HMS Diamond

what are some of the moments from that series that you still think about now what were some of your favorite moments

it would be oh that's like many but i do like going into like restaurant takeover oh my favorite one and i still remember one is um there was one episode where we were on board onto the hms diamond and then we have to cook for like i think 120 like navy

okay that's really

cool that's like we weren't we don't know where we're going in the morning so we got picked up they didn't really blindfolded us that way but it was similar the van was like pitch black they didn't tell us anything the van has been driving for like maybe two hours away from London we're like where are we going and then like you know some people were guessing we must be by the seaside or something

And at a peak, they said we're going to...

It was the Type 45 Destroyer, and when that was new, so it was HMS Diamond, I think, and it was out in... just off the coast of Scotland, and they were doing some trials anyway, and they said, yeah, we'll give it full left, full right, and see how it goes.

But the person who was driving it at the time was 18 years old, the person at the helm, because the Navy just say, well, you're good enough, you'll do it.

And to be fair, it's largely somebody else is telling them where to go.

But if it were launched from Russia, we fundamentally don't have ballistic missile interceptors.

There's a, there's a lot of talk about the Type 45s, which is the, you know, the air defense destroyer, and one of them, HMS Diamond, I think, shot down an anti-ship ballistic missile in the Gulf a couple of years ago.

But, like, that's a bit of an outlier.

They haven't actually had the full ballistic missile upgrades to their Sea Viper system yet.