It's really hard to play "You Are the Ref" without knowing the relative position of both vessels but I don't believe their no VHF hail story for one second. On the whole, I'd… (View Post)

The yacht was under power and the Krivak wasn't apparently. If that were true then Sid and Doris Bonkers would be the "give way" vessel and the Russians would have been "stand on&… (View Post)

Yes, nothing could possibly go wrong with testing hastily cobbled together semi-autonomous weapons systems in one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. (View Post)

I did come away with a degree of social poise and confidence but, frankly, that's been more use when buying and selling cars than any other aspect of my life. (View Post)

Well, if we wanted to start WW3 over this highly convenient incident the we could just plaster the Grigorovich with Paveway IVs from Coningsby Typhoons. The MoD don't need 1p more to defend the … (View Post)