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Don't you just love it when things like this happen!

Post by CJ » Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:16 am

BBC wrote:A group of Somali pirates has been captured after attacking a French navy ship by mistake, apparently thinking it was a harmless cargo vessel.

French military spokesman Admiral Christophe Prazuck said the pirates attacked in skiffs late at night some 500km (310 miles) off the Somali coast.
Pirates hit navy ship 'in error' :hehe:
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Post by klr » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:33 am

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BBC wrote:A group of Somali pirates has been captured after attacking a French navy ship by mistake, apparently thinking it was a harmless cargo vessel.

French military spokesman Admiral Christophe Prazuck said the pirates attacked in skiffs late at night some 500km (310 miles) off the Somali coast.
Pirates hit navy ship 'in error' :hehe:
Damned incompetent pirates. Back to ship recognition class for you lot. :toetap:

EDIT: OK, I watched the video, and it was a supply vessel they attacked, not a warship. Still a major cock-up though. And apparently they did try to attack a French frigate earlier in the year. Mon Dieu! :o
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Post by Feck » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:38 am

french navy it's still a joke . :Erasb:
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Post by CJ » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:40 am

In particular their aircraft carrier which continually breaks down :hehe:
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Post by klr » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:42 am

CJ wrote:In particular their aircraft carrier which continually breaks down :hehe:
At least they have a proper aircraft carrier right now. :whisper:

And guess where the Royal Navy's new carriers are going to be built? :whistle:
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Post by CJ » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:43 am

klr wrote:
CJ wrote:In particular their aircraft carrier which continually breaks down :hehe:
At least they have a proper aircraft carrier right now. :whisper:

And guess where the Royal Navy's new carriers are going to be built? :whistle:
France! :lay:
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Post by klr » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:49 am

CJ wrote:
klr wrote:
CJ wrote:In particular their aircraft carrier which continually breaks down :hehe:
At least they have a proper aircraft carrier right now. :whisper:

And guess where the Royal Navy's new carriers are going to be built? :whistle:
France! :lay:
That's what EU competition law gets you ... :plot:

EDIT: Actually, the ships will be assembled in Rosyth, but from sections built elsewhere, including (possibly) France. IIRC, it was a French-led consortium that won the contract to build them.
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Post by devogue » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:50 am

CJ wrote:
klr wrote:
CJ wrote:In particular their aircraft carrier which continually breaks down :hehe:
At least they have a proper aircraft carrier right now. :whisper:

And guess where the Royal Navy's new carriers are going to be built? :whistle:
France! :lay:
It's sickening, isn't it?

The bastards also got the contract for the Queen Mary 2, just ahead of Harland & Wolff here in Belfast.

I mean for fuck's sake, everyone knows we make practically unsinkable ships here. :shifty:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:55 am

These carriers look very vulnerable to me, especially as the UK is basically broke.

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Post by owtth » Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:30 am

The pirates were even more surprised when the French promptly surrendered.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:33 am

The troops on the supply ship were regular navy if the Frog Fleet is anything like the USN, so the Somalis were outclassed from square one. They brought a knife to a gun fight.
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Post by Deep Sea Isopod » Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:16 pm

owtth wrote:The pirates were even more surprised when the French promptly surrendered.

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Post by Faithfree » Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:24 pm

That must be the first French military victory in history! ;)
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:24 pm

Faithfree wrote:That must be the first French military victory in history! ;)
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