Posted on 04/02/2020 3:53:41 PM PDT by lowbridge
A Venezuelan navy ship fired shots at a German-owned cruise ship on March 30 and rammed into the passenger vessel, leading to the sinking of the warship in the Caribbean.
The Iranian regime-allied Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused the captain of the RCGS RESOLUTE cruise ship of “terrorism and piracy" and sought to force the ship into a new direction on the high seas. The cruise ship, which had no passengers on board and was flying under a Portuguese flag, has a reinforced hull that enables it to sail through ice water.
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Don’t build out your navy with chinesium steel.
The local loco commie just shows that socialism always fails.
When can we see the video?
Kind of comical.
And what happened? Did the captain of the Venezuelan Navy ship beg the captain of the cruise ship to save their asses???
Toilet paper pirates. Arrrghhh, we’ll squeeze yer Charmin for ye!
The latest version of McHale’s Navy.
Damn German engineers!!!!
It’s not kinda comical. It is very comical on so many levels I do not know where to begin.
What kind of moron is this Captain? He has guns. Cruise ship has no guns. The warship is faster than the cruise ship.
In light of all these factors we get....
Captain to crew - Prepare to ram and full speed ahead!
Wow.
Was the Captain the same guy who ran the train off the tracks to hit the cruise ship?
What a strange thing to do.
Columbia Cruise Services does not say what kind of gun was fired or if it did any damage to the Resolute. The Naiguatá has a 76mm main gun in a turret forward of the main superstructure, as well as a pair of 20mm cannons and two .50 caliber machine guns. The crew would also have access to various small arms.
photo of the ex-navy ship:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32853/this-venezuelan-patrol-ship-sunk-itself-after-ramming-a-cruise-liner-with-an-reinforced-hull
Isn’t this an act of war?
There is something more going on than we’ve been told so for.
Comments from owner:
“So, there’s nothing much else left to talk about, except to laugh and to applaud RESOLUTE Master. Not many – if any – similar cases in naval history, when defenceless passenger ship sunk Navy battleship, and went away with it.”
Thats a good sized frigate! Dang - I bet few of the guns could actually shoot.. And who knows the status of the ordinance.
Owners of the German ship paid for their load of cocaine with Venezuelan money instead of Euros?
Venezuela declared war on Germany????
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