Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!unmvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: hwh%edai.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK (Howard Hughes) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: A NASTY attack sub idea Message-ID: <7341@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 10 Jun 89 05:40:39 GMT References: <7209@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: AI Edinburgh Uni Lines: 35 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Howard Hughes >From article <7209@cbnews.ATT.COM>, by nak@cbnews.ATT.COM (Neil A. Kirby): > > > My context in the original posting was that the location of the sub > has already been blown. I was at scope depth, and the dipping helo > found me. In reality, the helo would be getting ready to drop Mk46's > on me. I wanted something to mess him up while he was trying to get > me. He already knew I was there. But I was where I wanted to be, and > I wanted to get my cruise missiles off before I ran. I needed to buy > time by splashing the helo. > You might like to read the account of the attack on the Argentinian submarine caught on the surface by British Royal Navy helicopters off St Georgia in the early days of the Falklands campaign. The submarine (a conventional - whose name I forget) was caught on the surface by an ASW Lynx helicopter. A homing torpedo was dropped but the Argentinian commander managed to evade it by remaining on the surface (apparently it wasn't able to acquire a surface target). The Lynx was carrying no other weapons and the crew eventually resorted to using their personal firearms with an Argentinian crew member in the conning tower shooting back with a rifle. Other helicopters eventually arrived, a Wasp fired a wire-guided missile at it and a couple of depth charges were dropped by a Wessex but the sub. while damaged made it into St. Georgia harbour. I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions. ************************************************************************** * Howard Hughes * Dept. of Artificial Intelligence * * * Edinburgh * **************************************************************************