In
today's Telegraph, in between discussion of Typhoons and Bears, was this snippet:
Officers at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, a secret scientific establishment, said diesel electric submarines were believed to have been spotted close to British shores.
With more than 90 per cent of Britain's trade travelling by sea the country's economy would be extremely vulnerable to the submarines, which are hard to detect.
Lt-Cdr Robin Burns, an analyst from the laboratory, said: "Just one torpedo will do an awful amount of damage to our shipping and economy."
Some jaded PPRuNers may now think that just perhaps, in the absence of a crystal ball, spending money on this wasn't all that crazy after all...
