Falklands40: The Loss of HMS Ardent
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What's Amazing About Warfare Training?
There was the noise of jets roaring over at very, very low levelas didn't want to go any higher. The bombas going off, this huge explosion in the ship shuddering and shaking when that happened. But more annoying was all the bloody alarms. Once we've been hit a few times, it was a night you couldn't speak on any microphones. Trying to get a message from the engine room. You had to send a runner down. When you send the runner down, suddenly, he doesn't come back. He's been injured or something. So clearly the training did actually work. It iswhere yo orse than the army, because you've got fire, you
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