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Wolfman wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 1:32 amGood point, Bernard.
Looks like in @ he was in South Africa until 1989, when he arrived in Canada. So, I guess he would be alive in the RD-verse. OTOH, he was thrown down some stairs and beaten badly when he called a fellow school pupil who had just lost his father to suicide stupid. Perhaps he’s less lucky and ends up with life changing injuries, or worse.
I would think that maybe the RD-verse US Government might be less tolerant of someone getting money out of them by claiming to already have been money from a car manufacturer. And vice versa.
It fell, Lordroel, and the Soviet and Cuban forces also took USS Prairie (AD-15) along with it when she ducked into Guantanamo Bay to avoid a hurricane…
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Wolfman wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2025 12:28 pm
It fell, Lordroel, and the Soviet and Cuban forces also took USS Prairie (AD-15) along with it when she ducked into Guantanamo Bay to avoid a hurricane…
Did the US retake it during the Cuban blockade ore was it handed back over.
Theodore Roosevelt put to sea with CVW-8 while Nimitz was in Norfolk, getting a full repair for her damage on Day One. The job done in Haifa by the workers flown there was good enough, but a full repair meant time in Norfolk.
The difference between diplomacy and war is this: Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell so elegantly that they pack for the trip.
War is bringing hell down on that someone.
No, but FB-111s did-the Mark-62, 63, and 64 series of Quickstrike mines were based on the Mark-82 and the Mark-84 dumb bombs, which the Vark regularly carried. SAC Varks could and did seed parts of the Baltic Sea with those mines. The B-52s seeded the Kurils and Kamchatka.
The difference between diplomacy and war is this: Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell so elegantly that they pack for the trip.
War is bringing hell down on that someone.
Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 4:51 am
No, but FB-111s did-the Mark-62, 63, and 64 series of Quickstrike mines were based on the Mark-82 and the Mark-84 dumb bombs, which the Vark regularly carried. SAC Varks could and did seed parts of the Baltic Sea with those mines. The B-52s seeded the Kurils and Kamchatka.
So i assume the mine laying was not that far ahead when the Battle of the Baltic Exits happen in 1987
Correct: too many missions and not enough assets. And Soviet minesweeping, to its credit, did a good job in clearing some paths. But not all, and a few ships did become minesweepers-once.
The difference between diplomacy and war is this: Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell so elegantly that they pack for the trip.
War is bringing hell down on that someone.
Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 8:36 am
Correct: too many missions and not enough assets. And Soviet minesweeping, to its credit, did a good job in clearing some paths. But not all, and a few ships did become minesweepers-once.
Also East Germany would be busy in sweeping mines, they had a good mine sweeping force as well.