Originally Posted by AIR FILTER

No disrespect, HMS Dauntless may be able to single handedly take on the whole of South America's military hardware on paper, but could she survive a night time crack Commando raid of company strength??

If this ship fell into the wrong hands ... The establishment would drown in their own sweat.

I think you need to clean your Filter as there doesn't seem to be enough Air getting in !!

Originally Posted by jimmys_best_mate

My big worry is Killer Whales with oxyacetelene torches. If a couple of them get close to the hull then the pride of the Royal Navy's going to go down without a fight.

Have the MOD thought of that? Have they? I don't see any anti-orca weaponary on board. Do you? Exactly.

Already deployed in anger, albeit against an annoying shark during naval diving operations. Two 1lb (454g of TNT) scare charges connected with a bight of rope and dropped to straddle the beast. Buy me a pint sometime and I'll tell you the whole gory story.

Originally Posted by Ravers

As a highly trained weapons engineer, I'm privy to certain sensitive info.

All I want to know is will it tip over if driven too close to the shore?

Originally Posted by instinct

And even if the crack red shirt wearing commando team failed then they could obviously just fire a photon torpedo at her as the argies abviously used the flipping enterprise to beam aboard...

Of course they will fail - because Starfleet still hasn't mastered "beam down spread out and facing in different directions", they always arrive "in shot" with all of them facing the camera...

Originally Posted by Dunservin

Already deployed in anger, albeit against an annoying shark during naval diving operations. Two 1lb (454g of TNT) scare charges connected with a bight of rope and dropped to straddle the beast. Buy me a pint sometime and I'll tell you the whole gory story.

Did that involve a certain Lt B who dropped a charge onto the back of a basking shark. Sharkie then swam under his whaler, detonated and blew said Lt's leg off...

Originally Posted by CigarIsland

3rd actually

ah but it was the first when i posted it!

Originally Posted by sniper_bob

Did that involve a certain Lt B who dropped a charge onto the back of a basking shark. Sharkie then swam under his whaler, detonated and blew said Lt's leg off...

That's the one although he ended up losing both legs.

Originally Posted by Ravers

Are you on drugs?

How the fuck are you going to get a company of 'crack' commandos anywhere near the ship in the first place?

The same way a bunch of not so crack Revolutionary Guards did it in the Straits of Hormuz. Approach in a speed boat , tell them in broken english they are in Argentine territorial waters and demand their surrender ,telling them they will be allowed to keep their MP3's and to phone their families . You never know , it might work .

Originally Posted by velcrostripes

The same way a bunch of not so crack Revolutionary Guards did it in the Straits of Hormuz. Approach in a speed boat , tell them in broken english they are in Argentine territorial waters and demand their surrender ,telling them they will be allowed to keep their MP3's and to phone their families . You never know , it might work .

I think you might have one or two of the facts wrong.

Originally Posted by velcrostripes

The same way a bunch of not so crack Revolutionary Guards did it in the Straits of Hormuz. Approach in a speed boat , tell them in broken english they are in Argentine territorial waters and demand their surrender ,telling them they will be allowed to keep their MP3's and to phone their families . You never know , it might work .

Couple of points...can everyone please stop using the fucking word 'crack' for crack this and crack that - its just doesnt mean anything outside the A-Team as previously posted.

If the revolutionary guard tried to intercept anything greater than the inflatable RN dinghy they did, the result migh have been different.

Also, im pretty sure if the Revolutionary Guard, sorry, dodgy Iranians stopped a RN flagged vessle in the Straights of Hormuz and "tell them in broken english they are in Argentine territorial waters" the RN might have managed to negotiate their own release based on geography.