Hercs used for anti-ship bombing by Argentina

On 17/01/2012 02:28, David E. Powell wrote:
The guys on the Argentinian GUPPY boat drove their sub about as hard
as they could.

The Santa Fe? Not really, they were caught on the surface and crippled
before they knew they were under attack. (Chris Parry, later to make
flag rank and run the Maritime Warfare Centre and then the Joint
Doctrine & Concepts Centre, may have owed some of his career to being
the observer that guided the Wessex in for a radar-guided attack in
fog). Similarly, the San Luis - a newer German-built Type 209 - caused
some irritation, but can hardly be said to have been "hard driven"
(imagine what a determinedly-driven small diesel boat could have
achieved amongst the San Carlos landings, for a nightmare scenario)

Unfortunately for the Argentine Navy in particular, actually fighting a
war turned out to be much more difficult than interrogating attractive
female dissidents aboard the ESMA, hence their decision to
hide-with-pride throughout the conflict.

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He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.