"Yes Prime Minister" nailed it, there have been 2 test firings of Trident recently, and both failed.

@carmelopappalardo8477

2 ай бұрын

The show foretold the future.

Fun Fact: Frederick Treves, the guy playing the Chief of the Defence Staff, was in the Merchant Navy during WW2. Not only that he was in the THE Malta convoy - Operation Pedestal. His ship was sunk and he spent several hours swimming to Malta. Fortunately for Fred, he was picked up, though his friend died.

@deanstuart8012

2 ай бұрын

Actually he wasn't. He served in the Merchant Navy, not the Royal Navy so was actually a civilian during WWII. He was awarded the BEM for Gallantry during Operation Pedestal, the convoy that saved Malta, in 1942 when he was just 17.

@LordOfLight

2 ай бұрын

@@deanstuart8012 You're right. I misremembered it.

I protest the New Zealand High Commissioner should be given at least 73 hours

@danielnewton7500

2 ай бұрын

and a kiwi

@Narweeboy

2 ай бұрын

NZ is not a real country 😅

@GARDENER42

2 ай бұрын

@@Narweeboy Unlike Emutopia...

@Mantades

2 ай бұрын

Wasn't it called middle-earth or something?

@somethinglikethat2176

Ай бұрын

​@@GARDENER42 we're not real either. The whole Southern Hemisphere is a hoax. Source: I'm not real

That ending was hilarious. Civil service in a nutshell: Is there anything i dont know? - I dont know, because i dont know what you dont know._.

@adrianhudson1116

4 ай бұрын

Its boring and predictable. I bet you love Cadbury ads

@smhorse

3 ай бұрын

I wonder if Donald Rumsfeld plagiarised this for his "Unknown Unknowns" ramble....

@Krannski

2 ай бұрын

​@@adrianhudson1116 ...what are the other kinds of ads that you seem to so strongly prefer?

@somethinglikethat2176

Ай бұрын

​@@smhorse don't quote me on it but I think it's might be an old concept.

The only torpedoes used by a nuclear submarine to sink a surface ship in time of war were WW2 design Mark 8s that sank the ARA General Belgrano in the Falklands War of 1982.

@benx6264

2 ай бұрын

which is appropriate since the ARA General Belgrano was originally the World War II era USS Phoenix (launched in 1938).

@No1sonuk

2 ай бұрын

@@benx6264 Indeed - The Royal Navy succeeded where the Imperial Japanese Navy failed... 😉

@darylcheshire1618

2 ай бұрын

tigerfish

@No1sonuk

2 ай бұрын

@@darylcheshire1618 Nope - two Mark VIII** torpedoes. IIRC, three were fired, but one missed the Belgrano. There was evidence discovered later that one of the escort ships was damaged by the third striking it underwater, but the torpedo didn't explode.

@somethinglikethat2176

Ай бұрын

​​@@No1sonuk it might have been an old Mark 14 kinetic torpedo left over from WW2. Edit: in reference to the third one failing to explode. The US Mark 14 torpedo had an atrocious failure rate.

Talk about aging well...

What he says about Trident is true.

@olenabutriy2403

Ай бұрын

Trident is the name of the official coat of arms of the State of Ukraine. The inventor and developer of Trident was Ukrainian.

Probably better than today

It wasn't a comedy, was it.

i guess the myth of unstoppable russian power has finally come to an end

@kennethadler7380

8 ай бұрын

This takes place during the cold war when the Soviet Union has a giant army

@Samuel-wm1xr

8 ай бұрын

wasn't that in the 1980s Soviet-Afghanistan war?

@vm-my6hg

6 ай бұрын

Those myths helped boost defense budgets

@Philly_Jump_Over_The_Fence

5 ай бұрын

American propaganda created the cold war. Lot of money in manufacturing weapons and munitions. Although they were pretty good at being in a real war with somone most of the time.

@guguigugu

5 ай бұрын

@@Philly_Jump_Over_The_Fencea cold war was preferable to a hot one. it did eventually destroy the Soviet Union, they simply couldnt keep up anymore.

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"That's why that torpedo landed on Sandwich golf course." The writers probably didn't knew that torpedoes are usually under-water weaponry used by submarines, but that makes it even more hilarious: That torpedo would've had to surface (those things rarely do that), fly into the air, over a few miles of land at least and than land on that golf course.

@davidranger4468

4 ай бұрын

The writers probably didnt know that torpedoes are under water weaponry.... ... really? The two writers were both highly intelligent men who I can assure you knew what a torpedo was and how they were used. Both of them were born before the second world war, they would have been brought up on war stories and films. Sandwich golf course is a coastal course, it's right next to the sea, the joke is about a torpedo running aground and blowing up.

@malcolmabram2957

4 ай бұрын

I witnessed the event, and can testify that the new bunker was not man made.

@andrewjones-productions

3 ай бұрын

I think you missed the point. A manufacturer who was disgruntled at losing their contract deliberately exploded the weapon they were manufacturing and if they were only manufacturing torpedoes, then that is what they would use. Anywhere. That is what makes Bernard's point and the skit funny.

@xr6lad

3 ай бұрын

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️. I think EVERYONE knows torpedos are underwater!

@MatthewMakesAU

3 ай бұрын

There is such a thing as an air dropped torpedo

This unforgettable series has all of the hallmarks of a Documentary......it is still up to date. From what one reads in the ToL of the increasingly woke British Army and its quest for "diversity".....and pronouns usage....it wouldn't last more than a few days against the Russians.... Les Griffiths