Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Binkov's Battlegrounds" channel.

  1. 1:35 Those 4 blue islands west of the Norman peninsula should be red because Jersey, Guernsey, Sark and Alderney are British protectorates collectively known as the Channel Islands, we have forces on them and not the French.
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  2. BAE systems is ranked 2nd in the world for defence. Does France have a company in the top 10? No.
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  3. A carrier can only travel as fast as it's slowest escort vessel. No point out-swimming a shark if you also outswim all the people you rely on to protect you from the sharks - you will just end up on your own and get eaten by the next shark.
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  4. Actually no, the Russian carrier is ancient and comparable to the Type 001 - this is the Type 003, completely different. Though you'd know that if you bothered to watch the video.
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  5.  @reserva120  No western European nations are currently slaughtering anyone and haven't done so for a very long time...
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  6.  @f1reguy587  Why did you just derail someone else's thread instead of starting your own?
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  7. US Marines so they are somewhere between a soldier and a proper marine.
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  8. He covered that in the video...
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  9. The Chinese carrier can go anywhere in the world and still be safe, as attacking it would be declaring war on a country that would be near unstoppable were it to transform it's economy into one of total war production.
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  10. He knows a bit more than you, Bob.
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  11. Very ambiguous statement there.
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  12. For revenue obviously.
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  13. 004 will be the first nuclear powered carrier and is set to have it's keel laid down sometime this year.
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  14. Depending how zealous your opponent is morale means nothing, during Rourke's Drift the Zulu's threw 4,000 against 150 Brits and didn't waver. They got their arse kicked but they didn't waver.
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