Run Silent, Run Shallow
2012-10-12 22:40:14.506553+02 by petronius 0 comments
Another reminder that the Cold War sometimes got very hot: in The Telegraph of London a story about HMS Conqueror, the only atomic submarine to ever sink an enemy vessel. Apparently a few weeks after it sent General Belgrano, pride of the Argentine fleet to the bottom, it was engaged in stealing a towed-array sonar system from under the nose of the Soviets.