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2005-11-20 Europe

The Sphinx and the curious case of the Iron Lady's H-bomb

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-11-20 13:44|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The 4 nuclear submarines were SSNs not SSBNs as such only torpedo armament at time (tomhawks still not oprerational and sold to the British) . Now England could have sended a Polaris down there just in case

Posted by Unetch Flinetch3868 2005-11-20 14:35|| 2005-11-20 14:35|| Front Page Top

#2 it might have been a good idea to *warn the russians* and used a sea-launched non-nuclear warhead against certain run-ways.

Nothing says, "we can step up our response", like that.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2005-11-20 15:21|| 2005-11-20 15:21|| Front Page Top

#3 100% merde formidable

Posted by Dawg 2005-11-20 16:46|| 2005-11-20 16:46|| Front Page Top

#4 LOL, did a good trick on the Exocets 'eh? Right. Most British losses were from iron bombs dropped by well trained Argentine pilots. If the bombs had been properly fused it would have been much worse. You gotta figure that any country that cranks out 3 Formula 1 champs is going to have some pretty good pilots.

Posted by Shipman 2005-11-20 17:43|| 2005-11-20 17:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Public fuzziness over the distinction between nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed submarines is a long-time staple of lefty anti-military propaganda. This basic story, that the UK sent a "nuclear sub" to threaten the Argies with atomic weapons, has been around a long time.

Back in the 80s, the Greenpeace goebbelists went a step further and conflated all submarines with nuclear-powered ones, listing all submarine losses since World War 2 as "nuclear accidents" even though the great majority of these involved diesel-electric subs. One exception, a unique one, involved a conventionally powered but nuclear armed sub. This was the Soviet "Golf" class boat that sank in the Pacific in 1968 and was partially (?) raised by the US in the famous "Project Jennifer" of the early 1970s.

Posted by Angaper Unomock1970 2005-11-20 18:16|| 2005-11-20 18:16|| Front Page Top

#6 And all but two of the nuclear boats lying on the sea bed are the products of socialist engineering.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-11-20 19:00|| 2005-11-20 19:00|| Front Page Top

#7 To the tune of Tomorrow Belongs to Me, from Cabaret:

Our soldiers are many,
Our missles French-sent.
They're Exocet artillery!
What does it matter our rifles are bent?
The Falklands belong to me!

They'll all pledge allegiance
To our puffed-up swells,
Or else they will hang from a tree!
With nameless prisoners
In numberless cells,
The Falklands belong to me!

Our soldiers will fight hard,
They will not sleep.
They'll fight undistractedly!
For it is so boring
To torture a sheep,
The Falklands belong,
—The Malvinas belong,
The Falklands belong to me!

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2005-11-20 20:42|| 2005-11-20 20:42|| Front Page Top

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