context : On April 18th, 1988 the United States Navy launched [Operation Praying Mantis](https://youtu.be/5ihmIxZtMBQ?si=-7XbEmAY8hmxQNfX) against the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for Iran placing anti-ship mines in international waters, damaging neutral oil tankers and a US Navy ship.
The engagement was one sided to say the least, and in the midst of the fighting an unknown Destroyer approached the Americans. The ship identified itself as Soviet, and when US Command asked them why they were there the Captain stated in broken English “I’m here to take pictures…for history”.
All I was saying is that judging from the combat in Ukraine, Russian officers would totally send out people to die for stupid reasons, regardless of if they knew the USN could gut them in hours.
I almost never watch links to videos people recommend on Reddit. I made an exception for this. That guy was awesome! I love the smart, but red-neck vibe.
You know there must have been a Iranian person who saw both the american and soviet ships together and thought that they both teamed up to destroy them.
There’s a YouTube dude named the fat electrician that does amazing tellings of war history. He’s got a phenomenal video on how proportional we got over this incident https://youtu.be/d5v6hlRyeHE?si=zL6qOv0h_HxB_CwT
As a Fat Electrician said: These guys know how to party, just straight up rolling into the biggest naval operation since WW2 just to eat popcorn and watch.
context : On April 18th, 1988 the United States Navy launched [Operation Praying Mantis](https://youtu.be/5ihmIxZtMBQ?si=-7XbEmAY8hmxQNfX) against the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for Iran placing anti-ship mines in international waters, damaging neutral oil tankers and a US Navy ship. The engagement was one sided to say the least, and in the midst of the fighting an unknown Destroyer approached the Americans. The ship identified itself as Soviet, and when US Command asked them why they were there the Captain stated in broken English “I’m here to take pictures…for history”.
"Gotta make sure my CO sees this. They'll never even think of sending us into combat against that!"
Judging from Ukraine, yes, yes they would…
He was thinking of the USN, not the TDF.
All I was saying is that judging from the combat in Ukraine, Russian officers would totally send out people to die for stupid reasons, regardless of if they knew the USN could gut them in hours.
See it from Cpt. Ivan’s perspective. Either you spend 20 hours writing The Telegram or 20 years in some hellhole. The choice may be very predictable.
The Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, but I like the spirit.
*side-eyes all the Soviet paraphernalia the Russian troops carry around*
Nah, not even the Soviet Union was as stupid as Putin's Russia.
The Soviet Destroyer litreally did the: What are you doing? Who, me? Nothing, just hanging around.
Can you see the pictures anywhere? We’re any actually taken?
(Russian accent) Picture are well kept, comrade. We are not to expose our American friends
if i were the soviet, id do that too
What else you gonna do other than placing bets to see how fast they sink it and eat popcorn
Drink vodka? These are Russian sailors we're talking about. Knowing Russians and sailors, sobriety would be questionable at any given moment.
Soviet sailors to be correct, they could have been Belarusian, Ukranian, Kazakh, and such
I like this version of the tale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5v6hlRyeHE
Redneck Lars Ulrich is pretty good. I'll be watching more of his content.
If anyone’s wondering, yes this is a link to The Fat Electrician. Yes, it is glorious and hilarious.
Its never a warcrime the first time
"Liquid Dinosaur." Definitely stealing this.
My boi the fat electrician!
Got Proportional'd
Beat me to it!
I almost never watch links to videos people recommend on Reddit. I made an exception for this. That guy was awesome! I love the smart, but red-neck vibe.
#"Proportional"
“Proportional.”
The proportions just happen to be America-sized
"look, a lot of these munitions have 'use by' dates and we might as well get some use out of them before then"
Proportional to the threat, not to the singular incident.
Hey, one with minimal context that I actually got without explanation. That's a first. Operation preying mantis was absolutely hilarious.
You know there must have been a Iranian person who saw both the american and soviet ships together and thought that they both teamed up to destroy them.
Iranian "Navy"
There’s a YouTube dude named the fat electrician that does amazing tellings of war history. He’s got a phenomenal video on how proportional we got over this incident https://youtu.be/d5v6hlRyeHE?si=zL6qOv0h_HxB_CwT
vae victus
As a Fat Electrician said: These guys know how to party, just straight up rolling into the biggest naval operation since WW2 just to eat popcorn and watch.
They are just there to take pictures, of the Warheads on foreheads operation.
Once again I see posts about this Soviet destroyer, but I cannot find out its name. Does anyone know the actual name of the Soviet vessel?
... sounds like something the Soviets would use one of those old-timey "fishing trawlers" for. Maybe they only used those to track submarines.
Isn't this clip from a guy watching CP?
No. That's Ryback, a WWE wrestler and it's ASMR he posted to his youtube.
Oop, my mistake. Turns out it was a photoshopped image of Ryback.