This couple "sheer magic"

During WWII. The US Navy's torpedoes didn't work--they ran deeper than set and often didn't explode at all. The reason was because the torpedoes cost $10,000 (in depression era money) and they didn't have the funds to test the new designs properly. The problem came to a head in 1942 and eventually the Navy brass realized they had a problem. After extensive testing, the problems were rather easily fixed and the sinking rate of enemy ships improved enormously. The more expensive the weapon, the fewer peacetime tests are conducted.

Of course, after the end of the Cold War we know that in fact Western Armies are in fact much superior to Eastern ones. Aside from Russian incompetence in Ukraine, but also in Georgia in 2008 (which they won but should have won more easily), or Chechnya where they lost the first time and backed one guy in a civil war to win the second one; the Gulf War demonstrates conclusively how powerful western style armies and precision weaponry could be. The Chinese revamped their entire military doctrine after the Gulf War, for example. Their army was equipped in many ways worse than the Iraqis who had higher quality Soviet equipment (compared to Chinese stuff which was copies of the last generation of Soviet tech). Neither Russia after '91, Iraq, or the PRC were the Warsaw Pact and USSR though, that was certainly a different beast, but one that nonetheless, recent history shows us, was falling behind NATO where it counts on the modern battlefield.

Великолепни "откачалки"!

Turns out that some any years perhaps decades later, Trident doesn't work

according to all our UK newspapers for the last week....as true then as it is today !

sempre troppo bella e purtroppo mi fa sempre scendere le lacrime

Heinrich Schütz - großartig!

The real joke is that the Russians were just if not more useless than than NATO forces.

Is this not a documentary?

No wonder they are testing weapons now in Ukraine 😂

Trident still doesn’t work … 😂

Just gets better as time passes.

This might get a few more views in the coming days

The UK navy just tried to launch a trident, and it was a dud. The second in a row. The UK has nukes that literally don’t work. Amazing how this old sit con is still current.

...72 Hours

I love the line about the new torpedoes not working, when the British sunk the General Belgrano in the Falklands war they used Mark 8 torpedoes that first entered service in 1927

everyone knew that Trident, Polaris was a waste of time, it would only be used in the event of full scale nuclear war, if the Russian conventional forces did ever attack at this time the only way we would have stopped them was tactical nucs, which would most probably led to use of strategic nucs, and then bye bye everyone been nice knowing you, thankfully the russians also knew this so never attacked.

December 24-én minden barátomnak ezt küldöm karácsonyi üdvözletként.

Perhaps this is why NATO is giving Ukraine the old kit, it's the only stuff that they know works

Не е лесно да си клоун.

The quip about the Kremlin knowing the NATO defense reports before number 10 does makes me wonder: Did anyone in the Kremlin see Yes Minister and what did they think of it?

Torpedoes landing on a golf course are truly a remarkable feat of engineering - usually those kinds of weapons are used by submarines and travel subsurface towards their target: A ship or another submarine.

this kinda tv will never return. not inclusive enough

For those who are a bit confused by certain terms spoken in this video, _Trident_ and _Polaris_ are (or were, in the latter's case) both American submarine-launched nuclear ballistic missiles (SLBMs). During the Cold War, there was an agreement between the US and the UK (the Nassau Agreement, in 1962) according to which the US would sell UGM-27 _Polaris_ SLBMs to the UK to arm its ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), but the British had to provide their own self-made nuclear warheads. This arrangement was renewed when the UK upgraded to the UGM-96 _Trident_ C4 then to the UGM-133 _Trident_ D5 (AKA _Trident II_ ). The Royal Navy's current SSBNs, the _Vanguard_-class subs, still carry the _Trident II_ ...and so shall their planned successors, the _Dreadnoughts_ (ETA sometime in the next decade).

I love Bernard...

Ivan doesn't seem so intimidating now......

I like to think that if the Russians invaded now we would last a bit longer than 72 hours 😅

Bellissima canzone commovente grazie a scritto le parole e la musica

When I saw this series, I thought how funny it was, then I realized how close it was to reality, not so funny.

Ironically enough, the comment Bernard made about only the new torpedoes not working, this was based on an incident in the Falklands where the captain of submarine HMS Conqueror deliberately to use WW2 torpedoes because he knew they worked - those torpedoes went on to send the Belgrano to the bottom in a rather famous incident

Bernard, is there anything else I don’t know? I don’t know Prime Minister, I don’t know what you don’t know.

A mate of mine was in Berlin, his life expectancy was ninety minutes. Ours was between eight and twenty four hours.

I was amused at the characterization of American soldiers as drug-ridden. True, at the end of the Vietnam conflict there was a lot of that going on. But by the time I had arrived in US Army Europe in 1980, virtually all of it was gone --- due to very heavy crackdowns in the meantime. I was in Europe during the time Yes, Prime Minister was being shown on TV for the first time. I don't know if the TV show was meant to refer to an earlier time, or if it was supposed to be current. If current, the characterization of American troops expressed in this episode was wildly wrong. But it was supposed to be funny, so take it with a grain of salt.

Eccezionale non c. E commento

Benissimo 3:02

After 3 years working as a civil servant, its scarily accurate this is when you take away .. some of the jokes

The part about the American troops in Germany being on drugs is very true. I met several (even worked under one), even after 30 years they could still hold 13 contradictory ideas and believe them all to be correct.

It will never stop to amaze me that if you would remove laugh track this would be the most terryfing political drama in the world. No dialogue change, no character change, no ominous music or dark secrets, one small detail and it goes from dark comedy to something that makes house of cards look like preschool.

is that why wagner got to within 200 miles of moscow because they dont work at weekends, except the truck drivers and farmers in their tractors ha

more like russians could not hold for less than a day if invaded

ЧаК?..до ...ВРАГ?

😂❤

So very apt for the Coronation. Don't think Sunak will be passing up the opportunity to discuss issues with the various presidents and Prime Ministers traveling in

just classic :-)

volete sentire la Madonnina irlandese adesso kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4LagIOjjrhqjJo

Absolutely stunning performance of deeply spiritual music

Heinrich schütz konnte wunderbare Sachen komponieren!

Die Posaunen stellen den schofar dar das rituelle widderhorn ,!wunderschön ,

Voix et accompagnement sensationnels ! ! !