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🗓️ 1 July 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Do you know what that woulda won't work as it is? |
0:04.3 | Do you know what that woulda woulda? |
0:11.5 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish A Weekly Podcast coming to you from the Otter Belly in London, South Bank. My name is Dan Schreiber. |
0:21.0 | Please welcome to the stage in his Etich Zitsky, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin! |
0:30.0 | And once again we have gathered around the table with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go. |
0:54.2 | Starting with my fact this week, my fact is that the way to defeat the British Royal Navy's most advanced destroyer ship is to put it in warm water. |
1:06.5 | So the British have spent a billion on six massive destroyer ships. These are ships that in their press release said this is the most advanced technology. |
1:16.0 | These are the most advanced ships of all time going into the oceans. It turns out that their engines can't take warm water. |
1:24.3 | And so if they go to the Persian Gulf, for example, the whole ship just breaks. |
1:29.2 | It's just completely break. |
1:30.3 | Would we ever want to go to the Persian Gulf? It's dangerous there. |
1:34.8 | Yeah. |
1:35.6 | We should just start was in Iceland. |
1:37.6 | Yeah. |
1:39.8 | The defence was that they weren't anticipating having to go somewhere like the Gulf. |
1:43.2 | So John Hunson, who's a managing director of BAE system, said the operating profile at the time was that there would not be continuous operations in the Gulf. |
1:52.7 | As if that was just out of the question at the time that we'd end up there. |
1:56.5 | So yeah, they didn't expect to have to go anywhere. |
1:59.0 | There was a response from the MOD. They said this is quote from the FT article. |
2:03.3 | The MOD added that the ships remained one of the most capable warships on the planet. |
2:09.0 | But only parts of the planet. |
2:11.3 | The Rolls Royce booksman said this is not the fault of Rolls Royce. It is the laws of physics. |
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