• 小莱卡
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      Its fucking cringe, and they even double down by naming them after monarchs 🥴

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        Historical RN naming scheme was quite fun, especially when ships with names like “Invincible” were obliterated by single salvo, but nowadays it’s almost as boring as US Navy.

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          9 months ago

          The USification of World culture and its consequences

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            Inflexible

            This one wasn’t even the funniest, look at the previous ship of that name, they for some reason copied Italy’s most crazed design and of course came up with a worse version, not to mention even the base idea while it could have some merit for Italy, had no sense whatsoever for UK.

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            Britain, refusing to bend to the waves since King Knut. Their royals have a flair for dramatic irony.