At 5:25 PM +0000 1/6/04, olympus-digest wrote:
>Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:44:59 +1100
>From: "Terry and Tracey" <foxcroft@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Naval museums now
>
>They may have been noisy, but the Americans are getting a bit sick and tired
>of Australian subs sinking their aircraft carriers in war games.
>
>A sink is a photo of the carrier. The photos from the Oberons and now the
>Collins class show the crew at work. Pretty close.
>
>I believe a 2n was used when the British sub sank the Argentinian cruiser in
>the Falklands war. The names of the ships escapes me now.
The sunk Argentine ship was the "General Belgrano" I think. I don't recall
the name of the British nuclear sub, but Britian only has two or three such
subs.
Joe Gwinn
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>
>Surely the OM-4Ti would have been much too quiet to be part of the
>Collins Class specs?!
>AndrewF
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