Cool pic. If you squint....

[West Coast]

You can see a helicopter, so bugger off if you say it doesn't have aviation content.


The Aviationist » [Photo] Periscope of U.S. submarine emerges next to UK aircraft carrier in Middle East waters (http://theaviationist.com/2013/10/04/dallas-illustrious/#.Uk97UBG9KSN)

[JAKL]

Ha! Good try, but 'UK aircraft carrier' who would fall for that! ;)

[Dash8driver1312]

It carries aircraft. Lets not forget who invented the angled flight deck, catapults, and meatball lighting system, old boy.

(Although this class were sold to the government as through-deck cruisers in a little practiced skulduggery...)

[longer ron]

Lets not forget who invented the angled flight deck, catapults, and meatball lighting system, old boy.

And now stupidly does not use any of them :)

[CoffmanStarter]

Even cooler if it had been a Nimrod at low level that took the pic :E

[MAD Boom]

This pic should go down in history - It's about the only time a Merlin has been within a 1000 yards of a submarine.

[Wensleydale]

It's about the only time a Merlin has been within a 1000 yards of a submarine.

I am sure that a Coastal Command Lancaster would have put four of them there at some time in the past.....

[Corporal Clott]

Mad Boom

Au Contraire...

...here is HMS St Alban's Merlin next to a T-boat. :ok:

http://www.aviationtoday.com/Assets/Image/p18_Merlin_with_Sub.jpeg

[Corporal Clott]

And here is ITS Todero (from Italy) from a Royal Navy Merlin.

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg594/scaled.php?server=594&filename=12031401ax41.jpg&res=medium

[West Coast]

Clott
Hate to say it, but your pic trumps mine on the cool scale.

[Pontius Navigator]

If that is a 'periscope' I'm a Dutchman's uncle.

Now the photo from a US cruiser of a Soviet submarine periscope set at 6 o'clock as the captain lost his rag and rammed the cruiser was something else.

I once got a photo of a Foxtrot completely submerged but don't know what I did with the pic :(

[Courtney Mil]

If you belive that's a very tenuous link to smuggle submarine pictures onto PPRuNe, signal with a single "PING".:cool:

[MSOCS]

'One ping only....'

ISTR Dallas being the boat name used in The Hunt For Red October (film version) too!

:ok:

[Pontius Navigator]

And the maritime commandment "Thou shall not flush" unless of course the need to deter greater than the need to destroy.

[Airborne Aircrew]

The article states:-

Both units, along with RFA Fort Victoria, RFA Fort Austin and USS Bulkeley and the American Los Angeles Class took part in a joint ASW (Anti Submarine Warfare) exercise in the waters of the Gulf.

They need to brush up on their skills the bloody sub is right under their noses... :}