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Wolfman wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 1:49 am
With the door to the missile tube that fired the Polaris missile at Puerto Belgrano open…

Always wondered, a Polaris missile had multiple reentry vehicles and warheads, but only 1 target was hit, did they all hit the same target.

I’m going to have to leave the question to Bernard Woolley…

UK Polaris missiles post Chevaline upgrade generally had two warheads with a yield of 225Kt. Since Chevaline was not a MIRVing system, both warheads would hit in the area of the same target.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 2:01 pm UK Polaris missiles post Chevaline upgrade generally had two warheads with a yield of 225Kt. Since Chevaline was not a MIRVing system, both warheads would hit in the area of the same target.

I do wonder what kind of Intel the Soviets could collect on a live fire of Chevaline at Argentina. It's outside BMEWS coverage, but maybe they got some imagery of the flight?

That it worked as advertised.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 4:59 pm That it worked as advertised.

Thanks for the responds, as a present, here are the three close up.

Here’s HMS Revenge (S27) about to depart on the fateful patrol. That she had a missile symbol on her Skull and Crossbones flag when she returned provoked mix reactions and still does.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 7:25 pm Here’s HMS Revenge (S27) about to depart on the fateful patrol. That she had a missile symbol on her Skull and Crossbones flag when she returned provoked mix reactions and still does.

Always wanted to know what a boomber would have as a symbol for a successful launch, thanks for the answer.

RN SSBN are called bombers. Appropriately for the V boats.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 7:36 pm RN SSBN are called bombers. Appropriately for the V boats.

Boombers are their american cousins, noted.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 7:25 pm Here’s HMS Revenge (S27) about to depart on the fateful patrol. That she had a missile symbol on her Skull and Crossbones flag when she returned provoked mix reactions and still does.

OOC: want to post a date over at AT.com when she fired, but have never found out.

U.S.S. Missouri (BB-63) visits Sydney while on a Postwar WestPac deployment, 1993:

Saying hello to an old friend.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 7:25 pm Here’s HMS Revenge (S27) about to depart on the fateful patrol. That she had a missile symbol on her Skull and Crossbones flag when she returned provoked mix reactions and still does.

Don't start none, won't be none, that was my reaction.

They shouldn’t have tried while Britain was fighting for their survival…

Wolfman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 1:18 am They shouldn’t have tried while Britain was fighting for their survival…

Jumping a guy who's already in a bar fight with a really big dude is a great way to get one's bitch ass shanked.

Photo: The Light Cruiser O'Higgins (CL-02) of the Chilean Navy fires a broadside against a Argentine land position during the Chilean-Argentine War of 1986 when Chile taking advantages of the destruction of the Argentine Navy main naval base by a Royal Navy fired Polaris SLBM on Puerto Belgrano Naval Base and an adjacent Argentine city invaded the Picton, Lennox and Nueva islands, the same island both countries almost went to war with in 1978 (Beagle conflict).

OOC: Matt will this work.

Things got ugly for a while there. It wasn't really apart of WWIII, but you were still just as dead as the people in NYC.

Photo: Iowa-class battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) seen through the periscope of Los Angeles Flight I-class nuclear-powered attack submarine USS La Jolla (SSN-701) during here anti-shipping sweep along the Mexican Pacific Coast, 1988.

Do we know how many submarines the Soviets still had operating of the United States coast as i have at least a half dozen photos of the United states Navy intercepting Soviet submarines on the surface heading home.

Photo: a TARPS-equipped F-14 Tomcat showing a Soviet Victor I class submarine on the surface after the armistice has sign which ordered all Soviet submarines to surface and return back to the nearest port in the Soviet Union, 1989.