Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "Drachinifel"
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@stc2828 except they're not even doing that, respectfully dealing with the dead who still lie there first- bones are often found by the scrap metal workers amidst the bits of rusty cut-up metal that're crudely torn from the wrecks, and they're just told by their bosses to keep quiet about it and keep working. As for the matter of the metal-salvaging itself, it doesn't matter how justified or sensible you feel it is, it's still completely illegal and something never done elsewhere to war-graves, ONLY to the ships unfortunate enough to be sunk in East-Asian waters, and around Malaysia in particular, not just with these two British battleships but with WW2 warship wrecks of EVERY nationality, American, Japanese, Dutch, French, Australian, New Zealander, you name it if they sank anywhere near there they've been looted, DOZENS of ships, maybe HUNDREDS by now
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@matthewrobinson4323 and no, sadly 😕 always wanted to but I'm disabled, have glasses, clumsy, slow, not exactly ideal military material unfortunately, and am too old to join now anyway. Got a whole family of servicemen past and present who did join up though ☺ got an uncle who was in the Royal Navy, my Father and Grandfather were RAF, my Mother's Father was in the British Army as were both my Great Grandfathers on my Dad's side, and I've not one but two cousins presently serving in the U.S. Marines no less, long story haha. My Father's Mother's Father was a Knight and a Major-General. Military family, guess I'm the black sheep
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@harrysmith1070 and yep probably so, but since we're playing the 'what if' game already haha? would a much bigger and more heavily-armoured ship like that actually BE affected the same way? Affected like a Type 42 or Type 21 or even something like Belgrano would be, all substantially smaller and thinner-skinned ships, regardless of age? HMS Hood after all, even WITHOUT that refit Drachinifels was talking about and despite what happened to her against Bismarck, was no mere escort or light cruiser but a full-on full-size wartime BATTLECRUISER, a warship DESIGNED to take heavy-calibre surface-to-surface hits in full-on naval battles with other capital ships, in a way no modern destroyer or frigate would be. Is an interesting question isn't it, sure she wasn't designed to take hits from an Excocet (or ANY anti-ship missiles for that matter), but the Excocet wasn't designed to sink stuff like her either- and HMS Warspite was smaller, just as old and DID survive a direct hit by a Fritz-X missile in WW2
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@matthewrobinson4323 Eh? I meant HOLLAND was the Republic being defeated by a NON-republic not the other way round? but ok if you want to get into historic examples fully how about this one, Julius Caesar versus Pompey Magnus and The Senate in Ancient Rome. Corrupt and debauched though they may have been they WERE a damn republic, one of the ORIGINAL republics built on the Greek model, and led into battle by Pompey The Great no less, but defeated by a single all-conquering military man with aristocratic background- and with a vision; a man who wished to sweep away the old order, put a new one in it's place and make himself dictator for life, much like the later kings, kaisers and emperors he would inspire- and who, briefly, SUCCEEDED. Before he did though they probably arrogantly sneered at him for daring to put himself up against their oh-so-mighty republic, believed they could crush Caesar like an insect- they were wrong
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