Originally Posted by
tartare
Former firebrand Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating (who is now largely regarded here as an irrelevant, angry old man shouting at clouds) did have a rather amusing take on large surface vessels.“I always say to the American admirals, you know every great battleship went down in the first week at sea in the Second World War, the Bismark, the Tirpitz, the Yamato. I mean Churchill sent the Repulse to Malaysia and it wasn’t their first week at sea but their first conflict and they went down too,” Mr Keating said. “Just like these American carriers are going to go down when a nasty fight starts and I said to this admiral they all sound the same in the end. And he said what do you mean? “Glug, glug, glug, glug!”
Certainly not known for his military brain
Yamato was launched in 1941 fought at Phillipine sea, Leyte Gulf and Samar. Before they sent it on a suicide mission in 1945
Just on a curious note theres a guy on twitter who is south korean, while a bit nationalistic times, he has great information about korean defence developments, procurement and sales. He tweeted an interesting thing
Oh, and according to recent gov data, it has been confirmed that Korea is developing a naval nuclear reactor, but unlike other countries, it is not making it public.
Like WTF you cant tease us like that