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1 posted on 01/14/2023 11:56:03 AM PST by MAGA2017
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Kudos to the British crew!


2 posted on 01/14/2023 11:58:25 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: MAGA2017

Vewy vewy quiet.


3 posted on 01/14/2023 11:59:25 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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I’ve read many times that, in those days, British submariners were the best in the biz.


4 posted on 01/14/2023 12:01:19 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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Run silent, run deep


7 posted on 01/14/2023 12:08:28 PM PST by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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There are two kinds of naval vessels, submarines and targets.


18 posted on 01/14/2023 12:52:16 PM PST by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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Job well done, rumor has it we, with our USN fast attacks have done the very same thing on multiple occasions. Huzzah!


25 posted on 01/14/2023 1:03:43 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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Russia doesn’t have aircraft carriers.

Realizing that large surface ships have been made effectively obsolete by the deployment of advanced anti-ship missiles, both supersonic and hypersonic, the Russian Navy made a decision to build smaller vessels that would have the capability to deploy the aforementioned advanced missiles and thus jeopardize much larger hostile capital ships such as aircraft carriers. These are especially relied on by NATO, primarily the US...

https://infobrics.org/post/37501/

The USSR did but they ceased to exist in 1991.

A lot of freepers operate from very outdated roadmaps.


26 posted on 01/14/2023 1:04:32 PM PST by MarMema (Biden = Americans Last)
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And now, Russia doesn’t have any aircraft carriers.


31 posted on 01/14/2023 2:45:39 PM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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Can you imagine being a Soviet sailor taking a leake over the side and see a periscope watching you piss?


34 posted on 01/14/2023 3:15:12 PM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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There is a sub built by the Danes (I think) that uses fuel cells for power and is so quiet that it can routinely pop up in the middle of US carrier groups. The US has borrowed it to study it.


37 posted on 01/14/2023 4:05:32 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (DemocRats have placed stronger chains on Blacks than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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Great story thanks for posting!

Love stories about the former “Great” Britain’s military machismo!


40 posted on 01/14/2023 6:51:53 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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Kiev was kinda sorta an aircraft carrier. VTOL/STOL planes. I think it is now a casino


42 posted on 01/15/2023 1:17:00 PM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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