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...

Wow, I'll say.:o Perhaps this is a way to display the other uses of an SSBN to Parliament after the Trident program is axed?

:doh: Well, that's different...still, she's just as good at the job as a Traffie.

should have fired some torpedos at the ship:arrgh!:

I think it was in Sum Of All Fears that I read into Boomers tracking SSNs and stuff.

Thats a cool story!


SA does not always reject PLAN ships:

Cape Town port oktober 7, 2008:
http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/1209/sdim6653lr.jpg
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):
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/622/sdim6570lr.jpg

China is putting lots of efford in Africa, the economical kind in stead of the NGO stuff we do...

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.

+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) :DL