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Can you Id this? What is it and what nations boats carried them?
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British attempt to reach out and touch ASW helicopters. Blow-Pipe I think. I think they sold the system to the Australian's?Who is John Galt?Comment
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Yep but you already knew that.
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The boat is HMSm Aeneas and the array is SLAM (Submarine Launched Airflight Missile with Blowpipe missiles) An anti chopper weapon but never introduced into RN service. My school chum was serving as a Leading Stoker aboard when this picture was taken, 1970 I think. She paid off in 1972. I wish I could send it to him but he is one of the very few people I know who is without a puter.Comment
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Without a "puter"? I like that.IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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What well known "Russian " sub is this???IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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Tritonski.Comment
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OH DEAR! CURSES! My attempt at subterfuge has been throttled! Triton it is. The only US sub designed to use two reactors. Those were the good old days.IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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When our people and Government had Balls!
DavidWho is John Galt?Comment
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You will never guess it...........Not in a million years. Guess what this is a view from and to. Believe it or not.
IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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It looks like a trial fit of a rescue sub chamber to a full size subs rescue hatch. I say a trial as the top hatch is open with a collapsable rope ladder dropping down over the upper hatch rim, therefore compromising the hatch closure. I suspect that the only ones who will know the names of the two will be those who participated in this particular trial. A friend of mine was aboard HMSm Resolution many years ago when submerged rescue trials were carried out with the US rescue sub, the name of which escapes me only because I haven't looked it up yet.Comment
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There were only two DSRV's AFAIK, Avalon and Mystic.Comment
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It is my understanding that this picture was taken while the event was occuring. Supposedly it is the first ever mating of a American DSRV and a Russian Alrosa. Zoom in on the Insignia on the shirt of the guy in the DSRV. Its possible that its not a DSRV but some other rescue device.IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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I thought that all Russian subs had a red and white circle around their rescue hatches to guide rescue devices.
The more I look at the picture the more I think that this maybe is a MacCann rescue bell. Also, this cannot be during the event with the top hatch open, can it, eh?
Also, I cannot see any lower hatch other than the submarine hatch itself. I thought that the lower skirt had a hatch which was only opened once a seal had been made between the "Casualty" and the "Rescuer" and then the space was blown dry before the lower hatch was opened and the "Casualty" hatch was opened.
Please someone out there set us all right.Comment
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