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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
Kapitian are you familiar with the ARA Santa Fe S-21? After she kept the British sweating as they took South Georgia they manage to catch her in shallow water and pounded her with bombs, torpedoes and missiles (AS-12s) but couldn't sink her. Eventually the crew beached her and abandoned ship. The Brits later scuttled her. She was a US Built Balao class GUPPY conversion (Ex USS Catfish SS-339) built in 1945! World War II relic my a$$, ASMs and homing torpedoes from Wasp and Lynx helicopters couldn’t sink her. What does that tell you about “made in USA”! :|\
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It tells me the British needed to improve their aim and ASW techniques.
And I'd much rather recount the war record of the ARA
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Originally Posted by [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_San_Luis
Wikipedia article on the ARA San Luis[/url]]San Luis reported two attacks on Royal Navy ships during the war. On May 1, the RN ships HMS Brilliant and Yarmouth were sent to intercept the San Luis in the Falkland Sound channel. San Luis reported firing two torpedoes at the ship which subsequently missed.
San Luis attacked again on the night of May 10. Alacrity had made passage up the Falkland Sound, sinking an Argentine merchant navy ship on the way. As Alacrity left the channel before dawn, its sister ship Arrow was waiting to escort her back to the Task Force. San Luis detected the two ships and fired upon them, again missing.
For the rest of the war, San Luis tracked the British ships, but with no successful attacks.
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Seems both sides could use some time on the torpedo range.