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(ROYAL) Navy sends 2,600-man task force to the Gulf
The Sunday Telegraph ^
| December 15, 2002
| Francis Elliott
Posted on 12/14/2002 4:28:36 PM PST by MadIvan
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To: rmlew
I wasn't aware that the Brits turned off their radars.I was wrong... pardon my faulty memory of a programme I watched some years ago and posting off the top of my head, but that wasn't the normal case. Apparently there was a picket system in place, but the Sheffield had no effective radar due to the fact that (unbelievably) her satellite comms equipment interfered with it. The excocet was indeed first spotted visually! Complete bungling.
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To: Da_Shrimp
It is a good thing the Ruskies never tried to use their TU-22M's with AS-6 missles. A Mach 3.5 missle with a 300 mile range and 1100 pound conventional or nuclear warhead, the AS-6 Kelts would do a hell of a lot more damage than an Exocet.
Heck, it gave our CVBG Admiral's nightmares.
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