We attack Nato on tuesday with our new subs

Jimbuna · 09-05-07, 08:38 AM

Your right....the photos are great

But hey!!....where were the professionals (Royal Navy) ?

AntEater · 09-05-07, 09:46 AM

:hmm::rotfl:

SAN Maritime patrol aircraft...

TLAM Strike · 09-05-07, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by AntEater

:hmm::rotfl:

SAN Maritime patrol aircraft...

Is that an old DC-3? How dare they! An MPA built out of the airframe of a passanger aircraft will never work!! Oh wait...

Chock · 09-05-07, 05:36 PM

That's the considerably more capable, updated 'turboprop' conversion of the venerable old DC-3, the original radial engines having been replaced and the airframe upgraded. a good aircraft and like the original, tough as old boots.

Chock

bookworm_020 · 09-05-07, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Chock

That's the considerably more capable, updated 'turboprop' conversion of the venerable old DC-3, the original radial engines having been replaced and the airframe upgraded. a good aircraft and like the original, tough as old boots.

Chock

The Gooney Bird will still be flying long after I'm dead! It flies and flies, and never dies!

JALU3 · 09-06-07, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bookworm_020

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Originally Posted by Chock

That's the considerably more capable, updated 'turboprop' conversion of the venerable old DC-3, the original radial engines having been replaced and the airframe upgraded. a good aircraft and like the original, tough as old boots.

Chock

The Gooney Bird will still be flying long after I'm dead! It flies and flies, and never dies!

As they say . . . if it aint broke . . .

Well as I have written before, if anyone has seen the ASW school here in San Diego on Harbor Blvd, there is not as much activity there as there was in the past. Since the end of the Cold War we have let our capabilities languish . . . look at what happend to the S-3. If anything a SV-22 should be developed, or some other aircraft to supplement where the MMA cannot travel

NefariousKoel · 09-07-07, 01:24 AM

I recall a Chilean sub scoring a kill on a US carrier during a Pacific exercise years ago also. I believe it was a Type 209 too.

Camaero · 09-07-07, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Chock

That's the considerably more capable, updated 'turboprop' conversion of the venerable old DC-3, the original radial engines having been replaced and the airframe upgraded. a good aircraft and like the original, tough as old boots.

Chock

The DC-3... Now THAT is/was a plane! I love em.

09-05-07, 08:38 AM	#1
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,844 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Your right....the photos are great But hey!!....where were the professionals (Royal Navy) ? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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AntEater Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 936 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	:hmm::rotfl: SAN Maritime patrol aircraft... __________________

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Chock Sea Lord Join Date: May 2005 Location: Under a thermal layer in chilly Olde England Posts: 1,842 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	That's the considerably more capable, updated 'turboprop' conversion of the venerable old DC-3, the original radial engines having been replaced and the airframe upgraded. a good aircraft and like the original, tough as old boots. Chock __________________

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NefariousKoel Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: No-good Missouri scum Posts: 1,223 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I recall a Chilean sub scoring a kill on a US carrier during a Pacific exercise years ago also. I believe it was a Type 209 too. __________________ "When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Yahoo! We're rich! But it turned out to be something different." - Jack Handey