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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.