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Old 4th Dec 2018, 21:38
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Originally Posted by Wensleydale
"You canna change the laws of physics, Captain". Looking at the range of the Helicopter from the ship, the AGI would have been beyond the radar horizon of the Duncan and was either being tracked by an airborne platform that had gone off station, or the AGI had switched off its AIS transmitter (I assume that they will normally transmit unless operating covertly). At the end of the day, there was a NATO taskforce out there, and the AGI had slipped out of force coverage. No big deal and nothing unusual.
Thank goodness for a sensible post at last. I was beginning to lose faith.
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