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Lordroel wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 4:49 pm Photo: After the Armistice, Royal Navy frigate HMS Rothesay escorts a Whiskey Class sub away from UK waters, October 1989.

Why do I have a vision of them putting a tow line over and saying, "It followed us home, can we keep it?"

Poohbah wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 5:41 pm

Lordroel wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 4:49 pm Photo: After the Armistice, Royal Navy frigate HMS Rothesay escorts a Whiskey Class sub away from UK waters, October 1989.

Why do I have a vision of them putting a tow line over and saying, "It followed us home, can we keep it?"

Just don't put it on the rocks.

Little surprised they don't have guns trained on it.

jemhouston wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 6:31 pm
Little surprised they don't have guns trained on it.

Ramming speed is faster.

Lordroel wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 6:33 pm

jemhouston wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 6:31 pm
Little surprised they don't have guns trained on it.

Ramming speed is faster.

Unless it has a reinforced bow, it will do major damage to HMS Rothesay.

Photo: HMS Naiad (F39) burning after hit by three Soviet anti ship missiles, 1987.

(OOC: that is unless Bernard Woolley says otherwise).

OOC: took me a while but i finnaly found this photo again.

Photo: a BAe Tempest leads a formation during V Day flyover in London (1989/1990). Behind it can be seen a Tornado ADV, then a Tornado GR.1, flanking it are the Hawk 100 and 200, and riding outboard are the Harrier GR.5 and Sea Harrier.

Photo: Using former Soviet captured BTR-152 in service with US Military Police, Indianapolis, 1990s period.

Photo: HMS Intrepid (L11) of the coast of Florida in 1989 during the Cuba Blockade. HMS Intrepid was the flagship for the British participation of the planned American/British and Canadian invasion of Cuba set late March 1990. The invasion never happen due to Fidel's finally giving in to the Armistice and putting the planned invasion which had the name of BUCCANEER FURY into History's "What-if" category.

More like Thank God we didn't have to do it.

Here a photo of HMS Fearless, sister ship to HMS Intrepid during the liberation of Iceland, behind here Icelandic fishing boat that was used to assist HMS Fearless is seen sinking after being hit Soviet shore artillery, 1987.

A prewar pic: a P-3 out of NAF Misawa, Japan and the Kirov-class BCGN Freunze, May, 1985:

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 4:00 am A prewar pic: a P-3 out of NAF Misawa, Japan and the Kirov-class BCGN Freunze, May, 1985:

On her way to the EASTPAC Eskadra.

Photo: USS Ranger (CV-61) in the background with USS Missouri in the foreground during the First Kamthatka Raid codenamed VERMONT CEDAR, 1987. VERMONT CEDAR involved a multi-carrier battlegroup, a surface action group centered on the USS Missouri, EASTERN EXPRESS strikes from Hong Kong, and special operations support from, of all branches, the Air Force.

When we send in the battleships, you know that means we want to make it special death for you.

jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:35 pm When we send in the battleships, you know that means we want to make it special death for you.

And everyone within a hundred yards of you.

Belushi TD

Belushi TD wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 10:46 pm

jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:35 pm When we send in the battleships, you know that means we want to make it special death for you.

And everyone within a hundred yards of you.

Belushi TD

Rated as true

Photo: A rare shot of three out of the four Resolution Class SSBNs taken just after the end of World War III at Loch Long, 1989. Nearest camera is HMS Repulse (S23), HMS Renown (S26) in the lead, and furthest is HMS Resolution (S22), missing from the shot is HMS Revenge (S27) the only Western SSBN to have fired missiles in action when it fired a Polaris missile at Argentina's main naval base to prevent a second Falklands invasion.

Sending a message?

jemhouston wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 9:19 pm Sending a message?

If they wanted to send a message they would have HMS Revenge (S27) in the lead.

Lordroel wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 9:28 pm

jemhouston wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 9:19 pm Sending a message?

If they wanted to send a message they would have HMS Revenge (S27) in the lead.

With the door to the missile tube that fired the Polaris missile at Puerto Belgrano open…