Latakia - The Israeli Navy Annihilates the Syrian Navy, 1973 - Animated

[@TheOperationsRoom]

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[@AlexeiLjanej]

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[@SgtScreamD68]

I ordered some years ago and love them. Sadly they don't ship to Australia anymore. Shame really. Some really cool additions they have!!!

[@thegreatskinkpriest8104]

He always sounds so dead during the ad reads lmao

[@virgoliciou5]

Because the world needs more guns for children to play with. Be careful who you accept sponsorship from.

[@Rysander1]

So the same Styx missile that had devastated the Pakistani navy 2 years before had scored 0 hits against the Isrealis. ECM makes a huge difference.

[@BruhMomentPatrick]

Shows how a technological advantage wins wars

[@surferperson2587]

True, Pakistani vessels lacks ECM equipment just like Syrians & Indians vessels.

[@dfgdfg_]

Video shows some boats used only chaff effectively?

[@murmenaattori6]

​@@dfgdfg_The animation does not perfectly simulate the maneuvers that occurred. Not possible to know wether it was the range, conditions, smoke and chaff or the electronic warfare system which had the most impact.

[@jackbloomer1334]

Syrians probably didn't have the means to maintain the missles

[@maryambintghassani2341]

A moment of silence for the death of coastal artillery, which had gallantly made coasts unsafe for shipping for 500 years, and now couldn't score a single hit and was basically ignored.

[@SpaceShipDee]

F

[@SkywalkerExpress]

They need a massive concentration of artillery barrage and proper guiding/tracking system to catch those Israeli FACs maneuvering at 40knots.

[@100500daniel]

Coastal artillery is what kept the Israelis away from Syria's shore's, but don't expect old unguided artillery fired by guys with only 3 weeks of training to hit a moving target a couple of kilometers away.

[@GoatPopsicle]

@@100500daniel bad training, of multiple batteries of guns, is a horrible excuse for the radar-assisted coastal artillery still being “Spray & Pray” ineffective. Worrying about an unlucky hit from artillery, is quite different to the complete respect both sides towards the other’s guided munitions.

[@illusions4559]

I am so facinated with naval combat in the 70s, its almost terrifying how vulnerable some of the ships are to missile attacks

[@DL-ij7tf]

I kind of worry about that now given how much money and faith has been placed in very visible aircraft carriers. Does any ship have adequate defense against supersonic missiles, stealth drones, and weapons fired from space (which if it isn't already a thing, it will be soon)

[@noname-wo9yy]

​@DL-ij7tf I guess the problem now had been around for a long time, so they have more time to solve it. Space born threats are actually easier to deal with as the radars and interceptors have more warning and a better environment to work in then sea skimming missiles.

[@b.elzebub9252]

Yeah. But then again, a cook shot down a missile with a machine-gun. So, you know, there's that.

[@lazyman7505]

The same applies to all modern ships as well, there is no realistic way to armor up against modern missiles so any hit is potentially fatal one. Also, modern ships are so stuffed with electronics and other important bits that any hit is at least mission kill. The exception being carriers due to their size.

[@DL-ij7tf]

@@lazyman7505 Yeah I'm more than happy to be wrong but I really think we're suffering big time from the "planned for the last war" effect. Remember when the French rode into the MG08 machine gun barrages of WWI wearing a plumed sheet metal helmet and cuirass? The rate, not just the extent, of technology increases over time so I worry the problem is even bigger now. Weapons always ahead of the tactics and the attacker has the advantage because they can see the defense first.

[@rpk675]

Releasing the Intel Report BEFORE the main channel video is honestly a much better system than uploading them at the same time. The Intel Report builds anticipation really well.

[@TheOperationsRoom]

Thanks for the feedback 👍

[@sage5296]

I agree, especially given the chronological order of the two videos’ events in this case

[@Smytjf11]

Wait, what's the intel report?

[@nahui5111]

@@Smytjf11 Sister channel that covers historical background and context

[@astartesfanboy5294]

@@TheOperationsRoom I agree with that, either way though its a great video. One thing ive noticed is that the soviet designed craft never seem to have chaff or CIWS, there never seems to be defenses against the harpoons, or well gabriels fired against them.

[@SaintOneesan]

I hope that cook got a medal for intercepting that anti-ship missile.

[@atomic_wait]

Reminds me of that 'I'm the cook 😎' meme

[@Matt-xc6sp]

@@atomic_wait I guess you could say the missile… wasn’t kosher. YEEAAAHH 😎

[@mcflyingfury]

@@Matt-xc6spXDDDD

[@malign3158]

“Let him shoot. LET HIM SHOOT!!” - the Lt CMDR talking about the cook, probably

[@skyden24195]

The cook was probably Steven Segal.

[@marvinm8343]

Must've been extremely demoralizing for the Syrians to learn that their anti-ship missile was defeated by a cook with a machinegun. Hope the Israelis named their CIWS after that cook.

[@joelellis7035]

I bet no one complained about that cook's meals after that.

[@Born_Yashish]

Not the last time a cook saved the day. In 1987, in the dead of night, two PLO infiltrated Israel from Lebanon using gliders. They managed to sneak into a military base and opened fire at unsuspecting soldiers in the barracks. It was the cook that ran out of the kitchen and gunned down the infiltrators, later himself succumbing to his wounds.

[@squeaky206]

​@@joelellis7035Cooks, along with other logistics personnel are mostly revered in any branch of armed service regardless of nation.

[@mohamadalakhras9750]

​@@Born_Yashishwhat a hero

[@benwilliams5236]

In the movie Under Siege, Steven Segal was "just a cook."

[@EroPantherH]

Damn bro, those merchant ships were literally in the middle of a missile duel.

[@Matt-xc6sp]

@@mustang1912unfounded conspiracy nonsense? In a video about Israel?!

[@Summercamp1sland]

@@mustang1912lmao

[@jji7667]

@@mustang1912haha we got a salty Syrian over here

[@davidnguyen1496]

@@mustang1912your new shipment of pure Ugandan copium have arrived

[@Ronald98]

​@@jimmersion3808Just like your army who lost to sheep herders and peasants? 😂

[@NATO32Nations]

Other amazing video from one of KZbin’s best history animators. Will always be a fan.

[@housemana]

one of* homie, you can put ur whiteknight sword down now@CL-ie5fz

[@deruta37]

@CL-ie5fzone of

[@ForsakenLegionClan]

This channel is too good. I discovered it 2 months ago and had to take a six week break because i had binged so much content over a few days 😅

[@EchosTackyTiki]

A cook picking up a weapon in the middle of an engagement is one of the most dangerous things you could ever see on the battlefield. Just ask Richard the Lionheart.

[@malign3158]

“Let him shoot. LET HIM SHOOT!!” - the Lt CMDR talking about the cook, probably

[@KalashVodka175]

The crewmen of that syrian OSA Class had some balls on them to face an entire fleet alone to cover the retreat of the rest of the fleet

[@itamars2]

yes, they did and also the had twice the effective missile rage.

[@SkywalkerExpress]

They probably only detecting two Israeli boat.

[@itamars2]

highly unlikely. OSA class had about 3 different radar systems some of them for over-the-horizon targeting and should have detected at least at missile range. @@SkywalkerExpress

[@leovin00]

Actual gigachad taking down a missile with a machine gun

[@Paveway-chan]

It's like jeeps fighting with anti-tank missiles 😆

[@sid2112]

As a proud Jeep owner (is there any other kind?) I think I can take em! kidding of course :)-

[@sgtmind2496]

Eggshells with sledgehammers

[@retardmoguss]

I think you can take it if your jeep has a blowout panel @@sid2112

[@cr0sad3r70]

Glass cannons VS Glass cannons

[@bigsarge2085]

Your documentaries always cover the most incredible actions.

[@lagboi4539]

Operations Room back again with another classic

[@crocrox2273]

@201

[@jerrydabear7724]

this brings me back to the time last year when me and my fellow canadian air force cadets watched your videos on a projector in cold lake air force base. Ah the memories.

[@hannibalb8276]

Props to that cook that manned the mounted machine gun and took out that incoming missile. Probably a highlight of his life.

[@3pleblow]

What an amazingly detailed mini documentary.

[@dougmasters4579]

There was some great battles in this war, particularly tank ones - Battle of Sinai/Chinese Farm, Valley of Tears, and the Israeli tanks crossing the Suez. This war was intense.

[@Sivalente1]

I got to attend Avigdor Kahalani talking about his experience during the battle of the valley of tears, while standing on the hill where he did a lot of the fighting from. What a crazy battle.

[@dougmasters4579]

@@Sivalente1 That guy's a legend. Almost burned to death in his tank in the Six Day War, then back for more in the Yom Kippor war. Very brave men fought in this war.

[@gabrieljoseph6310]

Kahalani is a hero of Israel@@Sivalente1

[@Noe-gj9mw]

Following the Israeli military battles and opperations are facinating for 2 reasons: 1. They seem to always do so well and have genius stratery 2. Because they are such a small country with only a handful of boats, planes bases etc. following along is so much easier, and makes victories feel so much more significant, unlike with the US for example where it feels like they just have an endless supply of everything and so things feel less meaningful

[@theprogressivecynic2407]

Yeah, I like their military doctrines significantly more than I like ours. We (the US) have a much higher tolerance for losses than they do. Part of this is because we have FAR more people (their population is just a little larger than New York City's), and so don't have to worry about attrition as much, but part of it is also their culture. In the US, the military is typically filled with lower and working class kids, with few political and economic elites sending their kids to war. Conversely, in Israel, every politician and business leader knows that their kid may be serving when things hit the fan, and so they push for the best training/equipment and most effective use of tactics. Basically, our elites know that it's likely somebody else's family who will be fighting, while their elites know that it might be their family members fighting. If we were to adopt their ethos here, I think that we would be significantly less likely to enter into stupid wars.

[@lucamantova3070]

Unlikely, BB’s own son is not serving actively. Elites remain the elites…

[@alonraigorodetsky1803]

Fascinating how battle hardened Israel is in the sea, air and ground. Almost always achieving phenomenal success

[@itsawoodchuck4330]

Much of it is from the worlds foremost superpower giving them most of its tech and enormous sums of aid both monetary and military. They also were close with the Soviet Union and has access to much of their tech as well. Compare that to their opponents who were massively outgunned with tech, intelligence, tactics, diplomacy/international politics etc etc. The Israelis had nearly ever advantage a nation can have in a war by a large margin, except for direct fighting manpower, their industrial output was greatly bolstered by the West to the point that they may as well had a much larger civilian population to support them making their adversaries larger populations a moot point when it comes to manufacturing.

[@alonraigorodetsky1803]

@@itsawoodchuck4330 not really. Ever since Israel showed the willingness to become a imperialist state rather than a communist state the relationship between the USSR and Israel were pretty bad and reached an all time low in 1970 when the USSR sent Soviet pilots to "teach Egypt" on how to fight Israel.

[@gabrieljoseph6310]

@@alonraigorodetsky1803 On July 20 1970, there was a dogfight between Soviet pilots and Israelis the result was 5-0. Israeli pilots shot down 5 fighter jets in 3 minutes.(Rimon operation 20)

[@theprogressivecynic2407]

@@alonraigorodetsky1803 They aren't imperialist, just more pro-western (if they were imperialist, it would be VERY bad for Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, because there would be nothing they could do to stop rampant expansion). The USSR hoped that they would be communist, because a lot of the founders had major socialist leanings and it has historically been a left-leaning nation, but they rejected communism in favor of a more capitalist system.

[@liranhassin4141]

@@itsawoodchuck4330 1948-1962 Israel’s military equipment was a hodgepodge of ww2 surplus weapons upgraded by Israel to be somewhat effective against the arab states modern Soviet arms. In the 60s they largely depended on French aircraft and the bulk of their armored corps were still made up of upgraded Shermans, Pattons and British centurions. Again, not a cohesive force and logistically difficult to maintain and wield effectively. None the less they proved superior to their better equipped and larger foes in multiple wars under those conditions. It wasn’t until the middle of the Yom Kippur war in 73 that the US began supplying Israel with arms and financial assistance to procure arms came way after. To state this is the cause of their success against their enemies is false. In fact, the reason Israel began receiving such support from the US is their success at defeating soviet client states so effectively while being at a stark disadvantage both materiel and numerical. Israel also had and still has a home grown military industry that punches way above its weight class. Until recently it wasn’t geared for exports like other western powers but that too has changed in the last 20 or so years.

[@minkymott]

Thank you so much for posting this. I've never seen anyone post a video about the Israeli Navy during the Yom Kippur War. Great video.

[@DK33O]

The coverage of less familiar (in the English speaking world) modern conflicts is one of the best parts of this channel. Also: Closing in on a well-deserved 1 million subs, well done!

[@geordiedog1749]

Following this battle, Royal Navy captains realised that their dream of ramming the enemy ship was finally over!

[@burnstick1380]

* sad Tegetthoff noises *

[@Matt-xc6sp]

Judging by this engagement, if the enemy ship was Syrian they could probably pull it off.

[@jackbloomer1334]

Only when the enemy has no missles left

[@squeaky206]

​@@burnstick1380Imagine if Austria was even more successful against Italy and forced them to give up Milan.

[@livid6972]

Certified Operations Room classic

[@officialxverzusz]

Another Operations Room involving Isreal I'm sure the comments will be full of fellow history enthusiasts who can hold civil discussions!

[@mcarrowtime7095]

Peak comedy

[@B.D.B.]

And don't forget the antisemitic dog whistle regarding the USS Liberty.

[@sammya1970]

@@B.D.B. way to spin those who attack Americans as being victims. vile.

[@tex4763]

@@B.D.B.anti semitism is when you have a problem with Israeli actions

[@B.D.B.]

@@tex4763 When you judge the actions of a certain group differently than you judge the action of other groups, let alone the actions of your own, it's called prejudice. When it's directed at the only Jewish majority county in the whole it stinks of antisemitism. For example, when you have a problem with US forigne aid to Israel, but no issue at all with the other 190-some other recipients, that's antisemitism. When you keep bringing up a friendly fire incident from over 50 years ago, while your own nation is notorious for shooting at it's allies (and civilians), it's prejudice-driven hypocrisy.

[@scottmaclean1248]

The dawn of a new type of naval combat. Another excellent video

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

Love your Arab-Israeli war videos, keep it up

[@Kaiserboo1871]

It’s mostly fun watching how many L’s the Arabs take in any given conflict.

[@louiss2441]

@@Kaiserboo1871 American tries to go one day without racial epithets and thinly-veiled racism

[@TessTickles90]

@@louiss2441yo being straight with you Israel wouldn’t have occupied the West Bank and shit if the Arab didn’t constantly tried to kill them

[@soakupthesunman]

​@@louiss2441😂😂😂😂

[@robertoroberto9798]

@@louiss2441Seeing as how many people want to dunk on Israel for anything, I’ll say this is fair.

[@AccipiterAtricapillus]

Israelis were very good at utilizing what they had creatively. Good tactics and competent crews make the match.

[@louiss2441]

what "they" had, and by that you mean what the Czechoslovak and US Army gave them

[@SnafuWT]

@@louiss2441 only in 1973 did US massively supplied israel. but in 1967 israel was already kicking butts.

[@louiss2441]

@@SnafuWT nope, as I said, Czechoslovak supplies.

[@zombieat]

@@SnafuWTisrael started receiving usaid in 1949 ($1.3B 2023). and since 1951 ($410M 2023) the annual usaid to israel never stopped.

[@SnafuWT]

@@zombieat i said (massively) also, US gives aid to other africa and southeast asian countries lol.

[@MichaelRose87]

Israeli cook - W Syrian navy - L

[@RCAvhstape]

Interesting that this battle started off with old school naval gunnery.

[@RCAvhstape]

That cook who shot down a missile with a machine gun wouldn't happened to be named Casey Ryback, now, would he?

[@shevetlevi2821]

Thanks, I was trying to remember his name.

[@caifora837]

Giga Chad is enough for me!

[@jakemarcus9999]

Wow that’s really exciting story and nice details. Amazing content.

[@dcentral]

We can only imagine the level of capabilities that Israeli navy has today with domestic powerhouse in missile, radar, electronic warfare developments.

[@elijahdeutsch2621]

It’s a very small navy , with tiny ships, but a freaking powerhouse, and a nuclear power.

[@fortusvictus8297]

Interesting to note, I belive this is the first conflict that established the current ROE with EW that offensive electronic warfare measures are not considered an attack if not followed by lethal weapons. Prior it had always been assumed and postured that an EW jamming or spoofing event would be considered an attack same as firing on the ship, in this war Israel jammed every single moving thing they detected, including known civilian ships and aircraft. It became so normalized and no one wanted to escalate so it became de facto knowledge that jamming or spoofing even unknown contacts is not considered an attack.

[@jarredemmanuelaustria9268]

Babe wake up, Operations Room just posted a new video

[@Blitz9H]

Excellent summary. Thank you!

[@hansvonmannschaft9062]

Legend has it that the cook retired and then became a hairdresser in the US...

[@hansvonmannschaft9062]

@@TheBadLieutenant Hehe great catch, Lieutenant! 😂 Have a good one!

[@PresidentOfBepis]

13:11 The quintessence of "Let him cook!"

[@Xsuprio]

Anybody else picturing that cook with a classic chef's hat and butcher knives hanging off his belt, screaming at the top of his lungs as he fires that machine gun?

[@hawk0485]

great stuff as always, I am so glad your channel grew to become so popular, almost one million subs!

[@jerrybennett7856]

Amazing detail. Thank you.

[@ex-665b7]

I love the video!!

[@keithfarrell3370]

Again we have a presentation massively better than any of the big studios can manage

[@BadKarma714]

I heard of the 6 day war I never hear of this. Thank you for the history lesson I love your videos.

[@bigbootros4362]

Yum Kippur 1973 war is definitely worth looking into

[@markhuebner7580]

An excellent historical perspective!

[@natebartels1444]

Could you do an episode on the “Toyota War” between Libya and Chad?

[@bigbootros4362]

👍🏼 💯

[@mikearmstrong8483]

Please, not. I don't want to start reading all the comments from the imbeciles that think you can drive a pickup over land mines at 60 mph and that's fast enough to avoid the explosion.

[@Knuck_Knucks]

Good show! Thanks.

[@darthmater691]

I’d love to see an in depth look at the Battle of Stalingrad or D-Day like you did for Battle of the Bulge and Iwo Jima. I know that’d probably take a while but still cool.

[@nilloc93]

TIKhistory has about the most in depth Stalingrad series out there.

[@wtfserpico]

I miss Syrian Latakia pipe tobacco so much. Another great video. Good work.

[@robloggia]

Do you think that cook still tells the story about how he shot down a guided missle, with unguided bullets? I know I would.

[@jiggsborah7041]

😂😂😂😂😂... I'll bet he's got a tattoo on his arm and everyone knows him

[@canuck_gamer3359]

Boy those people sure don't learn very easily lol. The Israeli Navy came to fight and the Syrian navy came to run lol.

[@burgeryoufoundbehindthegrill]

More like came for a swim

[@nomindz]

Syria won the second battle of Latakia lol

[@TheNavyShark]

@@nomindz The only way Syria and Arab fighters can fight are by hiding behind civilians.

[@sadfrog5787]

​@@nomindz for Arabs, lying is like breathing

[@BarracudaBoy]

We need to talk a bit more about that dead eye cook shooting that missile down!

[@Matt-xc6sp]

The cook made gefilte fish out of that missile.

[@Imugi007]

I was wondering if we were gonna get a OR video after yesterdays Intel Report video! Been waiting for this all day!

[@GoatPopsicle]

These small ships replicated the same game changing threat, as their predecessors armed with the first torpedos.

[@luisbperez368]

Bro, you have made my life hell. After watching your miniature gun advertising, my credit card took a hit. 😂😂😂

[@luisbperez368]

@@GabrielBTzar Yes?

[@The3Lego3Freak]

"Let him cook" just got a whole new meaning

[@SheridanM551]

I like it when the operations room video is on a middle eastern country especially Israel

[@portuabreu]

Is a shame those merchant ships got caught in the middle…

[@aeon_zero]

I think the technical term is war crime

[@shilombaba]

Imagine the guy on the deck of the last merchant vessel in the line, seeing all those missiles flying both ways, being in the middle of a battle, seing the "likes of yours" getting blown up in front of you...

[@carrotsandrunning]

that chef was the real MVP

[@cristianosorio4402]

Obviously your make amazings video of great battles thanks :)

[@anantbeniwal5901]

It's always about the men firing the weapon rather than weapon. Israel use american weapon and perforn well against the arabs who are using russian weapons. India uses mostly Soviet weapon in 70s till 90s . did very well against pakistan who is using state of art american weapons.

[@dannyzero692]

Tactic, strategy, technology and skills all make huge differences in how well something perform. You've got a point.

[@teufelhunden3606]

Phenomenal channel and narration is soothing and captivating 👍

[@CrayogenicDeath]

I was wondering why there was no Ops Room video when The Intel Report put one up. Here we are.. Sunday made!

[@robbabcock_]

Thanks for another great video! ⚔🔥🙌

[@eze8970]

TY 🙏🙏

[@carlmanvers5009]

There's always an determined cook with a machine gun in these battles.

[@ryangonos233]

Battles from the Korean war would be interesting

[@myronalcock4716]

As always, excellent!

[@mustang5132]

Wait, let him cook

[@IndianaDiecastRacing]

the hero of this engagement is clearly the random israeli cook, taking down a missile with a machine gun!

[@Mmouse_]

There's always a bad ass cook....

[@fieldadmiralspartanryseb-8293]

You gotta love how a cook mounted a machine gun and took down a missle like a fucking boss

[@cpt.mystic_stirling]

Any accounts on Syrian defence measures of anti ship missiles during that battle? Or were they more focused on offensive capabilities?

[@mikearmstrong8483]

Syrian Osa craft had ESM but not ECM. They could passively identify emissions to launch OTH, but had no active jamming capability. So, yeah, offensively oriented, at least in terms of EW. The fore & aft twin 30mm turrets with radar fire control did provide some defensive capability, however the Gabriel is a rather small target as ASMs go, definitely smaller than Styx. But they should still have had a better chance at point gun defense than a dude with an MG!

[@don_5283]

Looks like their chief defensive measure was to use neutral shipping as a meat shield.

[@ozymandias7592]

@@don_5283 Eh in 40 years not much has changed, they still use population as human shields

[@schlirf]

Excellent, and elegant, as usual.

[@hillbilly4895]

"no comment" ~ Syrian navy

[@elijahdeutsch2621]

“No survivors” ~ Israeli navy

[@ayotomiwaferanmi7406]

Got to know about this channel from the operations room channel and watched 90% of all their videos...very educating💯

[@kkang2828]

I knew you would make this one someday. Very interesting battle and arguably the most important one post-WW2. Another stellar video!

[@mantia39]

A missile that a ships cook can shoot down with a machine gun AIN'T much of a missile! 😂

[@ajaypal14121]

It depends on training same missile had decimated Pakistani Navy

[@stt5v2002]

Same theme is playing out in Ukraine almost 50 years later. On paper, it appears that the western supported and Soviet / Russian supported forces have similar weaponry. But it turns out that western produced weapons actually launch, reach the target, and destroy it. The other side’s weapons mostly serve to look a bit scary and drain a lot money out of their budgets.

[@canuck_gamer3359]

That's because of the corruption that was rampant in Russia during the communist years. Weapons manufacturers would do anything to get a contract and then produce junk and they're still paying for it all these years later, in more ways than one lol.

[@bobsemple9341]

No sources of course?

[@aarondworshak6689]

​@bobsemple9341 look at the kerch bridge. And the other bridges going to Crimea. Lol. And the "hypersonic" missles that are unstoppable lol. That's a pretty good start. Plus you can look at all the Russian tank turrets on the ground in ukraine

[@bobsemple9341]

@@aarondworshak6689 yet more sources u people can never prove? Why are u people always the same?

[@aarondworshak6689]

@@bobsemple9341 was the kerch bridge not successfully blown up and closed for months? Are there not videos of russian hypersonic missles destroyed by patriot missle systems?

[@MattH-wg7ou]

Israel has always been an expert connoisseur of electromagnetic warfare lol.

[@cavejohnson8665]

there was a table top war game in the 70s based on these engagements. "fast attack boats" I don't think there has been a similar conflict since (missile boat on missile boat largely unsupported) Can anyone think of one? Anything like this happen during the Iran Iraq war?

[@dogsnads5634]

I don't believe one happened in the Iran Iraq war. Iraq mainly relied on air power to prosecute the tanker war. After the massacre of the Iraqi Navy in 1991, mainly at the hands of the Royal Navy Lynx helicopters with Sea Skua missiles (and again in 2003) missile armed fast attack craft went into decline as a concept.

[@Capt_OscarMike]

Another Great Vid!!!

[@shvs2728]

Never been more proud to be Israeli

[@aeon_zero]

2 civilian ships destroyed to provoke the enemy, and you're proud of it?

[@robertoroberto9798]

@@aeon_zeroDestroyed to provoke the enemy? The Syrians used them as shields to prevent Israel from attacking them. If Israel just left because of that, that would make the Arabs do the tactic again and kill more people.

[@mentalmans_6561]

@@robertoroberto9798​​⁠None of you give a flying fuck about the people who died, you just care what side is to blame. Leave the hate politics and fearmongering to the fat pigs in the war room and go live your lives.

[@masterimbecile]

13:09 that cook is the f-int GOAT

[@dvtye3378]

Who would win? A Soviet designed anti-ship missile... or One Israeli cook with a mounted machine gun...

[@florence9606]

I wonder how many of those Greek and Japanese crew got out safely, and if Isreal or Syria paid for the loss of those ships. Merchant shipping is a crazy expensive enterprise...

[@burnstick1380]

*crazy valuable ;) Not sure if anyone paid anything back but also pretty sure that those companies could cope with the loses

[@pahtar7189]

This is why merchant shipping is always insured.

[@sprolyborn2554]

Nope. Israel for some reason seems to be the only country that can get away with stuff like that. There wasn't even an apology for the liberty and nothing was done for the ships and crew here as well. Imagine the political fallout if say France struck merchant ships during a military engagement. Watch me get called "antisemitic" for pointing this out too lmao

[@sniperlocke4416]

@@sprolyborn2554 yeah it’s strange isn’t it…

[@Ben-uv1cb]

@@sprolyborn2554 You mean like what happened all the time during both world wars?

[@dougerrohmer]

So I wonder if the French said: "Yesssss, our boats are brilliant!" or "Damn! They are now sinking our buddies!"

[@brokenbridge6316]

This is a good story to tell. Nice job.

[@JohnClam]

This is exactly why the American military is feared, even tho our numbers are much lower than China or Russia. Technology is king of the battlefield

[@bigbootros4362]

The best armies in history use technology and great leaders and good group morale. As well as a good dose of luck.

[@shaider1982]

Nice, I was trying to find an ops room video detailing how the missile boats hustled out of France were used. 13:14 imagine that, a cook bags a Styx missile👍

[@Western_Hemlock]

The 3 rules of warfare: 1. Do not challenge Russia during Winter 2. Do not challenge Britain at sea 3. Do not challenge Israel

[@bigbootros4362]

😂😂😂 100%

[@leaveme3559]

Japan destroyed Britain in pacific and Malacca if not for the americans Britain would have lost australia india and everything between it

[@SnafuWT]

bruh palestinian militant groups always challenge israel.... albeit with little to no result at all.

[@fieldadmiralspartanryseb-8293]

Britain's dominance at sea is over

[@burgeryoufoundbehindthegrill]

​@fieldadmiralspartanryseb-8293 looks like we can say the same about Russia as well at this point.

[@deruta37]

I do wonder if you will do the case of Zvi Greengold, who for lack of better words, is the tanker version of Cipher from AC Zero

[@jonpato]

credit where it's due: muslims are unbeatable at finding human shields, even at sea.

[@kevaughnramsay9846]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@fretted4life]

This guy is speedrunning coverage of India-Pakistan & Israeli-Arab wars.

[@almasbaibolov1446]

Oh, yeah. Israeli favourite national sport between 1950’s and 1980’s - embarrassing annihilation of Arab forces on ground, in sky and sea.

[@graceneilitz7661]

Its actually a bit embarrassing that Egypt, Jordan, and Syria couldn’t win the 1948 war.

[@almasbaibolov1446]

@@graceneilitz7661 yet, still hilarious for this very day. Especially ever since not a single Arabic state (okay, maybe except Egypt) actually cares about uneasy fate of Palestinians.

[@SnafuWT]

@@graceneilitz7661 and 1967 too. arab coalition got gobsmacked in 6 days by one country LMAO. and that was BEFORE the US supplied israel.

[@titanicisshit1647]

@@almasbaibolov1446 look at descendants of palestinian refugees,they don't care

[@boomgoesdynamite4177]

@@titanicisshit1647 palestinians have a good life outside of arab occupation. Ramallah better then anything in egypt. More poverty in US then in gaza. Pals are billionaires. Arafat's kids live in france.

[@christoffermonikander2200]

Who needs a CIWZ when you can just give the cooks machine guns.