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Old 01-23-2011, 12:07 PM   #1
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Default UK SSBN tracked Chinese weapons shipment to Zimbabwe in 2008

http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/ar...-Zim-arms-ship

Interesting use of a Trident missile sub...
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Old 01-23-2011, 12:20 PM   #2
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Wow, I'll say. Perhaps this is a way to display the other uses of an SSBN to Parliament after the Trident program is axed?
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Old 01-23-2011, 12:28 PM   #3
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Well, that's different...still, she's just as good at the job as a Traffie.
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Old 01-23-2011, 06:02 PM   #4
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should have fired some torpedos at the ship
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I think it was in Sum Of All Fears that I read into Boomers tracking SSNs and stuff.
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Old 01-24-2011, 06:19 AM   #6
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Thats a cool story!


SA does not always reject PLAN ships:

Cape Town port oktober 7, 2008:

Sorry for crappy qual, pour CMYK -> RGB convertion via imageshack HR RAW file available.

What a coinsidance, just outside CPT HBR i shot this (same day):


China is putting lots of efford in Africa, the economical kind in stead of the NGO stuff we do...
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Old 01-24-2011, 09:44 AM   #7
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SA does not always reject PLAN ships:

Cape Town port oktober 7, 2008:

Sorry for crappy qual, pour CMYK -> RGB convertion via imageshack HR RAW file available.
Looks like the Yuan Wang 1 Space Event Support Ship, a type of ship used for tracking satellites when you don't have a bunch of tracking stations around the world like the US. The ship was decommissioned last month.
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Old 01-24-2011, 11:03 AM   #8
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+1 for the RN.....she was more than adequately equipped to do the job and had quite a nasty bite on her if needed (and I mean torpedoes not nukes)
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