this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2025
21 points (95.7% liked)

Australian News

720 readers
43 users here now

A place to share and discuss news relating to Australia and Australians.

Rules
  1. Follow the aussie.zone rules
  2. Keep discussions civil and respectful
  3. Exclude profanity from post titles
  4. Exclude excessive profanity from comments
  5. Satire is allowed, however post titles must be prefixed with [satire]
Recommended and Related Communities

Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:

Plus other communities for sport and major cities.

https://aussie.zone/communities

Banner: ABC

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 12 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] mtpender@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Was someone on-board losing a COD match?

[–] Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Shit this joke is good.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

In this case it’s His Majesty’s Asshole Ship Canberra.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 12 points 2 days ago

Well, if you can't test your electronic warfare systems against your closest ally, who can you test them on?

[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.

[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, how is it untypical?

[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that flagships aren’t safe.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about the harm to the environment?

[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, the ship's navigation radar has been tuned outside the spectrum.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

World Communications without New Zealand

[–] Tau@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago

Time to bring back the 'Feel the Power of Canberra' licence plate slogan!

It's a real reminder to consider edge cases when designing systems though - if you're using frequencies reserved for radar there should really have been a fallback option for when someone actually shows up and uses their radar...