Scott Loveless wrote: > Cotty wrote: > >> On 16/4/08, Christian, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >> >>> Those things bombed the Falklands while I was living in Argentina. >>> >> Interestingly, and aside from carrying the British nuclear deterrent >> during the cold war, that was the only action a Vulcan ever saw. >> >> > That sure is a pretty plane. > > My Falklands history is a bit murky, but I believe that during the war a > British nuclear submarine sank an Argentine ship. This was one of very > few ships sunk by submarine since WWII, and the only one to be sunk by a > nuclear submarine. Even more interesting is that the torpedoes fired by > the sub were a US design manufactured by the British during or shortly > after WWII. The ship that sank was formerly a WWII era US cruiser. Or > something like that. I may have things mixed up a bit and I'm too damn > lazy to look it up. > > All pretty much true, though I believe that the submarine was an American design licensed to the British as well.
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