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Please note that most of these Brand Names are registered Trade Marks, Company Names or otherwise controlled and their inclusion in this index is. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. After being taken down twice by Blogger within a single week, we got the message Its Time To Go. Gates of Vienna has moved to a new address. The 5,200t Type 42 Sheffield Class destroyers were designed in the late 1960s to provide fleet area airdefense for Britains Royal Navy, after the proposed Type 82. More new posts will be added below this one. Oh, and dont mess around with JIM. The essay below is the conclusion of the ninth part in a series by Takuan Seiyo. See the list at the bottom of this post for links to the previous installments. Left Pierre Auguste Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1. Right George Grosz, Metropolis, 1. The Bee and the Lamb. Joint Operations Typhoon Rising Patch Southampton' title='Joint Operations Typhoon Rising Patch Southampton' />Part 9 continuedBy Takuan Seiyo. A Whole New Road to Serfdom. That Which is Not Seen continuedFor over 6. White mea culpists have had a firm grip in all fields of cultural mind imprinting education high and low paper media, then electronic, then digital media all forms of entertainment, the plastic arts and music high and low, and religious instruction and worship too. Their main endeavor has been to enforce their compulsory e. K 1. 2 and discretionary e. Slavery, Colonialism, Imperialism, Male Supremacism, Racism, Antisemitism, and so on. Its the evils of the Iberian Inquisition which were evil but not the evils of the Japanese equivalent in which, in the 4. Christians were publicly crucified, burned or beheaded. Nor the evils of the worldwide Islamic Inquisition which not in the 1. Muslim apostates to barbaric execution. L1%2520CrossFit%2520Strong.JPG' alt='Joint Operations Typhoon Rising Patch Southampton' title='Joint Operations Typhoon Rising Patch Southampton' />Its Americas destruction of the snail darter but not Mussulmanisms destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas or its proposed destruction of the Sphinx and the Pyramids, let alone its obliteration of all the pre Rome cradles of Christianity but for remaining ruins in the Middle East and dust of the desert in North Africa. Its the evils of feudalism and industrial workers exploitation in Europe and America, but not the strict Confucian evils of Northeast Asia. There, a member of the ruling class in China had, essentially, a free hand with anyone of the lower classes, a Japanese samurai could test his sword by cutting down an insolent peasant, and farmers were so squeezed by their fief holders that they habitually sold their daughters to bordellos for the few coins it provided for next seasons seed. Feminism, Socialism and anti Antisemitism should have arisen in Saudi Arabia or Yemen, Algeria or Peshawar, for good reasons. Instead, aggressive White androphobes of all genders which I can no longer count are decimating the philogynous and egalitarian West. Equality psychos are tearing down the most egalitarian society that ever existed except for initial communist experiments, before they turned bloody. American Jews, at the apex of the greatest fortune and philosemitic tolerance their long diaspora has ever bestowed on their kind, are busy supporting all the ideologies and policies that demolish their safe harbor and build up their Muslim, Black and Third World enemies. They will come to rue their tacit assumption that better the antisemite you dont know than the few hundred imputed and real ones catalogued at ADL. One would be hard put to find a nation not based on the invasion of another peoples territory and their mass slaughter. Yet poisoned American madmen proclaim No Thanks for Thanksgiving as though the Indians themselves did not fight endless genocidal wars from Peru to Canada, with torture, ritual murder or slavery for the captives and, at times, cannibalism too. Leftoid masochists and the Christian meek call for returning Hawaii to the Hawaiians and capitulating before a massive Mexican reconquista of one third of America. The self defined Feminist Tauist Neo. Pagan Post Structuralist Deconstructionist Socialist useful idiot Gillian Schutte begins her New Year 2. Dear White People by wholeheartedly apologizing for what my ancestors did to the people of South Africa and inviting you to do the same. Yet the Magyars dont seem to feel much guilt over the Illyrians, Pannonians, Sarmatians and Celts whose land and lives they took in the 9th century, to form Hungary. The rightful Etruscan landowners are not bearing angry placards in front of the Vatican. The Japanese are not planning to relinquish Hokkaido to its original owners, the Ainu. The tall, white and fair haired Chachapoyas of the Andean forest have, alas, no remnants left to sue the Incas for genocide in a Peruvian court of law. The Aztecs, whether in Jalisco or Los Angeles, dont agonize over having taken what would become Mexico City from its original Culhuacan owners, with lots of grisly details. Yet for 3. 8 years Neil Young has been reminding adoring audiences about Cortez the Killer, discreetly omitting Tlacaelel the killer and the killer people whom Cortez killed. Hitlers Willing Executioners Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust 1. Daniel Goldhagen presenting the thesis that the German nation as such was composed of willing executioners of the Jews because of a unique eliminationist antisemitism in the German people, with long historical roots. However, even that great moral abyss of Western civilization the Holocausts stands out more in its industrialized and organizational features than it does either in the quality of its hatefulness or its relative or even absolute volumes. And Holocausts they were, for in addition to the nearly 6 million Jews, the Germans also murdered over 2. Slavs, and thats counting Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Czechoslovakia alone. In absolute numbers, the total number of World War II non German civilian victims of Nazi Germany is smaller than the 5. Bolsheviks in Russia, or Maos 7. China, or the Mughal Muslim genocide of Hindus the latter have their own Holocaust Day on August 1. In relative numbers, in just one year, 1. Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, killed off a total of one million, in a population of 7 million. Tutsi population was erased. Is it more humane to go by a stroke of a blunt machete than by a whiff of Zyklon B The Khmer Rouge murdered at least 2 million Cambodians between 1. Is it more humane to die by wallops from a Cambodian pickaxe handle than by a bullet from a German Mauser Inscription on the back in German Ukraine 1. Jewish Aktion, Ivangorod. There is a special horror attached to the Third Reich, because those were 2. Europeans, Christians, and in many ways the smartest, most civilized people on Earth. But the Holocausts do not prove that Whites are worse than other people, just that they are no better. The history of the Third Reich also proves that with the right formula of economic blowup, misery and humiliation, sparked by charismatic evil, no people are immune to such horror, at no time. Britains Shrinking Air Defense Fleet. Daring Classclick to view fullThe 5,2. Type 4. 2 Sheffield Class destroyers were designed in the late 1. Britains Royal Navy, after the proposed Type 8. Labour Government in 1. Britain built 1. 4 of the Type 4. To replace them, the Royal Navy planned to induct 1. Type 4. 5 Daring Class destroyers. The Daring class would be built to deal with a new age of threats. Saturation attacks with supersonic ship killing missiles, that fly from the ships radar horizon to ship impact in under 4. The reality of future threats from ballistic missiles, and WMD proliferation. Plus a proliferation of possible threats involving smaller, hard to detect enemies like UAVs. Overall, the Type 4. Type 4. 5s in other key roles. A reduced 6 ship program moved forward. The Type 4. 5 Destroyer Program. HMS Southampton a Type 4. A total of 1. 4 Type 4. HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry were sunk in the 1. Convert Files. Falklands War, and Birmingham, Newscastle, Glasgow, Cardiff, and Southampton are no longer in service. Another 2 have been downgraded by removing their defensive Sea Dart missiles as an economy measure, and are in reserve, leaving just 5 operational ships. The Type 4. 5 destroyer project really began when the 8 nation NFR 9. The USA and Canada elected not to pursue a modern frigate at all. Spain developed the 6,2. F1. 00 AEGIS frigate, which it has now sold to Australia as the future Hobart Class. Holland and Germany developed the 5,7. F1. 24 Sachsen LCF De Zeven Provincient Class air defense frigate. The UK, Italy, and France, meanwhile, embarked on the Horizon Class New Generation Common Frigate. In 1. 99. 9, about 7 years after the initial requirement was floated, Britain dropped out of the NGCF project, citing a need for a larger ship, with wider air defense capabilities, and a British combat management system. Italy and France went on to order a total of 4 2 each 6,6. Horizon Class frigates. Rather than using a modified variant of Americas multi role 8,0. DDG 5. 1 Arleigh Burke Class, whose costs and performance were stable, Britain proposed to develop its own air warfare destroyer, with better high end anti air capabilities. The new 7,3. 50t base 7,8. MBDA PAAMS system, built on its Aster 1. Aster 3. 0 missiles, instead of the popular Raytheon SM 2SM 3 missile family. PAAMS would be complemented by a different set of radar systems on the Type 4. Horizon Class had different radar fittings for each country anyway. HorizonForbin Classclick to view fullPlans originally called for 1. Type 4. 5s. They would restore Britains anti air capability by replacing the 1. Type 4. 2 destroyers, and supplement Britains remaining Type 2. Duke Class limited ability to cope with the newest threats. In July 2. 00. 0, Britain approved expenditure of GBP 5 billion, with a maximum acceptable cost of GBP 5. Type 4. 5 destroyers out of a planned class of 1. The first ship was expected to enter service in November 2. Since then, the project has experienced significant cost increases and delays. At the same time, planned ship buys were cut. The 1. 2 ship plan became 8 Type 4. And the program experienced a full contract renegotiation in 2. Even after that re negotiation, Britains 2. Defence Equipment Report listed the overall program as 3. GBP 9. 89 million almost 2 billion over budget. In June 2. 00. 8, the British government declined its option on Daring Class ships 7 and 8. The NAOs 2. 01. 2 1. Major Projects Report places the overall cost for the 9 year Assessment Phase, the 6 ship Demonstration Manufacture Phase, and initial support at GBP 5. GBP 7. 47 million about 1. Ships of class include D3. HMS Daring D3. 3 HMS Dauntless D3. HMS Diamond D3. 5 HMS Dragon D3. HMS Defender D3. 7 HMS Duncan. Aster 3. 0 test,Longbow bargeclick to view fullThe first of class HMS Daring successfully completed contractor led sea trials in September 2. Royal Navy sea trials in July 2. D3. 2 Daring was formally handed over to the Royal Navy in December 2. February 2. 01. 0. HMS Daring did not fire her 1st air defense missile, however, until May 2. HMS Darings 1st mission began in January 2. HMS Dauntless completed her 2nd set of contractor led sea trials in summer 2. December 2. 00. 9, and was commissioned in June 2. She is now considered to be operational. HMS Diamond began sea trials in October 2. September 2. 01. 0, and was commissioned in May 2. She was deemed ready for operations in December 2. HMS Dragons contractor led trials began in summer 2. She arrived in Portsmouth in September 2. April 2. 01. 2. HMS Defender was launched onto the Clyde in October 2. November 2. 01. 1. She completed 2nd sea trials in April 2. March 2. 01. 3. The 1st construction block of D3. Duncan was moved to berth in January 2. Duncan was formally launched in October 2. First sea trials have taken place, and she sailed into her home port of Portsmouth in March 2. Commissioning took place at the the end of December 2. The Daring Class. Type 4. 5 conceptclick to view fullThe final Type 4. The ships will cruise at 1. WR 2. 1 advanced cycle modular gas turbine engines, with intercooler and exhaust recuperator ICR heat exchangers to reduce fuel consumption. Each turbine will provide 2. MW of power, and the propulsion systems will be built by a team that includes Rolls Royce, Northrop Grumman, and Alsthom Power Conversion Ltd. Expected top speed is 2. HMS Daring reportedly bettered 3. At 1. 90 sailors, the embarked crew will be smaller than previous ships, with better accommodations and provisions for up to 2. The ship will also be able to carry up to 6. Royal Marines. Daring Class weapons will include the 4. Mark 8 Mod 1 gun, and a pair 3. Electro Optic Gun Control System. The ships were not initially fitted with defensive weapons like Raytheons 2. Mk. 15 Phalanx or Thales 3. Goalkeeper for last ditch missile defense and close in kills, but late 2. Phalanx Block 1. B. For anti submarine use, the ships will rely on a multi function MFS 7. Stingray anti submarine torpedoes that must be launched from its helicopters, since the ship carries no torpedo tubes. The ship will also be equipped with the Surface Ship Torpedo Defence System, designed to protect the ship against the threat of advanced current and future torpedoes. The embarked helicopters will initially be Lynx HMA Mark 8s, but could eventually be EH1. Merlins or AW1. 59 Lynx Wildcats, with all associated weapons. Since the Type 4. Quick tourclick for video. The Type 4. 5s main armament is its PAAMS air defense system, now known as Sea Viper. Sea Viper has several components. The ships radars are what will really set it apart from previous vessels. BAEs SAMPSON is an dual face, active array, digital beamforming radar that operates in the EF bands, and can continuously and simultaneously illuminate a large number of targets for surveillance and fire control. It will be supplemented by the Long Range Radar LRR, which is an evolution of Thales SMART L active array volume search radar. The ThalesMarconi S1. M operates in the D band, for wide air and surface search that can include ballistic missile tracking. A digital Vigile DPX R ESM system from Thales will help the destroyers monitor the electromagnetic environment around them, picking up on key items like incoming missile radars. Thales Vigile is designed to operate in electro magnetically crowded environments, like the near shore littoral zones. Once targets are detected, BAEs combat system will be able to call on the ships 4. Sylver A5. 0 vertical launcher system VLS. That means a mix of up to 4. Aster 1. 5s with a 3. Aster 3. 0s with an 8. Smaller Sylver A4. A3. 5 launchers can quad pack 4 short range Crotale NGVT 1 missiles per cell, but these weapons are not expected to be part of the Type 4. Other roles beyond air defense and anti submarine duties are possible for the Daring Class. These ships will be able to act as a base platform for a deployable headquarters, and will be able to embark up to 6.