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Old September 1st 03, 09:30 PM
gblack
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"Jack Linthicum" wrote in message
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: (Michael Petukhov) wrote in message
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: Just for comparison during her last patrol in march-may, 1999 in
: the Mediterranean Kursk 5 times could undetecteced approach NATO
: ships for a salvo of his deadly Granit missiles. And they did mock
attacks
: Next they did 3 mock torpedo attacks. All were undetected. This
was
: a bit unpleasant surprise since the plan was to train also escape
: capabilities agaist US battle group. Then they understood that in
order
: to alarm "high professionals" from US NAVY they had to make full
speed
: noisy approach to hand gun shot distance. They did just to train
their
: escape capabilities. 3 times fully seccessfully. This story has
been
: recently published in memories of the crews who was not aboard the
: Kursk in her last mission.
:
: Is that before or after the Kursk sank itself?
Yeah. that load of rubbish reminds me of the Japanese suicide squad in
Monty Pythons 'Life of Brian'
Any comment from a Perisher ???


George Black
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