"Storm Shadow"
"Skyflash"
"Brimstone"
"Sea Eagle"
"Grand Slam"
Britain has been a total shitshow for the last 50 years but at least they kept their most important tradition alive, choosing the most fucking rad Gerry Anderson names for missiles.
>Although Carrot Cake's crew were able to bring the fires under control, she was unable to continue operations due to the significant damage sustained, and was forced to make a withdrawal from the battle. The enemy ships in this engagement had been forced to distance themselves from their main fleet during maneuvers, however, and her sister ships Bakewell Tart and Rhubarb Crumble were able to exploit this limited support to draw them northwards, entering range of Stuffed Chine and Melton Mowbray Pork Pie's 99 Flake torpedoes.
Remminder that the Admiral Smokey has been in for repairs for over 5 years and they only JUST (2 months ago) got her back to be sea worthy enough to leave dry dock. Cuurent estimate is for mid 2024 to be back in service...we'll see. Still holding out for a third fire and maybe some kind of wildlife related mishap.
"Storm Shadow"
"Skyflash"
"Brimstone"
"Sea Eagle"
"Grand Slam"
Britain has been a total shitshow for the last 50 years but at least they kept their most important tradition alive, choosing the most fucking rad Gerry Anderson names for missiles.
America: >We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
>1215
England : >FIRST, THAT WE HAVE GRANTED TO GOD, and by this present charter have confirmed for us and our heirs in perpetuity, that the English Church shall be free, and shall have its rights undiminished, and its liberties unimpaired. That we wish this so to be observed, appears from the fact that of our own free will, before the outbreak of the present dispute between us and our barons, we granted and confirmed by charter the freedom of the Church's elections - a right reckoned to be of the greatest necessity and importance to it - and caused this to be confirmed by Pope Innocent III. This freedom we shall observe ourselves, and desire to be observed in good faith by our heirs in perpetuity.
>TO ALL FREE MEN OF OUR KINGDOM we have also granted, for us and our heirs for ever, all the liberties written out below, to have and to keep for them and their heirs, of us and our heirs:
You left out the best part of Magna Carta, which is still part of English Common Law today:
>XXIX. NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right
You left out the best part of Magna Carta, which is still part of English Common Law today:
>XXIX. NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right
Fun fact: the chaplain of one of the main leaders of the rebellion (Robert Fitzwalter) that brought England the Magna Carta, ended up being an emissary of the Mongol Empire as it invaded Europe over twenty years later.
The chaplain, also named Robert, remained excommunicated and exiled, because priests were specifically excluded from pardons after the rebellion - the pope had forbidden priests from joining the rebels, and this was used by the papal ambassasor to do a purge among disobedient priests in England.
The exiled chaplain joined the Knights Templar, went on the Fifth Crusade (as did Robert Fitzwalter, but he got sick and returned to England), fought in Egypt, then during a lull in fighting he got in trouble over gambling, which got him expelled from the Knights Templar. Disgraced and destitute, he went East... and met the Mongols, who were going in the other direction.
Twenty years later he returned to Europe as an emissary of the Mongol Army that smashed Hungary and was preparing to smash the rest of the continent. He was a translator and went around European courts to demand submission to the Great Khan. However, the Mongols ended withdrawing because said Great Khan just died and the generals wanted to take part in the power struggle, and the chaplain-turned-emissary got captured with a Mongol scouting party in Austria during the withdrawal. We know of him because he was interrogated and executed, and we have inquisitorial reports of his interrogation.
Britain: >But sir, we must prefer our respect unto God and to the Kingdom above any respect whatsoever; and although at this present many of us, if not all of us, are severely threatened by some of your party; yet we do here declare that we shall not decline or forbear the doing of our Duty in the administration of Justice, even to your self.
... >That though we should not be delivered from those bloody hands and hearts who conspire the overthrow of the Kingdom in general and of our selves in particular, for being actors in this great work of Justice; though I say we should perish in the work, yet by the grace and in the strength of God, we are resolved to go on with it.
... >That the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant, Traitor, Murderer, and a public Enemy, shall be put to death, by severing his Head from his Body.
To be fair Constitution is a good one for the double meaning of both the physical quality and the document
Personally I'm of the opinion that the true big dick energy move is to not give your ships names at all and just assign them numbers: taken at face value it's not as imposing as the likes of Warspite, but there's something profound in the implication that your fleet is just so big that there's not enough words in the dictionary to name them all.
I also like Ike, and yeah Constitution is good
I wish we didn't name everything after presidents though, it means at some point we're getting a USS Bush, USS Obama, and USS Trump. All three sound some variation of quite stupid
We dont always. I think we'll just shift towards naming shit after the guy who gives you 40 trillion dollars over his 80 years on the appropriations committee. pic related
or after diversity hire generals who nobody knows and who havent won any wars/
USS Trump is Checkmate-tier. Not that bad, but the association ruins it in this case. Can we have a Royal Flush? If we ever get into a fight with a monarchy it'll be great.
Bush the First already has a Nimitz-class named after him. Nixon never got any ships so it's likely Trump won't either, especially if any of his criminal charges stick.
oh true, forgot Bush Sr has one already
damn, my complaint with him and Obama is just that their names sounds kinda dumb attached to a warship. Nothing against either of them record-wise, they're just not intimidating/a bit goofy sounding.
Trump is actually a pretty cool name for a warship, but yeah the problem there is more the bad press. Completely disregarding internal politics, no foreigners are going to be excited to see the Trump pull up. The international community fucking despised the man, it's just shitty PR.
Why do buck tooth tea sipping limeys occupy so much space in your fragile mind
Post teeth, let's see if some you're the bastard spawn if some bongoloid who raped your whore mother
I love these cool names. Storm Shadow is cool and anyone who says otherwise must be a thirdy. SDB-2 is called Storm Breaker but everyone just refers to it as SDB-2 — because Small Diameter Bomb is packed with soul, right?
>M4 Sherman
based >M4 Medium or just M4
cringe
everything best came out from combining standards, simple as
The only thing worse was the habit of bongs not giving "Mark" to actual combat model but also any prototype testbed factory never-saw-a-german thing, so you end up with Valentines III being replaced by Valentines VIII.
wtf Churchill, where's Valentines IV-VII
no, "ay boss we replaced the irrelevant thing also the other thingy is now pointing other way so it's now Valentine V troops will love it" doesn't count
>Le SCALP-EG (acronyme de « Système de croisière conventionnel autonome à longue portée » et d'« Emploi général »), anciennement « Arme de précision tirée à grande distance », est un missile de croisière développé fin 1994 par Matra et British Aerospace puis fabriqué par MBDA2. >La version britannique est baptisée Storm Shadow.
lmao
I wish American planes had ironic names kind of like the whole Maus/Goliath thing the germans did. >Lockheed Martin unveiled it's contender for 6th generation fighter today, the "Fancy Pigeon".
"Warspite" is also a fucking hardcore name. Most British bomb vessels had sickass names too, just take a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bomb_vessels_of_the_Royal_Navy
>the storm shadow is approaching the kerch bridge
W...we named it ironically guys. You didn't get it... That's it.
Yeah what a gay name, should've been "insert bunch of fuckin letters and numbers here".
>the ultimate life form
>"storm shadow"
Yes.
There is a Storm- weapon gap
We cannot allow the Nazis to have all the storm weapons
>teleports behind you
>nothing personnel, bridge
>global hawk
More like
"Storm Shadow"
"Skyflash"
"Brimstone"
"Sea Eagle"
"Grand Slam"
Britain has been a total shitshow for the last 50 years but at least they kept their most important tradition alive, choosing the most fucking rad Gerry Anderson names for missiles.
grand slam sounds like a gay porno title
brimstone is decent, it's not like hellfire is much different
It's not super testosterone original XBOX fps tier manly man name, but it's so quaintly bri'ish. There is a theatricality to that name.
It feels more like the name of a video game.
It originates from a card game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_bridge
>*HEARTS OF OAK INTENSIFIES*
No, American cartoons.
>Brimstone is like a more classy version of hellfire
There's nothing classier or more British than a Biblical allusion.
They should start naming their weapons after foods
Bangers and Mash
Spotted Dick
Mushy Peas
Bubble and Squeak
Eton Mess.
>tfw your ship gets sank by HMS Lincolnshire Sausage
>Although Carrot Cake's crew were able to bring the fires under control, she was unable to continue operations due to the significant damage sustained, and was forced to make a withdrawal from the battle. The enemy ships in this engagement had been forced to distance themselves from their main fleet during maneuvers, however, and her sister ships Bakewell Tart and Rhubarb Crumble were able to exploit this limited support to draw them northwards, entering range of Stuffed Chine and Melton Mowbray Pork Pie's 99 Flake torpedoes.
>BREAKING NEWS: Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov sank by a Storm Shadow missile carried by HMS gay
Remminder that the Admiral Smokey has been in for repairs for over 5 years and they only JUST (2 months ago) got her back to be sea worthy enough to leave dry dock. Cuurent estimate is for mid 2024 to be back in service...we'll see. Still holding out for a third fire and maybe some kind of wildlife related mishap.
I unironically support this
>HMS freddo launched a salvo of yorkie AShMs and sank 2 russian vessels in the black se
Part and Parcel
HMS Butter Chicken,
HMS Blood Pudding
HMS Fish (carrying a flight of Chips-class ASW drones)
>not naming your torpedo bubble and squeak
It was a ten ton earthquake bomb used in World War 2- what did you expect, the Fuckerdickercuntinboom?
>Fuckerdickercuntinboom?
Yes, never heard a better name
Only somewhat related but this photo of... I think they're FBI guys from the 90s? Looks like gay porn in the making.
Top kek.
Grand Slam belongs to Denny's and Denny's alone.
22,000lbs of pre MOAB, MOAB.
Shit Show
Brimstone is like a more classy version of hellfire
Grand Slam?
Don't forget Starstreak
>the last 50 years
>Spitfire
>Hurricane
>Gladiator
>Sea Gladiator
>Sea Hurricane
>Whirlwind
I'd like to add Firestreak, Thunderbird and Sea Wolf.
>Not liking those names
Anon you are a gay
Immediately what I thought what we were talking about
>joint stars
>joint advanced this
>joint tactical that
>joint joint joint
I support changing joint to bong
america:
>house resolution 171/22 has authorised the deployment of the m1 rocket to the theatre of operations aboard the USS john smith
britain:
>BY ORDER OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT, THE STORM SHADOW SHALL BE DEPLOYED ABOARD THE HMS INVINCIBLE
America:
>We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Britain:
>...
>1215
England :
>FIRST, THAT WE HAVE GRANTED TO GOD, and by this present charter have confirmed for us and our heirs in perpetuity, that the English Church shall be free, and shall have its rights undiminished, and its liberties unimpaired. That we wish this so to be observed, appears from the fact that of our own free will, before the outbreak of the present dispute between us and our barons, we granted and confirmed by charter the freedom of the Church's elections - a right reckoned to be of the greatest necessity and importance to it - and caused this to be confirmed by Pope Innocent III. This freedom we shall observe ourselves, and desire to be observed in good faith by our heirs in perpetuity.
>TO ALL FREE MEN OF OUR KINGDOM we have also granted, for us and our heirs for ever, all the liberties written out below, to have and to keep for them and their heirs, of us and our heirs:
>Magna Carta, 1215
You left out the best part of Magna Carta, which is still part of English Common Law today:
>XXIX. NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right
Legalities are only as good as the threats that back them up.
Fun fact: the chaplain of one of the main leaders of the rebellion (Robert Fitzwalter) that brought England the Magna Carta, ended up being an emissary of the Mongol Empire as it invaded Europe over twenty years later.
The chaplain, also named Robert, remained excommunicated and exiled, because priests were specifically excluded from pardons after the rebellion - the pope had forbidden priests from joining the rebels, and this was used by the papal ambassasor to do a purge among disobedient priests in England.
The exiled chaplain joined the Knights Templar, went on the Fifth Crusade (as did Robert Fitzwalter, but he got sick and returned to England), fought in Egypt, then during a lull in fighting he got in trouble over gambling, which got him expelled from the Knights Templar. Disgraced and destitute, he went East... and met the Mongols, who were going in the other direction.
Twenty years later he returned to Europe as an emissary of the Mongol Army that smashed Hungary and was preparing to smash the rest of the continent. He was a translator and went around European courts to demand submission to the Great Khan. However, the Mongols ended withdrawing because said Great Khan just died and the generals wanted to take part in the power struggle, and the chaplain-turned-emissary got captured with a Mongol scouting party in Austria during the withdrawal. We know of him because he was interrogated and executed, and we have inquisitorial reports of his interrogation.
That was really interesting, thanks anon
Britain:
>But sir, we must prefer our respect unto God and to the Kingdom above any respect whatsoever; and although at this present many of us, if not all of us, are severely threatened by some of your party; yet we do here declare that we shall not decline or forbear the doing of our Duty in the administration of Justice, even to your self.
...
>That though we should not be delivered from those bloody hands and hearts who conspire the overthrow of the Kingdom in general and of our selves in particular, for being actors in this great work of Justice; though I say we should perish in the work, yet by the grace and in the strength of God, we are resolved to go on with it.
...
>That the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant, Traitor, Murderer, and a public Enemy, shall be put to death, by severing his Head from his Body.
>the USS john smith
I lost
good bants as always
To be fair Constitution is a good one for the double meaning of both the physical quality and the document
Personally I'm of the opinion that the true big dick energy move is to not give your ships names at all and just assign them numbers: taken at face value it's not as imposing as the likes of Warspite, but there's something profound in the implication that your fleet is just so big that there's not enough words in the dictionary to name them all.
I also like Ike, and yeah Constitution is good
I wish we didn't name everything after presidents though, it means at some point we're getting a USS Bush, USS Obama, and USS Trump. All three sound some variation of quite stupid
Looking forward to the USS George Floyd and the USS #protecttranskids myself.
We dont always. I think we'll just shift towards naming shit after the guy who gives you 40 trillion dollars over his 80 years on the appropriations committee. pic related
or after diversity hire generals who nobody knows and who havent won any wars/
w-what happens if you fall into the hatch
USS Trump is Checkmate-tier. Not that bad, but the association ruins it in this case. Can we have a Royal Flush? If we ever get into a fight with a monarchy it'll be great.
Bush the First already has a Nimitz-class named after him. Nixon never got any ships so it's likely Trump won't either, especially if any of his criminal charges stick.
Odds of a USS Yuge?
Maybe a USS Therapist?
oh true, forgot Bush Sr has one already
damn, my complaint with him and Obama is just that their names sounds kinda dumb attached to a warship. Nothing against either of them record-wise, they're just not intimidating/a bit goofy sounding.
Trump is actually a pretty cool name for a warship, but yeah the problem there is more the bad press. Completely disregarding internal politics, no foreigners are going to be excited to see the Trump pull up. The international community fucking despised the man, it's just shitty PR.
>Uss Trump pulls up to dock
>Its full of mexicans
>Ship motto is "Some are nice people"
You know someone is just waiting for his chance to name a weapon the Sephiroth
Give it another decade and we just might see that coming out of Japan
I was annoyed by how bad nato names for soviet/russian systems were. But turns out they're just shit at naming in general.
Except for the MiG 15, they named it correctly.
named it after OP
What's with this inorganic attempt to start a fight between Americans and Bongs? You nigs getting nervous over a few British missiles? lol
Seething thirdies false flagging, and cases of severe autism
british bros just ripping off Baneblade variants now huh?
bane?
its a big tank
UUUU
>not UWU
one fucking job
So you're saying that we still need Felllord, Helllord, and Shadowhammer
>fullmelta tank, full flamer tank, and an infiltrated tank
>full flamer tank
They got that one already
I wasn't the only one that thought about this, then.
>Ajax
>Warrior
>Storm Shadow
What will his next obsession be?
You kid, but did you know the Iranians use the same three names for everything in their arsenal?
I think it sounds fine when you say it in British.
'stoim shaydow'
How do you think bongoloids speak?
I don't know they have a single accent or dialect that would pronounce it like that, retard
cope, bong
Nta but, obligatory post hands turdie
Why do buck tooth tea sipping limeys occupy so much space in your fragile mind
Post teeth, let's see if some you're the bastard spawn if some bongoloid who raped your whore mother
oh boy, the 4chan newfags are seething
Ok rajesh
why would you think I'm from London, based on what I've posted so far?
shit's rad I don't care what anybody says.
why did they name their missile after a 12 year olds deviant art ARC?
Ukraine has been asking for longer range weapons for months, nobody provides them except Britain, why am I not shocked
Imagine not wanting to name your weapon systems like they're (or outright is in this case) a GI Joe character.
I love these cool names. Storm Shadow is cool and anyone who says otherwise must be a thirdy. SDB-2 is called Storm Breaker but everyone just refers to it as SDB-2 — because Small Diameter Bomb is packed with soul, right?
>vatnik's coping mechanism after being blown up is "well the name is cringe!"
lol
lmao
>it's cringe
Big words coming from the guys who had the Butcher of Aleppo and General Armageddon on their side.
>6 pounder
>doesnt weigh 6 pounds
the fuck bongs?
How many "Avengers" have the americans had?
4 with more movies on the way since that is the only slop westies will watch.
>Leave the Kerch Bridge to me!
My deepest belief is that the based Gen X GIJoe enjoyer UK MIC managers had this primarily in mind
What would be the next step in supplying Ukraine after Storm Shadows?
White flags for inevitable defeat.
NATO governments are just delaying the inevitable and spilling more dill blood for profit.
I meant to Ukraine. russoids will have to find their own white piece of clothes.
Just send the fucking typhoons already we all know the planes will fly eventually
>M4 Sherman
based
>M4 Medium or just M4
cringe
everything best came out from combining standards, simple as
The only thing worse was the habit of bongs not giving "Mark" to actual combat model but also any prototype testbed factory never-saw-a-german thing, so you end up with Valentines III being replaced by Valentines VIII.
wtf Churchill, where's Valentines IV-VII
no, "ay boss we replaced the irrelevant thing also the other thingy is now pointing other way so it's now Valentine V troops will love it" doesn't count
Still ten times better than the fucking Lancet or Pantsueer
>star streak
Oof. Bongs are not very good at cool names arent they?
Sorry we didn't call it a GMAGVLAARMAAG-12 or whatever your equivalent is
Anglo names were always peak cringe. Thunder Cougar Falcon Bird.
>Le SCALP-EG (acronyme de « Système de croisière conventionnel autonome à longue portée » et d'« Emploi général »), anciennement « Arme de précision tirée à grande distance », est un missile de croisière développé fin 1994 par Matra et British Aerospace puis fabriqué par MBDA2.
>La version britannique est baptisée Storm Shadow.
lmao
Thankfully nobody was ever cheesy enough to name their warbirds shit like 'Falcon' or 'Eagle' right?
I feel like by this point it should be a well entrenched position that weapons designed in the UK should have dramatic names.
I wish American planes had ironic names kind of like the whole Maus/Goliath thing the germans did.
>Lockheed Martin unveiled it's contender for 6th generation fighter today, the "Fancy Pigeon".
>Système de croisière conventionnel autonome à longue portée
>General Purpose Long-Range Cruise Missile
Kek
US Congress has *nothing* compared to the French Military when it comes to backronyms
Rapeyer. As if the bongs weren’t rapey enough already
>storm shadow
based
More weapons need to have tacticool mall ninja names.
>Still no mention of the based boy.
>DREADNOUGHT
Fuck you lot.
"Warspite" is also a fucking hardcore name. Most British bomb vessels had sickass names too, just take a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bomb_vessels_of_the_Royal_Navy
>Storm Shadow
When did Cobra join the fight?
>attack 'ems
>""
Missed opportunity for banter.
Sheep Shagger would have been better. Imagine the media having to constantly report that a bunch of Russians got killed by a sheep shagger.
>Vangaurd
>Audasious
Subs got some cool names too
>Jimpy
For gpmg kek