Wader2 - Bollox - and to you WeekendFlyer
Pull down your sails, we have replaced you dear boys -- we have longer legs and the element of surprise!!
The biggest pain in the arse in tracking (and losing) Sov Nucs in the 70's & 80's were the RN - re-fuelling and sprinting, using towed array Leander and T22- remember?
In the 90's, the "wonderful, solve all solutions, ****e T23", came into service, boring in at speed across all our patterns to get in for a refuel causing a whiteout and loss of our contact, which we, the USN and MAAU had confirmed but the CO's of HMS WASNAEME denied at de-brief - remember?
I doubt if the RN were deployed in the desert they could hit a camels arse with a shovel - unless they were on rates - apologies to the RN Rates - they probably could
