Адмиралы смеялись над ним в лицо, а он поставил на колени Иран!

Admirals laughed at him to his face, but he brought Iran to its knees! The incredible story of the British Type 23 frigates—ships whose design was openly ridiculed by the Ministry of Defence, but which became the Royal Navy's most war-torn ships of the last 40 years. From the derided design of a cheap floating microphone to combat vehicles born from the blood of the Falklands War. 30 years of real-life operations around the world: fire support for amphibious assaults in Iraq, nighttime shelling of Gaddafi positions near Misrata, convoying Syrian chemical weapons through active combat zones, intercepting 250 million pounds worth of cocaine in the Caribbean, and a lone standoff with Iran in the Strait of Hormuz—115 direct clashes with the Revolutionary Guard Corps and over 1,000 days without returning home. And in 2024, the thirty-year-old frigate rose above the Red Sea, shot down Houthi combat drones, and proved to everyone that it was too early to decommission it. Music: Eyes of Glory — Aakash Gandhi, Duty Calls — Rod Kim. Historical photographs taken from archive.org and are publicly available.