Cool pic. If you squint....
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Cool pic. If you squint....
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
The Aviationist » [Photo] Periscope of U.S. submarine emerges next to UK aircraft carrier in Middle East waters
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Cool pic. If you squint....
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...)
(Although this class were sold to the government as through-deck cruisers in a little practiced skulduggery...)
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It's about the only time a Merlin has been within a 1000 yards of a submarine.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
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
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
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
And the maritime commandment "Thou shall not flush" unless of course the need to deter greater than the need to destroy.
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The article states:-
They need to brush up on their skills the bloody sub is right under their noses...
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.