This is such a German thing, like only a German could do that because it's so dumb and without any finesse at all.
I mean the whole ship is a German CORVETTE. If you know anything about ships, a corvette is like the lamest warship. The Russians have some interesting designs with like 8 or 16 killer anti ship missiles and they are called missile corvettes, but the German ships don't have anything like that, they're just boring coastal patrol vessels, basically. I'm sure the Thames has seen more impressive ships, and even the dumb German navy has bigger and more impressive ships (which still suck, but they're bigger) so one of those lame duck corvettes playing the Imperial March is just wrong.
And on top of that the whole thing is so German, like the captain is a dull rules-obsessed boomer officer, and he probably really though he was so funny and did a great practical joke, but of course it comes out all wrong and coarse. And then on top of that, THE BRITISH ACTUALLY REPORT IT AS FUNNY! Don't you guys have some self respect. Like Donald Trump says, sad!
It's basically the same class of ship the US, China, and Russia use as coast guard cutters. I often find it more than a little entertaining how most Navies outside the great powers label as warships what amount to coastal patrol vessels meant for civilian police actions in litoral water. Is something really a blue water Navy when you don't even have the ships to assemble a Navy strike group (1 cruiser for command & control, 3 to 6 destroyers, and 1 attack submarine)?
This is such a German thing, like only a German could do that because it's so dumb and without any finesse at all.
I mean the whole ship is a German CORVETTE. If you know anything about ships, a corvette is like the lamest warship. The Russians have some interesting designs with like 8 or 16 killer anti ship missiles and they are called missile corvettes, but the German ships don't have anything like that, they're just boring coastal patrol vessels, basically. I'm sure the Thames has seen more impressive ships, and even the dumb German navy has bigger and more impressive ships (which still suck, but they're bigger) so one of those lame duck corvettes playing the Imperial March is just wrong.
And on top of that the whole thing is so German, like the captain is a dull rules-obsessed boomer officer, and he probably really though he was so funny and did a great practical joke, but of course it comes out all wrong and coarse. And then on top of that, THE BRITISH ACTUALLY REPORT IT AS FUNNY! Don't you guys have some self respect. Like Donald Trump says, sad!
It's basically the same class of ship the US, China, and Russia use as coast guard cutters. I often find it more than a little entertaining how most Navies outside the great powers label as warships what amount to coastal patrol vessels meant for civilian police actions in litoral water. Is something really a blue water Navy when you don't even have the ships to assemble a Navy strike group (1 cruiser for command & control, 3 to 6 destroyers, and 1 attack submarine)?
Or to put it the other way around: what much of the world considers a warship, the hyper-militarized US uses as a speedboat for lake cops.
German corvettes are very chunky though. They're quite a lot larger than Russian and Chinese ones.
Their Baden-Württemberg class frigate is a destroyer in all but name. It's fairly close to the size of a few missile cruisers.