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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by Linton
In WW2 some of the RN submarine commanders were in their early twenties.Thirty eight was considerd retirement age.
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In WW2 Submarines were a lot smaller and less powerful than they are today. A 24 year old is not someone I would want with his finger on the trigger of enough nuclear weapons to wipe out half the earth. |
And not with some paranoid grandpa either.
I once read that the British sub commanders have this piece of paper that, if they lost any communication with the command or someone nukes UK and everyone is dead, they have a preset targets ready to drop their cargo at. Let's assume they have Italy for example, and Italy didn't do that, how they will prove that to the commander of a UK sub that they are shooting in the wrong place?:hmm: