Australian naval boarding party repel Iranian attackers with salty language. Now why didn't those British soldiers think of that?

The Australian Defence Force says up to five Iranian gunboats tried to capture Australian sailors in the Persian Gulf in December 2004.

A defence spokesman told reporters the four-hour confrontation occurred after Australian navy personnel boarded a grounded cargo ship in the gulf.

The boarding party commander ordered the Australians to reboard the cargo ship.

"He got his boarding party back on to the ship and established a very credible and appropriate defensive position,'' Commodore Gilmore told reporters in Canberra.

The BBC reported earlier today that Iranian naval forces tried to capture the boarding team, but were repelled in the face of machine guns and "highly colourful language".

Now let me get this straight. We are supposed to be afraid of a country whose military members can be defeated by curse words?

I mean fuck, I can probably beat that whole military my own Allah damn self.