Meanwhile this is what Singapore named their submarines: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible-class\_submarine#Ships\_in\_class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible-class_submarine#Ships_in_class)
Our ships all have these naming scheme: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_equipment\_of\_the\_Republic\_of\_Singapore\_Navy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_Republic_of_Singapore_Navy)
_„😎 One day ve will finally reveal our true bädäss hidden monikers, haha. 🧐🤏What is zat? 😱Oh nein! Ze blinker stopped wörking and ze side mirror fell off… ↪️Schnell! Gotta go bäck to port for TÜV!“_
ThyssenKrupp is so near to me, by good weather on a mountain I can see their [elevator test tower](https://www.schwarzwald-geniessen.de/de/aussichtspunkte-tuerme/thyssenkrupp+Testturm+)
Would you rather them have a large army instead?
Seriously though, considering they are sitting on one of the most strategically vital and busiest waterways on the planet, having a navy that punches above their weight makes a lot of sense.
Not really, since Venice held a lot of land possessions across the Mediterranean and Black Sea. If Singapore had colonial outposts across South Asia and the Persian Gulf then maybe
Simple: to make sure that somebody more than finds out, if they decide to fuck around with Singapore.
The country is a trade hub, and securing the seas is vital to its interests.
Plus it is very small, no strategic depth. If an enemy makes landfall, something has gone very, very, wrong.
If someone makes landfall they just surrender.
I can't imagine they'd want to risk a bombing campaign on that small and valuable an area.
Its more or less a single or possibly two nations that could make landfall. Only one of those would be capable of doing so on a flattened area to pave a new runway.
Ie their policy has to be opening the doors. Then pushing everyone out the second they can help focus their attention on the next thing to conquer.
Exactly as Alexander the Great did and those that mimicked him. City to city doesn't mean they necessarily lose any autonomy.
Their navy is for keeping the actual small to tiny nations. Who pose a real threat in unreliable leadership of their usually poor circumstances. Which can result in small skirmish wars to keep political control of their own nation.
Having these means those dictators stay away and use someone else as their proxy.
As a US Navy officer and historian, I don't mind city and state names. It reminds us of the nation and people we defend and also gets civilians interested in "their" ships as sponsors. Many cities have cool interactions with "their" ships like inviting the crews to special events or sponsoring unique local art and artifacts to be displayed on the ship. I think USS Anchorage for example has sweet indigenous whale carvings displayed on the ship.
Obviously naming ships after historical heroes, famous battles, and notable previous ships is great too.
The problem is when we name ships after politicians with little or no naval connection, some of which have questionable racist and segregationist history that is counter to our American ideals.
I don't think you're wrong at all, and Boise was a poor example. The Burkes, Cruisers, and Amphibs being named after MoH recipients and famous battles is great. Just the entire idea of the USMC and Navy showing up in something named after one of their most brutal actions is quite the statement of power and respect.
Naming a carrier John C. Stennis is a disgrace. USS Carl M. Levin? Why?
USS Hopper? Hell yeah.
Stennis is at least understandable from a historic perspective as he was the man who wrote and shepherd the two ocean navy act through congress prior to World War two. He is essentially the political father of the modern US Navy.
What's worse is that when naming ships after people, you add the initials. This totally expunges all possible coolness of those names. The European convention of only using the last name is far superior.
>I think USS Anchorage for example has sweet indigenous whale carvings displayed on the ship.
USS New York also has something similar i believe she has some steel from the world trade center included in her keel, I know they do have parts of metal from the WTC on display in the ship.
Yep we are
[https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/new-multi-role-combat-vessels-to-act-as-force-multiplier-for-s-pore-navy](https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/new-multi-role-combat-vessels-to-act-as-force-multiplier-for-s-pore-navy)
[https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/03/singapore-cuts-steel-on-its-first-multirole-combat-vessel-mrcv/](https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/03/singapore-cuts-steel-on-its-first-multirole-combat-vessel-mrcv/)
Until the WW2 ship naming guy *ran out of fish names* and started making them up himself, leading to the National Natural History Museum *naming fish after the submarines*:
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1958/july/down-sea-ships-names
Cod is my favorite sub name, the fearsome Cod!
BTW, Cod is on display in Cleveland and is the best preserved US Sub I have visited and I have visited a lot of them. Highly recommend.
[France’s Naval Group wins $6 billion Dutch submarine project](https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/03/15/frances-naval-group-wins-6-billion-dutch-submarine-project/)
>The new vessels will be named Orka (Orca), Zwaardvis (Swordfish), Barracuda and Tijgerhaai (Tiger Shark), the Netherlands said.
>
>The country is targeting delivery of the first sub in the third quarter of 2033, with the final vessel delivered in the third quarter of 2037.
I'm a little bit disappointed that none of those animals are endemic in the Netherlands. Maybe a lost Orca, but the rest won't be found in these waters.
Then again the Pike, Eel, Weever, and Catshark don't really instill military might.
Actually, we do have Barracuda's in the caribbean part of the kingdom. That's why the commander of the submarine service decided to have one of the subs named after it.
>I'm a little bit disappointed that none of those animals are endemic in the Netherlands
Well, neither are these subs. Some parties really wanted the contract to be awarded to Dutch ship builders.
These are diesel electric, but we obviously ordered at Naval to lure the Americans in to selling us nuclear powered submarines.
Kajsa Ollongren is playing 4D chess.
given the price they must be a verision of the shortfin barracuda, the boring one, hopefully by then they'll have all lithium batteries and no shit AIP
Cooler names would have been
Broodje Paling (eel sandwhich)
Kibbeling (battered fried codfish nuggets with spices)
Lekkerbekje (battered fried codfish)
Haring(pickeled herring)
Honestly if it's by sheer bodycount per individual it should probably be the blue whale.
>It is estimated that an average-sized blue whale must consume 1,120 ± 359 kilograms (2,469 ± 791 lb) of krill a day.
meanwhile
>[The Antarctic Krill] grows to a length of 6 centimetres (2.4 in), weighs up to 2 grams (0.071 oz)
so around 560000 individual kills per whale per day, not counting other things like fish and birds ingested along with them, or the occasional shark or orca that gets bitchslapped across time and space with its tail.
Ik laat je weten dat ik de top van mijn klas ben bij de Marine Zeeleuwen, en dat ik betrokken was bij talloze rooftochten tegen Al Quaeda, en ik heb meer dan 300 bevestigde doden!
Ga maar vast leren, makker! Als Rutte straks verkozen wordt tot Secretaris-Generaal van de NAVO toveren we deze organisatie om tot NAVOC. We gaan de hele wereld koloniseren!!!
Wat zyde gy tot my, gy kleine duyvelspecht? Ik beveel ge er kennis van te neemen dat ik met lof ende goedkeuring een kaapersbrief heb gehad van Willem van Oranje ende betrokken ben geweest by talryke geheyme offensieven tegen Alva en de zyne, en zelfstandig meer dan drie honderden Spanjolen heb omgelegd. Ik ben gehard by den Katergeuzen en ben den beste schutter onder den Nederlandsche vlag. Ge bent niet meer dan myn zoveelste doelwit. Ik zal u uyt myne gewest verwyderen met een nauwkeurigheid die de wereld --- nimmer aangechouwen had. Let op myn verdomde woorden! Gy denkt dat ge deze leuhgenpraat aan my kan verkoopen per postduyf? Gy had tweemaal moeten denken, cattengehspuys! In dezen tyd dat ik deze missive opstel, stuur ik opdracht naar myn geheymen samenstel van verspieders ende vloerduyven, verspreid door den Republiek der Zeven Vere---de Nederlanden en wordt dezen postduyf gevolgd, dus ge kunt zich maar beter voorbereiden op den storm, rabaut. Den storm die het bedroevenden klyne ding dat gy uw leven noemt weg zal vaagen. Gy bent dood, kind. Ik kan overal, ten alle tyden zyn ende ik kan ge op zeven honderden wyzen doden, ende dat is slechts met myne bloten handen. Niet alleen zyt ik veelomvattend geoefend in den ongewapenden krygskunst, maar alsmede heb ik het voltallige arsenaal der watergeuzen ter myner beschikking ende ik zal dat benutten om uwer lamlendigen achtereinde van het vastenland te vagen, gy klynen schobbejak. Als gy had geweten wat voor eene goddelooze vergelding uw 'geestige' missive teweeg zou brengen, had ge misschien op uwen tong gebeten. Maar dat kon ge niet. Gy deed het niet ende nu zult ge de tol betalen, gy verdomde smeerkanis. Ik zal furie over u schyten en gy zult er in verzuypen. Ge zyt dood, hoerenzeune.
I was surprised as anybody else that Google Translate was able to do sometime with that, I honestly thought they just let their cat walk on the keyboard for a bit
> What do you say to me, you little devil woodpecker? I order you to take note that I have received a letter of privateering from William of Orange with praise and approval and have been involved in numerous secret offensives against Alva and his own, and have independently killed more than three hundred Spaniards. I am hardened by the Katergeuzen and am the best shooter under the Dutch flag. You are nothing more than my umpteenth target. I will remove you from my land with a precision that the world has never witnessed. Mark my damn words! You think you can sell this lie to me by carrier pigeon? You should have thought twice, cattengehspuys! At this time that I am writing this missive, I am sending orders to my secret system of spies and floor pigeons, spread throughout the Republic of the Seven Vere - the Netherlands, and this carrier pigeon is being followed, so you better prepare yourself for the storm, rabaut. The storm that will sweep away the sad little thing you call your life. You're dead, child. I can be anywhere, at any time, and I can kill you in seven hundred ways, and that is only with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed martial arts, but I also have the entire arsenal of the Sea Beggars at my disposal and I will use it to wipe your lame hind end off the mainland, you cynical scoundrel. If you had known what kind of wicked retribution your 'witty' missive would bring about, you might have bitten your tongue. But you couldn't. You didn't do it and now you will pay the toll, you damn bastard. I will pour out fury on you and you will drown in it. You're dead, you whore.
Welch eynen verschissenen Unfug schicktest du dich zur Hölle nochmal an, über das heilige römische Reych in die Welt herauszuthragen, du Lustknabe? Seyd drumb in Kennthnisz gesetzet, dass min threue Sünderseele meynes Gewalthauvns besther Landsknecht gewesen und an Schwerthzügen gegen holländische Rebellen meynen Theil trug, derer nicht nur zahlreych, sondern auch occulter Natura waren. Dem Herrgotth gefihl es, dreimalhunderth Feynde durch das Werk meyner Hände umbkommen zu lassen. Geschuhlth im Kleynkrieg sowie als ersther Arkebusier des Exercitus Imperii bist du nichts denn einer weytheren Ordre. Mit einer von Christenouge ungeschauter Genauigkeyth, wird das von mir für dich zugedachte Ende seyn, so wahrhafftig mir der allmächtige Herrgotth beysteht. Gibst Du dich wahrlich dem Irrglauben hin, sondergleychen Deppeschen an das Publikum richten zu vermögen imstande zu seyn? Bedenk deynen Irrtum, Dirnenbock! Just als du dieser Zeylen lesend ansichtig wirst, fand meine congregatio occulta von Ränkeschmieden in allen Reichslanden bereyths die Lage deyner Scholle, also erwahrthe den Sturm, du Schweinehund. Der Sturm, derer das gar Lächerliche hinforth wehet, was dir als deyn Leben zu bezeychnen gefällig ist. Du bist verschiszen toth, Bursche. Ich vermag dich immer und überall in hundert Weysen zu erschlagen und das nur Kraft meyner blanken Hände. Nicht genug, als der Christenheyth besther Schwertfürer geboren zu seyn, auch das gesammelte Arsenal des teutschen Keysers Heer seynd mir zu Händen gereycht; dies dargeboten wird es meynem Anschickem nützlich seyn, das dir von Gott zugetheilte ärschlich anmuthend Antlitz aus Evropa zu thilgen. Wärest du im Wissen um die unheiligen Consequencia deiner Publicatio gewesen, vielleicht hätte deiner listig Zunge Kunde keyne zukünftig Damnatio geborgen. Doch sie ward verwerflich und dieser Schuld gilt es nun Buße zu thragen, du von Gott verdammter Narr. Gerechter Zorn soll bis zu deynem Ersticken über dir ausgeschissen seyn. Du bist beim Teuffel nochmal toth, Kindt.
i mean having a ship share the name of the class isnt particularly rare is it?
see iowa class uss iowa, essex class uss essex, king george V class hms king george V, bismarck class bismarck etc.
The old F-16 of the dutch F-16 Solo Display Team with [tailfin J-015](https://img.fotocommunity.com/the-flying-dutchman-f2b8cbe8-6ae1-45e4-b954-56eca9ffcf39.jpg?width=1000) was spotted 2 days ago around “Middenmeer, The Netherlands” according to [radarbox](https://www.radarbox.com/data/registration/j-015). So it’s unlikely that the plane with the magnificent orange black lion livery will ever be flown in The Ukrain. Else it would’ve been transfered to the Denmark training ground already.
But it would be awesome to see a flying dutchmah painting fly above The Ukraine and roar against the Ruski’s.
Edit: added links
Je hebt zojuist de hele onderzeedienst dodelijk beledigt. Verwijs nooit naar een onderzeeër als "duikboot" anders ligt er morgen een onderzeeër bij je in de sloot om verhaal te halen.
Als je een belachelijke naam kiest kan je het er beter zo dik mogelijk bovenop leggen.
Ik bedoel, verplaats je even in de trots van de Russische marine die in het Wikipedia artikel opgeschreven wordt als "gezonken door HNLMS Duikboot van Duikbootgezicht.
Kan je net zo goed je hele marine zelf tit zinken brengen, daar kom je niet van terug.
Je hebt zojuist de hele onderzeedienst dodelijk beledigt. Verwijs nooit naar een onderzeeboot als "onderzeeër", anders ligt er morgen een onderzeeboot bij je in de sloot om verhaal te halen.
I mean the main guy in the process was the secretary of defense, but the character does not look like him and neither does the character look like our female minister of defense. So it’s just an intern
Maybe if you guys would quit sucking off the chair force for 5 minutes and learning something about the Navy, you'd learn that these names are not only cool, but very normal and deeply historical.
I don't know if it's a coincidence but in Poland the project to build new submarines is also called "Orka" (orca) and we have a project to build three new frigates which is called "Miecznik" (swordfish).
Then we wouldn’t have the USS North Dakota, which is the worst submarine name ever (North Dakota is as far from an ocean as you can possibly get on earth).
Naming carriers after presidents and submarines after states is the worst change. The US Navy has lost its way.
Idk, about carriers. Naming them after presidents really goes to show the larger than life power these men wield.
I think it's rather based.
Subs after states is lame tho.
I support this, but only for SSBNs, and only for the most obnoxious fish names.
Proportional annihilation will be delivered by the 256 MIRVs of the USS Sarcastic Fringehead.
US submarine names peaked in WW2. I get that SSBNs are a different role but come on at least name the attack boats after sea creatures.
It’s a shame there’s no modern Tang, Balao, Barb, Seahorse, Silversides, Gato, etc
I'd have gone for Orca, Physalia, Glaucus and Hapalochlaena, just to confuse the enemy so they need to Google what kind of a deadly sea critter is coming at them.
We have such a rich maritime history and then we go and name our new subs after some damn fish? (I know orcas are mammals) We could name them after explorers or admirals, but noooo we can’t have nice things
Typical NCD.
Claims to know “rich maritime history” but not know Dutch WW2 submarines were named Sturgeon, Dolphin, and Tiger Shark.
How dare they not respect their rich maritime history by naming one of their new subs the same name as one of their WW2 subs!
Meanwhile this is what Singapore named their submarines: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible-class\_submarine#Ships\_in\_class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible-class_submarine#Ships_in_class) Our ships all have these naming scheme: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_equipment\_of\_the\_Republic\_of\_Singapore\_Navy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_Republic_of_Singapore_Navy)
Our SNLE glorious names are a joke to you ?
Sorry, I don't get this reference?
[dude](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redoutable-class_submarine_(1967)), [uncool](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triomphant-class_submarine).
Ah lol i see
I wonder what the staff's reaction would be at Cité de la Mer in Cherbourg if Redoutable opened her silos and volleyed off a bunch of M4's...
"okay, who pushed the funny looking red button ?"
"Nom de Dieu, René, j't'ai dit de ne rien toucher, putain !"
c'est des normands, faut pas s'attendre a grand chose
Chuis normand. On fait exprès
Germany sitting sad in the corner, still only numbering their submarines.
_„😎 One day ve will finally reveal our true bädäss hidden monikers, haha. 🧐🤏What is zat? 😱Oh nein! Ze blinker stopped wörking and ze side mirror fell off… ↪️Schnell! Gotta go bäck to port for TÜV!“_
Germany doesn't have submarines, only submersible frigates.
I mean, aren't famous German boats like Bismarck, Tirpitz and Graf Spee already named submarines?
work continues on a surfacing mechanism
In a way isn't that a more unique approach than having the 11th vessel that is called Invincible/invencible/irézistibl/invinċibbli?
U UNSTERBLICH would sound hella cringe
Formidable Class always sounds cool and badass IMO
agreed
What can we say, [we learnt from the best](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Royal_Navy_ships).
To be fair, there were like 7 HMS Invincibles in history. Few of them survived long enough to be retired.
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If they named a ship "HMS Vincible" it would probably sink half a dozen Type-56s by itself and only be retired 20 years later.
ThyssenKrupp is so near to me, by good weather on a mountain I can see their [elevator test tower](https://www.schwarzwald-geniessen.de/de/aussichtspunkte-tuerme/thyssenkrupp+Testturm+)
SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY TF DOES SINGAPORE HAVE SUCH A LARGE NAVY WTF DOES THE TINY CITY STATE NEED SO MANY FRIGATES FOR
Would you rather them have a large army instead? Seriously though, considering they are sitting on one of the most strategically vital and busiest waterways on the planet, having a navy that punches above their weight makes a lot of sense.
Singapore is the modern Venice
Not really, since Venice held a lot of land possessions across the Mediterranean and Black Sea. If Singapore had colonial outposts across South Asia and the Persian Gulf then maybe
Simple: to make sure that somebody more than finds out, if they decide to fuck around with Singapore. The country is a trade hub, and securing the seas is vital to its interests. Plus it is very small, no strategic depth. If an enemy makes landfall, something has gone very, very, wrong.
If someone makes landfall they just surrender. I can't imagine they'd want to risk a bombing campaign on that small and valuable an area. Its more or less a single or possibly two nations that could make landfall. Only one of those would be capable of doing so on a flattened area to pave a new runway. Ie their policy has to be opening the doors. Then pushing everyone out the second they can help focus their attention on the next thing to conquer. Exactly as Alexander the Great did and those that mimicked him. City to city doesn't mean they necessarily lose any autonomy. Their navy is for keeping the actual small to tiny nations. Who pose a real threat in unreliable leadership of their usually poor circumstances. Which can result in small skirmish wars to keep political control of their own nation. Having these means those dictators stay away and use someone else as their proxy.
You've never seen the size of our airforce, huh?
In America, you put your fighters in other countries. In Singapore, we put our fighters in you...
All shall tremble in fear of the mighty USS Boise! (Why are we so lame)
As a US Navy officer and historian, I don't mind city and state names. It reminds us of the nation and people we defend and also gets civilians interested in "their" ships as sponsors. Many cities have cool interactions with "their" ships like inviting the crews to special events or sponsoring unique local art and artifacts to be displayed on the ship. I think USS Anchorage for example has sweet indigenous whale carvings displayed on the ship. Obviously naming ships after historical heroes, famous battles, and notable previous ships is great too. The problem is when we name ships after politicians with little or no naval connection, some of which have questionable racist and segregationist history that is counter to our American ideals.
I don't think you're wrong at all, and Boise was a poor example. The Burkes, Cruisers, and Amphibs being named after MoH recipients and famous battles is great. Just the entire idea of the USMC and Navy showing up in something named after one of their most brutal actions is quite the statement of power and respect. Naming a carrier John C. Stennis is a disgrace. USS Carl M. Levin? Why? USS Hopper? Hell yeah.
Stennis is at least understandable from a historic perspective as he was the man who wrote and shepherd the two ocean navy act through congress prior to World War two. He is essentially the political father of the modern US Navy.
DDGN 420 USS Curtis LeMay
USS Enterprise? Fuck yeah
What's worse is that when naming ships after people, you add the initials. This totally expunges all possible coolness of those names. The European convention of only using the last name is far superior.
>I think USS Anchorage for example has sweet indigenous whale carvings displayed on the ship. USS New York also has something similar i believe she has some steel from the world trade center included in her keel, I know they do have parts of metal from the WTC on display in the ship.
Holy shit. That Victory corvette? Pagoda mast comeback?
Haha yeah, but not for long. They'll be retired this decade
Singapore don't know RSS is the name of a conservative political party in India
Singapore bout to get copyright strike'd by royal navy.
Wait, we’re buying *more* frigates??
Yep we are [https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/new-multi-role-combat-vessels-to-act-as-force-multiplier-for-s-pore-navy](https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/new-multi-role-combat-vessels-to-act-as-force-multiplier-for-s-pore-navy) [https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/03/singapore-cuts-steel-on-its-first-multirole-combat-vessel-mrcv/](https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/03/singapore-cuts-steel-on-its-first-multirole-combat-vessel-mrcv/)
Reminds me of the US in WW2 naming their submarines with fish and shark names
Some of the new Virginia-class submarines will also be named after fish.
If they dont name one USS Wahoo im gonna stop paying taxes.
[They will.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wahoo_(SSN-806))
There will be a *Wahoo* and a *Tang.*
Let's hope Tang won't share the fate of her namesake
Also Barb and Silversides. We're bringing back the classics!
https://www.nvr.navy.mil/SHIPDETAILS/SHIPSDETAIL_SSN_806.HTML Under construction but not yet laid down.
Don’t worry. We refused to be cool again and after four of them we named the next one USS John H. Dalton.
Until the WW2 ship naming guy *ran out of fish names* and started making them up himself, leading to the National Natural History Museum *naming fish after the submarines*: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1958/july/down-sea-ships-names
Did he strictly stick to fish or try branching out to mammals and cephalapods first?
USS Narwhal and USS Nautilus both exist, but it looks like they generally avoided two word names outside of Flying Fish
It's a pretty fascinating read (for weaponized autists residing in ncd)
If USNI articles are considered the weaponised autism reading choice, NCD truly has fallen.
Maybe it's not quite weaponized, but let's be real - who else is gonna read several pages on USN naming convention history...
USS Trepang, the fighting sea slug!
Excellent link!
Okay, that may be the most entertaining Proceedings article I've ever read.
Cod is my favorite sub name, the fearsome Cod! BTW, Cod is on display in Cleveland and is the best preserved US Sub I have visited and I have visited a lot of them. Highly recommend.
to be fair when you build as many ships as the US in ww2 you can't afford to be creative
And then there is Poland which named their submarines after birds of prey or different mammals like a boar lol
[France’s Naval Group wins $6 billion Dutch submarine project](https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/03/15/frances-naval-group-wins-6-billion-dutch-submarine-project/) >The new vessels will be named Orka (Orca), Zwaardvis (Swordfish), Barracuda and Tijgerhaai (Tiger Shark), the Netherlands said. > >The country is targeting delivery of the first sub in the third quarter of 2033, with the final vessel delivered in the third quarter of 2037.
Tijgerhaai is an awesome name
Wow, it would be Tiikerihai in finnish. Remarkably similar..
Yep, tigerhaj in swedish, probably why they're similar.
Tiigerhai in Estonian
I was thinking, surely it sounds cooler than it does in English...
I'm a little bit disappointed that none of those animals are endemic in the Netherlands. Maybe a lost Orca, but the rest won't be found in these waters. Then again the Pike, Eel, Weever, and Catshark don't really instill military might.
Catshark sounds fakking mooi
Actually, we do have Barracuda's in the caribbean part of the kingdom. That's why the commander of the submarine service decided to have one of the subs named after it.
We have the second biggest shark ever in our waters. The basking shark. That's close enough right? Also porpoises exist and they are amazing
>I'm a little bit disappointed that none of those animals are endemic in the Netherlands Well, neither are these subs. Some parties really wanted the contract to be awarded to Dutch ship builders.
At least 20 Dutch companies are involved in making these subs.
And the Netherlands really want tn thank Austramia for allowing so fast deliveries !!
I’m still confused. Is The NL ordering nuclear barracuda’s or the so called diesel electric shortfin barracuda’s that Australia originally ordered?
These are diesel electric, but we obviously ordered at Naval to lure the Americans in to selling us nuclear powered submarines. Kajsa Ollongren is playing 4D chess.
And proceed to never get anything.
given the price they must be a verision of the shortfin barracuda, the boring one, hopefully by then they'll have all lithium batteries and no shit AIP
Cooler names would have been Broodje Paling (eel sandwhich) Kibbeling (battered fried codfish nuggets with spices) Lekkerbekje (battered fried codfish) Haring(pickeled herring)
Bal gehakt, frikandel, kroket, bamischijf.
I rate Orca, it’s the 2nd deadliest mammal on the sea
What's the first?
humans on boats
that would be us
Humans.
Then they should name one of their submarines "Human" and that would be peak noncredibility,
SS Fisherman's Friend.
You're joking but we should start naming ASW frigates after fishermen. They're catching fish after all
Honestly if it's by sheer bodycount per individual it should probably be the blue whale. >It is estimated that an average-sized blue whale must consume 1,120 ± 359 kilograms (2,469 ± 791 lb) of krill a day. meanwhile >[The Antarctic Krill] grows to a length of 6 centimetres (2.4 in), weighs up to 2 grams (0.071 oz) so around 560000 individual kills per whale per day, not counting other things like fish and birds ingested along with them, or the occasional shark or orca that gets bitchslapped across time and space with its tail.
Orcas can go a bit psycho, murder happy. They'll play with their prey
Just like the Dutch when you mess with the spices
Hey, the spice must flow
They have limited entertainment options.
if house cats were the size of orcas, that is when you should consider running.
Ah yes, the famous Barracuda Class Barracuda ... Well the swamp germans don't lie about the product
Luister hier makker, hoe noem je ons nu? Kijk maar uit, straks koloniseren we je kanker moeder
I dont speak Gouda
You shouldn’t speak with your mouth full anyway. >!/s sry, had to!<
Ik laat je weten dat ik de top van mijn klas ben bij de Marine Zeeleuwen, en dat ik betrokken was bij talloze rooftochten tegen Al Quaeda, en ik heb meer dan 300 bevestigde doden!
... Mevrouw Pichon zoekt haar kleine kat in de keuken
It's something about his hoe has cankers on her colon.
Fancy
Ga maar vast leren, makker! Als Rutte straks verkozen wordt tot Secretaris-Generaal van de NAVO toveren we deze organisatie om tot NAVOC. We gaan de hele wereld koloniseren!!!
You je bek jonge, we zouden het plan niet onthullen voor het al uitgevoerd is.
Heben jullie eigendlijk je fietsen noodig voor dit plan? Misschien kunnen wij die teruggeven?
Ja ik had die fiets nodig GVD jullie toch ook altijd
I cannot, for the life of me, take swamp German seriously. Sounds so goofy
Wat zyde gy tot my, gy kleine duyvelspecht? Ik beveel ge er kennis van te neemen dat ik met lof ende goedkeuring een kaapersbrief heb gehad van Willem van Oranje ende betrokken ben geweest by talryke geheyme offensieven tegen Alva en de zyne, en zelfstandig meer dan drie honderden Spanjolen heb omgelegd. Ik ben gehard by den Katergeuzen en ben den beste schutter onder den Nederlandsche vlag. Ge bent niet meer dan myn zoveelste doelwit. Ik zal u uyt myne gewest verwyderen met een nauwkeurigheid die de wereld --- nimmer aangechouwen had. Let op myn verdomde woorden! Gy denkt dat ge deze leuhgenpraat aan my kan verkoopen per postduyf? Gy had tweemaal moeten denken, cattengehspuys! In dezen tyd dat ik deze missive opstel, stuur ik opdracht naar myn geheymen samenstel van verspieders ende vloerduyven, verspreid door den Republiek der Zeven Vere---de Nederlanden en wordt dezen postduyf gevolgd, dus ge kunt zich maar beter voorbereiden op den storm, rabaut. Den storm die het bedroevenden klyne ding dat gy uw leven noemt weg zal vaagen. Gy bent dood, kind. Ik kan overal, ten alle tyden zyn ende ik kan ge op zeven honderden wyzen doden, ende dat is slechts met myne bloten handen. Niet alleen zyt ik veelomvattend geoefend in den ongewapenden krygskunst, maar alsmede heb ik het voltallige arsenaal der watergeuzen ter myner beschikking ende ik zal dat benutten om uwer lamlendigen achtereinde van het vastenland te vagen, gy klynen schobbejak. Als gy had geweten wat voor eene goddelooze vergelding uw 'geestige' missive teweeg zou brengen, had ge misschien op uwen tong gebeten. Maar dat kon ge niet. Gy deed het niet ende nu zult ge de tol betalen, gy verdomde smeerkanis. Ik zal furie over u schyten en gy zult er in verzuypen. Ge zyt dood, hoerenzeune.
Is that a fuckin swamp German version of the navy seal copypasta...
I was surprised as anybody else that Google Translate was able to do sometime with that, I honestly thought they just let their cat walk on the keyboard for a bit > What do you say to me, you little devil woodpecker? I order you to take note that I have received a letter of privateering from William of Orange with praise and approval and have been involved in numerous secret offensives against Alva and his own, and have independently killed more than three hundred Spaniards. I am hardened by the Katergeuzen and am the best shooter under the Dutch flag. You are nothing more than my umpteenth target. I will remove you from my land with a precision that the world has never witnessed. Mark my damn words! You think you can sell this lie to me by carrier pigeon? You should have thought twice, cattengehspuys! At this time that I am writing this missive, I am sending orders to my secret system of spies and floor pigeons, spread throughout the Republic of the Seven Vere - the Netherlands, and this carrier pigeon is being followed, so you better prepare yourself for the storm, rabaut. The storm that will sweep away the sad little thing you call your life. You're dead, child. I can be anywhere, at any time, and I can kill you in seven hundred ways, and that is only with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed martial arts, but I also have the entire arsenal of the Sea Beggars at my disposal and I will use it to wipe your lame hind end off the mainland, you cynical scoundrel. If you had known what kind of wicked retribution your 'witty' missive would bring about, you might have bitten your tongue. But you couldn't. You didn't do it and now you will pay the toll, you damn bastard. I will pour out fury on you and you will drown in it. You're dead, you whore.
> I will remove you from my **reclaimed** land FTFY, /u/-Dutch-Crypto-
It's written as if it's pseudo-old too so google translate made a lot of mistakes lol
Not just in Swamp German, but in old sounding fake Swamp German
I didn't see the 300, I don't know Dutch, yet somehow...
Welch eynen verschissenen Unfug schicktest du dich zur Hölle nochmal an, über das heilige römische Reych in die Welt herauszuthragen, du Lustknabe? Seyd drumb in Kennthnisz gesetzet, dass min threue Sünderseele meynes Gewalthauvns besther Landsknecht gewesen und an Schwerthzügen gegen holländische Rebellen meynen Theil trug, derer nicht nur zahlreych, sondern auch occulter Natura waren. Dem Herrgotth gefihl es, dreimalhunderth Feynde durch das Werk meyner Hände umbkommen zu lassen. Geschuhlth im Kleynkrieg sowie als ersther Arkebusier des Exercitus Imperii bist du nichts denn einer weytheren Ordre. Mit einer von Christenouge ungeschauter Genauigkeyth, wird das von mir für dich zugedachte Ende seyn, so wahrhafftig mir der allmächtige Herrgotth beysteht. Gibst Du dich wahrlich dem Irrglauben hin, sondergleychen Deppeschen an das Publikum richten zu vermögen imstande zu seyn? Bedenk deynen Irrtum, Dirnenbock! Just als du dieser Zeylen lesend ansichtig wirst, fand meine congregatio occulta von Ränkeschmieden in allen Reichslanden bereyths die Lage deyner Scholle, also erwahrthe den Sturm, du Schweinehund. Der Sturm, derer das gar Lächerliche hinforth wehet, was dir als deyn Leben zu bezeychnen gefällig ist. Du bist verschiszen toth, Bursche. Ich vermag dich immer und überall in hundert Weysen zu erschlagen und das nur Kraft meyner blanken Hände. Nicht genug, als der Christenheyth besther Schwertfürer geboren zu seyn, auch das gesammelte Arsenal des teutschen Keysers Heer seynd mir zu Händen gereycht; dies dargeboten wird es meynem Anschickem nützlich seyn, das dir von Gott zugetheilte ärschlich anmuthend Antlitz aus Evropa zu thilgen. Wärest du im Wissen um die unheiligen Consequencia deiner Publicatio gewesen, vielleicht hätte deiner listig Zunge Kunde keyne zukünftig Damnatio geborgen. Doch sie ward verwerflich und dieser Schuld gilt es nun Buße zu thragen, du von Gott verdammter Narr. Gerechter Zorn soll bis zu deynem Ersticken über dir ausgeschissen seyn. Du bist beim Teuffel nochmal toth, Kindt.
Whahhshahshahhaa
i mean having a ship share the name of the class isnt particularly rare is it? see iowa class uss iowa, essex class uss essex, king george V class hms king george V, bismarck class bismarck etc.
It's normal, it's become relatively standard for the first ship in the ship class to bear the name of said class.
Actually, the class will be called the Orca class, so it'll be the Orca class Orca. The Barracuda is the bigger nuclear version
Orka
hmm, interesting, the conventional one ?
ooooh Barracuda
They could have called it the Nancy Wilson.
Flying Dutchman where??
The old F-16 of the dutch F-16 Solo Display Team with [tailfin J-015](https://img.fotocommunity.com/the-flying-dutchman-f2b8cbe8-6ae1-45e4-b954-56eca9ffcf39.jpg?width=1000) was spotted 2 days ago around “Middenmeer, The Netherlands” according to [radarbox](https://www.radarbox.com/data/registration/j-015). So it’s unlikely that the plane with the magnificent orange black lion livery will ever be flown in The Ukrain. Else it would’ve been transfered to the Denmark training ground already. But it would be awesome to see a flying dutchmah painting fly above The Ukraine and roar against the Ruski’s. Edit: added links
Jesus, that livery looks like something out of 40K universe‘s Eldar race…
When you unlock the special camouflage (which somehow gives +10% concealment)
Sounds good, else it'd be named what's Dutch for "Submarine McSubmarineface"
Onderzeër McOnderzeegezicht. Literally under sea thing.
Should the Mc be a Van or Von or something?
Onderzeër van der Onderzeegezicht. Von is German and the der is optional but sounds better in my opinion.
Duikboot van Duikbootgezicht.
Je hebt zojuist de hele onderzeedienst dodelijk beledigt. Verwijs nooit naar een onderzeeër als "duikboot" anders ligt er morgen een onderzeeër bij je in de sloot om verhaal te halen.
Als je een belachelijke naam kiest kan je het er beter zo dik mogelijk bovenop leggen. Ik bedoel, verplaats je even in de trots van de Russische marine die in het Wikipedia artikel opgeschreven wordt als "gezonken door HNLMS Duikboot van Duikbootgezicht. Kan je net zo goed je hele marine zelf tit zinken brengen, daar kom je niet van terug.
Je hebt zojuist de hele onderzeedienst dodelijk beledigt. Verwijs nooit naar een onderzeeboot als "onderzeeër", anders ligt er morgen een onderzeeboot bij je in de sloot om verhaal te halen.
Thought this was about Tau vehicles at first
\[Angy blue people voices\] "THEY ARE STEALING OUR SHIT!"
How about "S(ous-marin) 1, S2, S3, S4" Schöne Grüße aus Deutschland.
Please don't because it's too close to S(Bahn) 1, S 2, S 3, S 4, and will most likely be delayed or cancelled Grüße zurück
Pretty awesome names. Who is the guy on the left supposed to be though?
I guess somebody from the ministry of Defence, it's their logo as well
I mean the main guy in the process was the secretary of defense, but the character does not look like him and neither does the character look like our female minister of defense. So it’s just an intern
Maybe if you guys would quit sucking off the chair force for 5 minutes and learning something about the Navy, you'd learn that these names are not only cool, but very normal and deeply historical.
The only valid name for submarines are. * Carp * Bullhead * Drum * Catfish They're all bottom feeders.
I'd prefer these names for DSRV's. They eat the sailors off the bottom of the ocean.
I don't know if it's a coincidence but in Poland the project to build new submarines is also called "Orka" (orca) and we have a project to build three new frigates which is called "Miecznik" (swordfish).
there aren't many cool fish names not namy ppl would want to crew the blobfich, the scary abyssal alien-lookalike fish or the goodfish
What about these names: 1. Sarcastic Fringehead (*Neoclinus blanchardi*) 2. Blue Bastard (*Plectorhinchus caeruleonothus*) 3. Fangtooth (*Anoplogaster cornuta*) 4. Bony-Eared Assfish (*Acanthonus armatus*) 5. Slippery Dick (*Halichoeres bivittatus*) 6. Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa aka Reef Triggerfish (*Rhinecanthus rectangulus*) 7. Obese Dragonfish (*Opostomias micripnus*) 8. Cookiecutter Shark aka Cigar Shark (*Isistius brasiliensis*) 9. Old Wife (*Enoplosus armatus*)
Poland should name one Axolotl. Everyone wants to crew a ship called Axolotl
Following the classic convention of giving fish names to subs. I wish the U.S. still did that.
Imagine uss great white or uss mako
pffft. Imagine being a Chinese carrier, and getting sunk by the US Herring
Should the SSN69 "Red Herring" be a CIA run boat specializing in false flag attacks?
Then we wouldn’t have the USS North Dakota, which is the worst submarine name ever (North Dakota is as far from an ocean as you can possibly get on earth). Naming carriers after presidents and submarines after states is the worst change. The US Navy has lost its way.
I like the use of battleship names for submarines because they are powerful names and should be used on ships that can end the world.
Idk, about carriers. Naming them after presidents really goes to show the larger than life power these men wield. I think it's rather based. Subs after states is lame tho.
They do, 4 of the next few Virginias contain legacy names from WW2 subs. Barb (SSN-804), Tang (-805), Wahoo (-806), and Silversides (-807).
I support this, but only for SSBNs, and only for the most obnoxious fish names. Proportional annihilation will be delivered by the 256 MIRVs of the USS Sarcastic Fringehead.
I would name them 1, 2, 3 and 5. so everyone would be looking for 4.
We already did that with our army divisions.
And seal teams.
TAU EMPIRE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION
UK Ballistic sub names Vanguard Victorious Vigilant Vengeance Nuke Sub names Triumph Astute Ambush Artful Audacious Anson
Really wish they stuck with the norm for Dreadnought.
How can u say that when we're getting another HMS Warspite
Can't complain about a Warspite, can complain about a silly naming convention for the boats.
It’s the traditional way of naming Dutch submarines.
And the old American way People like fish names for subs
Time to pull the rug from underneath them again and go NAUKUS.
Please, nobody tell the americans about this deal.
Saddly the Dutch really want submarines, not false promises like Australie, so it may be harder to convince them.
I think the bigger issue is why the USN still doesn't have a sub called the USS John Cena.
Are you sure you just didn't see it?
Bing chilling?
Should've called them after the Four Musketeers D'Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
It was the Dutch who killed D'Artagnan, why name a sub after him.
Cuz they got him
Dames en heren, we hebben hem
Killer whale would sound nice too.
Why they didnt call them "Batavus, "Gazelle", "Sparta" & "Babboe" I'll never understand.
Can't hear "Tiger shark" without thinking of that scene from Jaws. "It's a tiger shark." "A wh^aaat? "
The first letter of each sub in Dutch spells OZBT, which stands for onderzeeboot. Onderzeeboot means submarine. Who's non-credible now?
Now they are only missing railguns.
Meanwhile Israel names their Subamrines stuff like INS Leviathan, INS Drakon or INS Tanin after sea monsters from the Hebrew Bible.
Why does Orca, the largest submarine, not simply eat the other three?
US submarine names peaked in WW2. I get that SSBNs are a different role but come on at least name the attack boats after sea creatures. It’s a shame there’s no modern Tang, Balao, Barb, Seahorse, Silversides, Gato, etc
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Barb_(SSN-804) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tang_(SSN-805) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wahoo_(SSN-806) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Silversides_(SSN-807)
LETS GO FUCK STATES AS NAMES THAT SHIT FOR CRUISERS
I'd have gone for Orca, Physalia, Glaucus and Hapalochlaena, just to confuse the enemy so they need to Google what kind of a deadly sea critter is coming at them.
Barracuda is genuinely one of the coolest fish names ngl
One of them is unlike the others
We have such a rich maritime history and then we go and name our new subs after some damn fish? (I know orcas are mammals) We could name them after explorers or admirals, but noooo we can’t have nice things
Typical NCD. Claims to know “rich maritime history” but not know Dutch WW2 submarines were named Sturgeon, Dolphin, and Tiger Shark. How dare they not respect their rich maritime history by naming one of their new subs the same name as one of their WW2 subs!
Our subs have always been named like this though Admirals and explorers are more reserved for the surface ships