@Bob Murphy, The RN always a good reputation with us for professionalism, training and equipment. Their biggest problem being that they are to few and ridiculously under gunned. A 4″ gun is almost useless. The Iranian speedboat incident is certainly the worst day for British forces since the fall of Singapore. For their Army squaddies and officers have a fine reputation when allowed to fight. Hope that some of them get to run for Parliament now and straighten their country out. Basra was shameful.