Robin Hood wrote:Paphitis wrote:Get Real! wrote:Paphitis wrote:Get Real! wrote:To save Paphitis from yet another embarrassing useless thread, I'll post some interesting shots of the newly unveiled bus service of Paris they call... "Le Crocodile"
Oh right! all you blokes have been creaming your pants about the arrival of the Kuznetsof!
some of you have been waiting since 1974 and are old geriatrics now.
I hope you were welcoming to our Coalition ally! Did you take the grand kiddies for a look?
God you're so clueless and stupid....
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That was February 28, 2014! before they entered Syria!
tell them to come now!
Oh and they were only 40 years late.
It was a courtesy visit and the Kuznetsov moored off-shore, maybe it was too big to enter the port?
But the Russian sailors came ashore, in dress uniform! They were impeccably dressed and well behaved because we were in the Mall in Limassol at the time and there were dozens of ratings and officers milling around. We also saw many later when we went into the Old Town. No drunks, no shouting and they were very polite even though none of them appeared to speak English or Greek. I didn't see any French sailors when their carrier was in the docks a couple of weeks ago and you never see British military personnel off base, in uniform. The Russians obviously felt comfortable and that they were welcome on the Island and I believe they will always be welcome.
The Nimitz Class is much bigger Aircraft carrier and far more modern and capable!
Kuznetsov = 61,390 Tonnes, 36 fixed wing, 20 rotary wing
USS Nimitz Class = 106,000 tonnes, 90 fixed wing and 30 rotary
Charles de Gaul = 43,500 tonnes, 32 fixed wing, and 8 rotary
All navies of the world are well behaved and impeccably dressed. Because if you're not, you get your arse smashed.
You get your arse smashed for a little water mark on your shoe.
I actually started off in the Navy and went through Officer school for the Super Seasprite at HMAS Creswell but then was transferred off HMAS Success onto HMAS Kanimbla with another 7 guys and taken to RAAF Williamstown and then to RAAF Point Cook when the Seasprite program got shit-canned with a Royal Parliamentary Commission to boot. It was 2 weeks from pass-out parade. Had to do it all over again. It wasn't fun, and if you were an arse, you paid a very heavy price. One thing I will never forget is when the gates opened at HMAS Creswell and our buses lined up adjacent the parade grounds. Fuck that was an experience in total humiliation, bastardry and bullying. Everyone was shitting themselves as they were sifting through personal belongings in everyone's suitcases, throwing around underwear (even women's g-strings and stuff) and everything. And the screaming and yelling was deafening. That was just the beginning. It was constant fucking with us both mentally and physically too. Some people were even physically assaulted in those days,
And they make a point of getting everyone into trouble at least once. They bloody crushed everyone's spirit, but what they wanted is for the strong to support the weak like a team. That was their bottom line and that's how they bought everyone closer together. But even that had its drawbacks. Whilst they wanted everyone to stick together and support each other, the bloody smart arses would then punish the whole team rather than just one person. There was never a win win with them.
Navy is the most conservative of the services. Most senior officer is always Navy. Prince Philip is NAVY, haven't you noticed? Who btw is the highest ranking officer of the Australian Military.
12 SH-2G Seasprites cost 1.4 billion dollars back in 1993.