In January last year, the Russian Navy brushed aside pleas from Dublin by announcing a major military exercise slap bang in the middle of Ireland’s fishing grounds. The country’s fishermen had other ideas: they refused to leave waters to the south of the country and maintained a round-the-clock presence, thus preventing the Russian warships from carrying out the drill.

Now it’s happened again. Norwegian fishermen have pulled off a similar victory against the might of the Russian Navy. Their successful efforts are a reminder that national security involves the whole of society — and that the best ideas don’t always come from the government or think tanks.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident

      The Dogger Bank incident (also known as the North Sea Incident, the Russian Outrage or the Incident of Hull) occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy mistook a British trawler fleet from Kingston upon Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo boats and fired on them, also firing on each other in the chaos of the melée.

      Could be worse.

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        Two things I’ve learned from Drachinifel’s videos about Imperial Russia’s Navy:

        1. The imaginary Japanese torpedo boats are everywhere!
        2. …and then it got worse.
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      The Russian navy has never been anything other than a complete and utter laughing stock

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        Not quite the Russian navy, but during the Cold War, I’d place the Soviet Navy pretty comfortably as the second-most-powerful navy in the world.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Navy

        467,000 personnel (1984)[1]
        1,057 ships (1990)
        1,172 aircraft (1990)
        5 aircraft carriers (1990)
        2 helicopter carriers (1990)
        3 battlecruisers
        30 cruisers
        45 destroyers
        113 frigates
        124 corvettes
        63 ballistic missile submarines
        72 cruise missile submarine
        68 nuclear attack submarine
        63 conventional attack submarine
        9 auxiliary submarines
        35 amphibious warfare ships
        425 patrol boats

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          Having all the ships in the world isn’t going to help you when the people operating them are incredibly incompetent

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    The fishermen were there to render aid in case one or more of the russki navy ships joins Moskva.