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HMS Conqueror’s biggest secret: a raid on Russia
« on: October 12, 2012, 09:32:09 PM »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9602103/HMS-Conquerors-biggest-secret-a-raid-on-Russia.html

A good quick read.

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This one was special: Polish-flagged, she was pulling a device long coveted by the British and Americans, a two-mile string of hydrophones known as a towed-array sonar. It was the latest thing in Soviet submarine-detection technology and Conqueror’s job was to steal it. To do so, the bow was equipped with electronically controlled pincers, provided by the Americans, to gnaw through the three-inch-thick steel cable connecting it to the trawler. The name of this audacious exercise in piracy? Operation Barmaid.
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Re: HMS Conqueror’s biggest secret: a raid on Russia
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2012, 09:56:22 PM »
That's kind of a neat story.
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