 1st Strike will hit?

I've been to Glasgow, are you sure the war hasn't started already?

 

[roydo]

Can you guess where the 1st Strike will hit?

Being serious? If so, if a strike from Vlad was likely, any sea worthy subs will be underwater, and the nuke ones will both be armed and ready. And somewhere.

First strike would be the Pentagon, followed by GCHQ anyrate.

The GCHQ one would knacker me, but what can you do?