1400 ZULU

e [Music] w [Music] every year Britain relies on ships for a foreign trade worth £7,000 million aircraft could carry perhaps a 100th part of it oceans cover 3/4 of the Earth's surface and without ships Britain would starve to death in 14 days in times of Peace the merchant vessels combat natural hazards in times of War they are the prime targets of the enemy the Royal Navy's major task is to protect the merchant vessels and the shipping lanes in times of War it fights in times of Peace it trains to fight the defense Ministry in London is the nerve center of the Navy it's a magnet that attracts signals from every continent ships attaches and agents Supply the reports analyses and Intelligence on which is based the Strategic deployment of the [Music] fleet from its operations room and others like it on overseas bases the movements are 400 ship and 100,000 men are controlled at this moment at any moment the Navy ships Encompass the globe from the Arctic Ocean to the Ross sea at this moment it's 1400 Zulu in Navy time 2:00 in the afternoon in White Hall north of Bermuda it's 10 a.m. as a guided missile destroyer heads West Norwest to revu with a tanker 3,000 m east near jalter at400 an aircraft carrier prepares a division of Buccaneers their air Crews already being briefed on a low-level strike in support of a Royal Marines exercise a further 5,000 m Eastward it's early evening of Singapore where a Cruiser's attack radar scans for The Echoes that will be her toad Target slipping into position 12 M down range it's 1400 Zulu in the North Sea where a coastal mine sweeper rolls on for her fifth sweep of the day over a World War II Minefield the mines should by now be harmless but for the safety of the world shipping they are still being destroyed it's mid-afternoon southeast of mola and a Commando ship will soon be dis embarking Vehicles weapons and men for a tactical training ground in the Mediterranean this will be her last exercise before she sails through the SE Canal for the Far East station it's 5:00 p.m. off Aiden where a frig and her consort are hunting somewhere in the vastness of their exercise area is a submerged submarine the fr's job to seek locate destroy it's a job that involves some 550 50 men modern Electronics higher mathematics and oldfashioned luck Pro not sir revolutions [Music] 96 re very impulses sent out from the sonar control room bounce back from submarines and from cold water layers shs of fish and large lumps of seaweed modern still secret equipment is more selective but it still relies on the operators for positive identification their initial training takes months perfecting the technique takes years it's training for the submarine too a chance to perfect the knife edge balance between evasion and Destruction for 20 slow head together 33 bring all B tubes to the action State bring all B tubes to the [Music] State at 10:30 north of Bermuda the guided missile destroyer comes in a stern of the tanker for refueling in a nuclear age the Navy accepts the destruction of its ports and Shore facilities and the replenishment fleet can keep ships totally independent of shore installations for weeks even months at a time ships of the royal fet auxiliary operate under an elogical system which is uniquely British for they are manned by Merchant Navy personnel who fly the blue enen and hold Union GS it's to their credit that no operation has ever been delayed through shortage of stores ammunition or [Music] oil to land 600 Marines in a political Hotpot may need the backing of 5,000 men and a dozen ships all of them carriers destroyers landing craft and frigs work to a program that's timed to the last [Music] second 60 minutes from zero Hour 3 m off the coast Marine Frogman of the special boat section start work their job the destruction of underwater obstacles to clear the approaches for the landing craft [Music] 4 3 2 1 start up 0us 35 engine startup time for the buccaneer [Music] [Music] is 0- 30 the LCA with their Marine assault troops are slipped from the Commando ship they are timed to hit the beach as soon as the underwater obstacles are [Music] destroyed zus 25 in the carrier the first entries are made on the operations board 14351 9 clear Taxi [Music] give you that two directed from the carrier the Buccaneers targets are bridges Fuel and ammo dumps Supply columns anything that will delay the enemy's reinforcements [Music] 0 -5 acid is dissolving copper discs in the demolition charge detonators as the special boat section is snatched back [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] 3 2 1 start up [Music] stes 1 to six load aircraft on spots 1 to six now 10 minutes to Zer hour the helicopters load up with the troops who will be dropped in as soon as the landing zone is clear [Music] the LCA hit the beach in war they would be supported by the combined Firepower of the task force and fixed Wing aircraft [Music] [Music] zero Alpha this is sunrise fit seagulls fetch seagulls over Oscar the wind is red 20 2 kns over hcar take off [Music] get helicopters have changed the tactics of War they drop men into desert and jungle and keep them supplied with weapons and ammunition now they've become a ground support weapon in their own right eny destroy now out [Music] 2,000 M Southeast is another sea and an unfinished exercise the frigs have been torpedoed twice now they come in again to the attack speed 18 knots over 20 20 revolutions 146 steer 2 60 the brigate sonar pings out supersonic Transmissions the submarine steel H reflects them back to be picked up measured and plotted H's splits bearing 07 0 and 13 0 both getting louder action mot 26 is coming right to [Music] 290 bearing toing left 290 1,700 e 5 high estimated Subway C8 Z indicating six 80 ft range out changeing scale 15 range in range 1500 y pull ah head together pull ahhe together 150 ft 150 ft sir both of gas for let get group [Music] three engag of Morts SC controlling engage with SC controlling the brackets the submarine's evasion tactics are too late the mors are locked electronically to their target now they will follow it like a shadow making automatic allowances for roll and pitch and changes in depth speed and direction they fire only when they know they're within killing range that's it fire the smoke candle in times of Peace an anti-submarine frigate doesn't kill its Target from the position of the floating projectile to the submarine smoke candle you can tell if you've scored a [Music] bull mines reflect the Ingenuity of the military engineer for they may be triggered by contact magnetism noise or even a shadow but the sweepers with their wooden hulls and secret electronic equipment can find and deal with most of [Music] them the mines can be exploded by toad wires by sound waves or by electrical impulses from the sweeper's own generators [Music] off Singapore the Cruiser's radar has found her [Music] Target the last of the conventionally Armed warships the modern Cruisers have weapons of fantastic accuracy and Firepower her 6in guns can fire 20 shells a minute from each Barrel her 3 in fire like a heavy machine gun her computers allow for Speed wind range temperature even rotation of the [Music] earth Road sides engage shoot I [Music] soon the Cruisers will cease fire forever as a new class takes over the guided missile destroyer has a performance and Firepower as advanced as the first ironclad warship was over the wooden Hull her steam engines are boosted by gas turbines for high speed and instant Readiness she can be conned completely from below decks she can pass harmlessly through nuclear fallout because her pre-wetting system prevents contamination [Music] computers and transistors are the heart of the modern Navy but a battle could be lost through a loose connection the Sailor of today needs to know more about Electronics than hoisting mels the guided missile destroyer's living accommodation is air conditioned and just about as spacious and comfortable as you can get on a ship which was primarily designed as a floating weapon system okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hands to action stations hands to action [Music] stations this is PC Captain is requested to come to the offer over all Captain I got off uh my airs are foul on the raid closing request alteration of course 45 the guided missile destroyer's role is anti-aircraft and anti-submarine task force defense should aircraft penetrate her distant defense she is equipped with cats beam riding missiles of wicked accuracy [Music] to I pr just are her main anti-aircraft defense is the sea slug a supersonic rocket boosted missile SE slug aircraft SE aircraft the sea slug's performance is secret but its guidance system is such that on Trials it has scored a bullseye every time Target on this nothing is permanent in the field of Defense the more recent ships have gas turbines for instant Readiness and to boost their already high speeds most the modern ships carry helicopters which have their own dipping sonar to find submarines their own homing Torpedoes to kill them even the smallest frot has its was an anti-submarine weapon in its own right the latest anti-submarine weapon is itself a submarine the hunter killer nuclear powered monsters that only need refueling every 5 years they are so fast that they Bank when turning dive so deep that a crash program of seabed charting had to be completed for [Music] them they can circumnavigate the world underwater and their submerged time is only limited by the endurance of their Crews tactical changes and weapon advances need continuous development programs this was the first landing of a VL aircraft on a carrier anywhere in the world vertical takeoff and Landing aircraft continue to be evaluated [Music] the mark 2 buccaneer has been developed into a faster longer ranged aircraft compliment to the Phantom the Navy's missiles will include Polaris a submarine launched weapon with an InterContinental range the development goes on weapon systems propulsion units strategy and tactics are changing yearby year for the Navy is ready round the world Round the [Music] Clock day and night from the equator to the polar regions at 1,000 ft below sea level and 50,000 above the Navy exercises develops and trains trains for National Security trains for worldwide emergency trains for the battles that may never come because of the deterrent value of the royal Navy