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Old 28th Oct 2020, 12:38
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Originally Posted by typerated
Rockets (2 in, 68mm or SNEB) I would have thought would have been far more effective (than bombs that didn't explode)

Could have been fired at extreme range to reduce vulnerability to the ship's air defences.

Unlikely to sink anything - but only takes a few hits to the destroyers or a frigates superstructure and it's most likely out of the battle (maybe temporarily) or at least degraded.
There seems to be little general knowledge of how many ships actually were "most likely out of the battle (maybe temporarily) or at least degraded" by hits from UXBs. In my view, in addition to the bravery of the bomb disposal teams from all services, without the repair efforts of those onboard MSV Stena Seaspread the outcome could have been an even closer run thing than it was.
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