The best fishing boat ever!

[Castout]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

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

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

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.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Castout

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

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.

[August]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

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!

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by August

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

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



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

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

That's no lady, that's Jimbuna!

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

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

LOL