"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
I can hear his commander when the captain returns to shore: "You did WHAT???"
That Venezuelan patrol boat looks like it might have been expensive, and was not like the armed speed boats the Iranian "navy" uses (and used to make a ludicrous propaganda video showing them attacking a barge with a wooden mock-up of the USS Nimitz - and the boobs didn't even manage to sink it).
Spiny, this article (Wikipedia, so grab yer salt shaker) doesn't mention a cost per ship, but does mention a 42 million Euro "commission" -- call it $46 million. Assuming a 10% "commission" (probably low), that leads to a total cost of $460 million -- add in the commission, and that's a cool $500 million.
4 ships were built, so that means the good captain just sent a (at least!) $125 million naval vessel to the bottom of the Atlantic.
HAR HAR HARDEE HAR!
For another chuckle ... ... this looks to be a single contract for a single purpose class of vessel. I expect that the design is a common one -- a naval expert I am not, but for $500 million, I don't see any ship builder going through an original design.
More to the point, that Wiki article says:
The final vessel of the class was to have been named after Tamanaco, a 16th-century tribal leader, but in 2013 GC-24 was renamed Comandante eterno Hugo Chávez after the death of the then president. GC-24 was laid down in 2008 under the supervision of Navantia at the Venezuelan National Dams and Shipyards (DIANCA) in Puerto Cabello, was launched in 2014 and began sea trials in April 2018, but Navantia [the contractor building the ships] pulled out of Venezuela in January 2019 before trials were complete.
Pulled out in 2019, en? That's about the same time when Maduro went full on dictator. So, considering that Venezuela is a failed state (no thanks to socialism), there's no way Maduro will be replacing that vessel with anything similar.
HAW HAW HAW!
There's a bit more information about the Venezuelan patrol boat Naiguatá in in this Wiki article, apparently of recent update, to wit:
Naiguatá sank following its purposeful ramming of the cruise liner RCGS Resolute while in international waters on 30 March 2020.[10] According to RCGS Resolute's owner, the Coast Guard ship had ordered the cruise ship to follow it to Isla Margarita, a Venezuelan harbour.[11] Naiguatá sank with RCGS Resolute informing the international Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) of the incident offering assistance. After one hour staying in the area RCGS Resolute was informed through MRCC that assistance was not required as Naiguatá's crew had been rescued by the Venezuelan Navy.[12]
The President of Venezuela accused the captain of the cruise ship of "piracy" and "terrorism,"[13] adding later that he did not rule out that RCGS Resolute was "carrying mercenaries to attack onshore military bases."[14][15] The Venezuelan minister of defence said RCGS Resolute's action was an act of "imperial aggression."[16]
I left in the citations, since there are a lot of them, leading to various media sources in multiple languages. So, apparently, someone put an effort into this article.
I imagine that the commies running Venezuela were thinking about holding the ship for ransom. Or maybe Maduro wanted his own yacht.
But the real snicker comes from one of the sources, an article in the "Curaco Chronicle", where Maduro is quoted as saying:
He [Maduro] then referred to the US military deployment in the western Caribbean, leaving according to him, the Pacific route of most of the drugs from Colombia to the United States. "Venezuela has the world record against drug trafficking," he stressed.
He reiterated the threat: "The Bolivarian Fury is capable of reaching every last corner."
I imagine that something was lost in the Spanish to English translation. But not the incoherence.
In an unverified, but probably true report, a crew member from the Naiguata reported that his ship's Captain contacted the Resolute by radio, and was informed that the Resolute couldn't obey because the Resolute's crew was in the middle of eating tortillas for dinner.
The brave captain, sensing his moment in the history of naval warfare, gave his order to the crew: "Damn the tortillas, full speed ahead!"
He reiterated the threat: "The Bolivarian Fury is capable of reaching every last corner."
I imagine that something was lost in the Spanish to English translation. But not the incoherence.
Coherence is irrelevant when bombast is the operative term.
Sounds like a vacuum cleaner.
Sounds like a parody site that used to mock Kim Jong Il's North Korean propaganda ministry. I forget what it was called, but it was as absurd as The People's Cube.
8 comments:
"penguin-bothering" and "this brazen act of maintenance"
LMAO!
Really funny thread!
I can hear his commander when the captain returns to shore: "You did WHAT???"
That Venezuelan patrol boat looks like it might have been expensive, and was not like the armed speed boats the Iranian "navy" uses (and used to make a ludicrous propaganda video showing them attacking a barge with a wooden mock-up of the USS Nimitz - and the boobs didn't even manage to sink it).
Spiny, this article (Wikipedia, so grab yer salt shaker) doesn't mention a cost per ship, but does mention a 42 million Euro "commission" -- call it $46 million. Assuming a 10% "commission" (probably low), that leads to a total cost of $460 million -- add in the commission, and that's a cool $500 million.
4 ships were built, so that means the good captain just sent a (at least!) $125 million naval vessel to the bottom of the Atlantic.
HAR HAR HARDEE HAR!
For another chuckle ... ... this looks to be a single contract for a single purpose class of vessel. I expect that the design is a common one -- a naval expert I am not, but for $500 million, I don't see any ship builder going through an original design.
More to the point, that Wiki article says:
The final vessel of the class was to have been named after Tamanaco, a 16th-century tribal leader, but in 2013 GC-24 was renamed Comandante eterno Hugo Chávez after the death of the then president. GC-24 was laid down in 2008 under the supervision of Navantia at the Venezuelan National Dams and Shipyards (DIANCA) in Puerto Cabello, was launched in 2014 and began sea trials in April 2018, but Navantia [the contractor building the ships] pulled out of Venezuela in January 2019 before trials were complete.
Pulled out in 2019, en? That's about the same time when Maduro went full on dictator. So, considering that Venezuela is a failed state (no thanks to socialism), there's no way Maduro will be replacing that vessel with anything similar.
HAW HAW HAW!
There's a bit more information about the Venezuelan patrol boat Naiguatá in in this Wiki article, apparently of recent update, to wit:
Naiguatá sank following its purposeful ramming of the cruise liner RCGS Resolute while in international waters on 30 March 2020.[10] According to RCGS Resolute's owner, the Coast Guard ship had ordered the cruise ship to follow it to Isla Margarita, a Venezuelan harbour.[11] Naiguatá sank with RCGS Resolute informing the international Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) of the incident offering assistance. After one hour staying in the area RCGS Resolute was informed through MRCC that assistance was not required as Naiguatá's crew had been rescued by the Venezuelan Navy.[12]
The President of Venezuela accused the captain of the cruise ship of "piracy" and "terrorism,"[13] adding later that he did not rule out that RCGS Resolute was "carrying mercenaries to attack onshore military bases."[14][15] The Venezuelan minister of defence said RCGS Resolute's action was an act of "imperial aggression."[16]
I left in the citations, since there are a lot of them, leading to various media sources in multiple languages. So, apparently, someone put an effort into this article.
I imagine that the commies running Venezuela were thinking about holding the ship for ransom. Or maybe Maduro wanted his own yacht.
But the real snicker comes from one of the sources, an article in the "Curaco Chronicle", where Maduro is quoted as saying:
He [Maduro] then referred to the US military deployment in the western Caribbean, leaving according to him, the Pacific route of most of the drugs from Colombia to the United States. "Venezuela has the world record against drug trafficking," he stressed.
He reiterated the threat: "The Bolivarian Fury is capable of reaching every last corner."
I imagine that something was lost in the Spanish to English translation. But not the incoherence.
"The Bolivarian Fury is capable of reaching every last corner."
Sounds like a vacuum cleaner.
In an unverified, but probably true report, a crew member from the Naiguata reported that his ship's Captain contacted the Resolute by radio, and was informed that the Resolute couldn't obey because the Resolute's crew was in the middle of eating tortillas for dinner.
The brave captain, sensing his moment in the history of naval warfare, gave his order to the crew: "Damn the tortillas, full speed ahead!"
He reiterated the threat: "The Bolivarian Fury is capable of reaching every last corner."
I imagine that something was lost in the Spanish to English translation. But not the incoherence.
Coherence is irrelevant when bombast is the operative term.
Sounds like a vacuum cleaner.
Sounds like a parody site that used to mock Kim Jong Il's North Korean propaganda ministry. I forget what it was called, but it was as absurd as The People's Cube.
If Venezuela only had four of these ships, I look at it as one down, three to go.
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