The best fishing boat ever!

[TLAM Strike]

Next time on 'The Deadest Catch'...

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9799/b9b86.jpg

Yes that's a fishing boat! :haha:

Note the .50 cal on the bow, the 8 122mm rockets on the bridge, and the ZU-23 flak gun on the stern.

Its a patrol boat used by the Abkhazian Navy. Who also built this gem...
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/2592/4f205.jpg
Yep those are rocket launchers off an aircraft with a .50 cal tacked on. I hope that .50 is remote operated otherwise its gunner is in trouble the moment they fire those rockets... :o

[ETR3(SS)]

:rotfl2:

[frau kaleun]

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/3704f684-d1bb-46c2-8d44-e658d0ee5e96.jpg

I'm trying to FISH HERE DAMMIT!

[Oberon]

:har:

That's some serious fishing tackle :salute::03:

[Jimbuna]

Almost makes them a 'blue water' navy :sunny:

[SteamWake]

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/3704f684-d1bb-46c2-8d44-e658d0ee5e96.jpg

I'm trying to FISH HERE DAMMIT!

Three thumbs up !! :salute:

By the way what are they 'fishing' for?

[TLAM Strike]

Three thumbs up !! :salute:

Hay put your third thumb down in the presence of a lady! :stare:

:03:

[frau kaleun]

Hay put your third thumb down in the presence of a lady! :stare:

:03:

That's no lady, that's Jimbuna! :O:

[Castout]

The Abkhazian patrol boat is heavily armed compared to ours :O:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/KRIWelang.jpg


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1XZMX_E0z5c/SRQk34zVKqI/AAAAAAAAAks/nMvMKhXosIg/s1600-h/KRI+Welang.jpgThey even bothered to name this.......boat...meet KRI Welang

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1XZMX_E0z5c/SRQk34zVKqI/AAAAAAAAAks/nMvMKhXosIg/s1600-h/KRI+Welang.jpgWell they probably do just fine catching foreign fishing boats but to meet another country's navy vessel in this its like saying SHOOT ME, SHOOT ME, NO ME, ME!

:nope:

If only they put some SSM missiles on it then we're talking

[TLAM Strike]

The Abkhazian patrol boat is heavily armed compared to ours :O:

At least you got patrol boats. Most of ours are all laid up or scrapped because the hulls were cracking. :doh:

:-? Yours is still more heavily armed that what we got left...
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8819/uscgsailfishrooseveltis.jpg

[TarJak]

These aren't bad at fishing people out of the sea around northwest Australia:
http://channelnine.9msn.com.au/img/seapatrol3/thumbnails/HMAS_hammersley.jpg

[Castout]

At least you got patrol boats. Most of ours are all laid up or scrapped because the hulls were cracking. :doh:

:-? Yours is still more heavily armed that what we got left...


Only that yours belong to the coast guard and mine to the country's navy :DL

There's a story told by an official that a foreign weapon system seller once joked why we bought so few . . . .and asked if they were meant for rebels or state. LOL. A country with more than 200 million people and among the top 20 of the highest GDP can't afford as many planes and other sophisticated weapon systems as say Malaysia, a country of mere 20 million people....less than twice the people living in Indonesia's capital (Jakarta) alone.

[papa_smurf]

You've got it all wrong, those pictures are a preview of the Royal Navy's new "compact" Destroyers:har:

[TLAM Strike]

Only that yours belong to the coast guard and mine to the country's navy :DL

Unlike in some other countries the Coast Guard is a branch of the US Military, but its just not part of the US Navy. ;)

There was a time not long ago where our Cutters were as well armed as some destroyers. :yep:

[Oberon]

These aren't bad at fishing people out of the sea around northwest Australia:
http://channelnine.9msn.com.au/img/seapatrol3/thumbnails/HMAS_hammersley.jpg

And starring in TV programs ;)

[August]

Unlike in some other countries the Coast Guard is a branch of the US Military, but its just not part of the US Navy.

Until recently the Coast Guard belonged to the, hahahaha, Department of TRANSPORTATION! :haha: :har:

[TLAM Strike]

Until recently the Coast Guard belonged to the, hahahaha, Department of TRANSPORTATION! :haha: :har:

Yea I know, the USCG gets passed around more than a joint at a hippie convention...

:D

Before that they were part of the Dept. of the Treasury. :03:

[Jimbuna]

That's no lady, that's Jimbuna! :O:

You've got it all wrong, those pictures are a preview of the Royal Navy's new "compact" Destroyers:har:


LOL :DL