tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post7288663341939785893..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: Sloppy journalism (as usual)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-74336673129243504602011-04-08T11:23:28.398+02:002011-04-08T11:23:28.398+02:00That happens to me as well. It's a difficult n...That happens to me as well. It's a difficult name change for many of those who served at a time when everybody still called the navy "Bundesmarine".<br />So as long as they don't call it "Kriegsmarine"...S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-60585844737558716882011-04-08T06:56:24.958+02:002011-04-08T06:56:24.958+02:00Not to count the many times the "Bundesmarine...Not to count the many times the "Bundesmarine" resurfaced in news.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-34889942648044914032011-04-04T11:19:26.256+02:002011-04-04T11:19:26.256+02:00I've seen a Heckler & Koch MP5 called a ma...I've seen a Heckler & Koch MP5 called a machine gun and the MP7 called a "Sturmgewehr", the Mk-144 Guided Missile Launcher for the RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile called a "Stalinorgel", the old Rhein-class navy tenders called destroyers, the PzH 2000 called a tank, automatic pistols called a revolver, a rifle called a "Flinte" and the above mentioned A-10 called a "Düsenjäger"<br /><br />To me, it is indeed often sloppy reporting or pure ignorance, but sometimes there's an agenda behind these misnomers as they are repeated after being pointed out. A tank or destroyer is more offensive than a howitzer or tender. Nothing better than a "Stalinorgel" to conjure up terrifying images of death and destruction - never mind it is designed as a point-defense missile system.<br /><br />There's not much one can do when one comes across such BS but take the rest of the text with a grain, or better two grains, of salt - if one doesn't want to stop reading completely, that is...ATMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17243526691303581179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-64551160517991575542011-04-03T21:59:02.688+02:002011-04-03T21:59:02.688+02:00As bad as an Austrian Newspaper, that twice alread...As bad as an Austrian Newspaper, that twice already sent Regatten to do the job of Fregatten (frigates). One can just imagine how helpful they would be in enforcing the nofly zone in Lybia...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com