Recently discovered that Australia's new class of submarines will be the Attack class. Sure, there's some history (we used to have a class of patrol boats with the same name) but overall I'm disappointed. Attack class sounds like something a 14 year old comes up with trying to sound badass.
The Poms seem to have the right idea with the Vanguard, Astute and Dreadnought classes, but what of the rest of us?
I feel there are 2 options: 1) The Bonza class: HMAS Bonza, HMAS Crikey (launched by Terri Irwin), HMAS G'Day etc... confuse the world with more of our "language" 2) Go full shitposter with the Cunt class: HMAS What Cunt, HMAS Big Cunt, HMAS G'day Cunt, HMAS Shit Cunt etc...
So, if you had the power to name your country's ship/submarine classes, what are you naming them?
Fukin Poms never had a 'good idea' Name your subs after sharks and keep the shelias off them!
Tyler Rodriguez
Naming after sharks seems tricky. Sure HMAS Great White writes itself (plus it pisses of anyone who isn't white) but who wants to serve on HMAS Grey Nurse or HMAS Whale Shark?
Michael Rodriguez
why dont you cheeky cunts name them after flora or fauna or abo shit or your victoria cross winners?
Kayden Ramirez
We would name them after fauna, but no one would be brave enough to get aboard the HMAS Emu. To say nothing of the HMAS Cassowary...
Justin Lopez
bongs had the worst naming conventions >name ship the invincible >it gets sunk
Oliver Diaz
We should go with Mabo Class to honour our beautiful indigenous culture.
Noah Smith
fukn Pom GTFO
Ethan Stewart
I've always thought the United States should name ballistic missile submarines after serial killers. Why can't I have a USS John Wayne Gacy roaming the seas?
Ethan Thompson
Whoa mate, just cause I sometimes don't use Aussie slang, no need for that kinda vicious insult. Dog cunt, rat bastard, whatever, but don't you go callin me a pom
Jaxson Campbell
I'd serve on the USS Ted Bundy
Kayden Walker
I can actually see HMAS Mabo working, but what are the other ships? I guess the HMAS Jandamurra, but after that I'm short on ideas. Maybe the HMAS Ernie Dingo?
Parker Hughes
You want a Bluey, I'll fair dinkum give you one!
Lucas James
I think you're onto something there. If you're going to design a vessel that sneaks about and then kills a bunch of people according to some arbitrary timetable, you may as well name it properly
Dominic Robinson
Wait, you'll give me a ranga? I didn't think we did slavery, even with soulless pricks
Jaxson Collins
yeah I'll go agro w/ you and then we'll have a green one!
William Hall
Alright, you've lost me. I've been out-occa'd. Well played cunt
Nathaniel Evans
HMAS Cathy Freeman
Parker Torres
Some kind of fast-attack craft I guess?
Michael Moore
Anytime, Pussy
Henry Moore
I used to play a board game Called Wooden Ships and Iron Men with some serious naval history grognards, and I would piss them off by (a) playing the Brits, who had the best 72-gunners around IIRC, and (b) giving them silly names.
HMS Infectious HMS Inflection HMS Doubtful HMS Dubious
Things of that sort and nature. Because nothing reduces a history geek to a blathering fury like having your 3-deck Spanish flagship blown up by HMS Infectious.
Luke Foster
>WS&IM
I always knew you were a faggot
Juan Lopez
I mean why not, Canada named it's destroyers after their native tribes twice (Iroquois / Huron / Assiniboin / etcetera ) while their frigates were named after their large towns / cities.
Do the Abos down under have tribes though? Or were they like New Zealand and Hawaiian natives and just one big happy super tribe?
Aaron Fisher
And three quarter of American fielded hardware is named after one bunch of injuns or another. Naming important things with a sort of tongue-in-cheek fuckery attitude is kind of an old thing, and I don't think it'll ever really stop being a thing. A lot of fictional works picked up on this. The Halo series being one of best known for having ships in it having been apparently named by a bunch of drunk Zaporozhian Cossacks. >So, if you had the power to name your country's ship/submarine classes, what are you naming them? Like the shit wrecker that I am, I would probably name them after one of Solomon's 72.
