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My ever beloved XB-70 !!

Thank you. They will perfectly set belong Hellenics F-102s.

Looks the rests of a kamikaze lighter...

Tokyo S.O.S' MechaG with shoulders lasers was one of the best ever designed !

At more than 20 this tall girl is in top shape !

I wish you all the best ! You got one chance to discover something else, a chance I wish I had.

It's the so predicted appearance of Idiocracy.

Contemporary art.

One point often omitted in most statistics: the USAAF losses on its own national soil. Exercices, navigations and first solos have seen many young enlisteds die during their formations.

Don't forget one pretty easiness exception: the SOLG and its Gabacr-Ofnir loosy double S-32 formation. Perfect to the scenario, but at a playable level more easier than the Arkbird with air-to-air lasers.

As one humorist said : -"What is the last thing that went through your mind ?" -"My a** !"

Will shurely feed a little the hungry anti-drones.

Tomorrow will mark the 31st year of the actual longest raid conducted by a "Skyhawk" unit. But there is still some mist over this day, the Royal Navy never admited a hit on her aircraft carrier, saying that the HMS "Exeter" had shot-down the ennemy "Exocet", and from the Argentinian side the two Armada "Super Etendard" pilots never saw their target, firing from 23 miles, while of the four F.A.A "Skyhawks" crews, which followed the missile smoke trail to find their aim, only two survived the attack (one being down at 8 miles off, the other near the "Invincible" and its escort), testifying one direct hit on a ship "with a ski-jump, a large superstructure, two chimneys and multiple radomes". However, following this operation, various reports from the Royal Navy mention a Harrier traffic downturn in the "Invincible" area, and an increased number of helicopter rotations. The ship will also take more than a month to join the "Hermes", already in station in the regained archipelago. Is new documents are now available on this event ?

Great titles ! They shurely can make alot much, with or without changing the title... like "Catch 22" or "Black C*ck Down".

Now that's copied (I must have jump a line while reading the other day...). Would you allow me to extract your evidence for a study topic ? Thanks to your answers I could consider to finish my paper on the Argentinian side and go to the British operations.

No, not about an unknow place to repair unknow damages, more precisely just to doing standard maintenance that could not be made at sea after all this time in station. It's just that I still ask myself and try to find where could the ship be during these two months. Does the RN couldn't used Ascension as a maintenance point, to refuel and rearm the Invincible, using the same installations as the ones used as a stating point during its descent to South Atlanttic ?

Filthy bastards. Our oldest female dog, who died recently, was recovered by us in a ditch... the same kind of assbags had wrapped her with barbed wires !

Awesome NZ ! This commercial should have near than 15 years now, but still so effectively dark.

Thank you Craig, that was the kind of testimony I was looking for. About these 2 months of absence, avoiding the idea of a world timing record on a super-mega top secret rebuilt in a US shipyard while at the same time Columbia, after refuelled with a space-cruiser launched from nazi's moon base, sabotaged surveillance satellites during secret STS-3bis mission, could the Invincible has returned to Ascension for maintenance after his stay in South Atlantic ?

We shurely all know about the Atlantic Conveyor, the fact is that it happen five days before the mission launched against the Invincible. Gepard's testimony is interesting to compare with Western documents about May 25 event. I took some notes about it years ago, revealing that after the raid on the "Sheffield" both SP-2H (0707/2-P-111 and 0708/2-P-112) were decomissionned and transferred to Comandante Espora naval base due to lack of spare parts, and leaving the Comando de Aviacíon Naval without any efficient exploration and radar guidance aircrafts. However, on May 23 and using the Harrier traffic trajectory the headquarter estimated one aircraft carrier location and ordered an attack on it. After refuelling at 1545, and approaching the estimated point, both Super Etendard pilots found nothing and headed back to Rio Grande. On May 25 the same technique is used to mark the carrier group at approximately 110 nm NW of Stanley (noted as Puerto Argentino) and the CoAN the ordered a new attack. Both Etendards took off frome Rio Grande with one AM-39 each at 1430, reffueled an hour later before starting their dive on attack profil and fired their missiles at 1632, striking the Atlantic Conveyor. Landing at R. Grande at 1830. One Super Etendard 'platoon' (quoted as 'section') was transferred to Espora the next day, the CoAN fearing a British counter attack, with the last Exocet missile available.

Arg, here you scored an extra point, philosophically and logically difficult to face. However I found that much of the online community refuses to recognize the operation possibility itself. Many forums tend to contradict each others, just like the wikipedia pages (I grant you, this is not always a reference) of the Exeter and Invincible. The destroyer page contains both victories from its Sea Dart on the two Skyhawk (plus one probable on the AM-39) on May 30. While the one of the Invincible ignore this event (looking at the Talk page and its respectfull writers well explain why).

I hope it will not be a Golf fishing case too. Some time ago a team trying to save an ex-Luftwaffe bomber from a lake of the Eastern front also disrupted the cell despite all precautions.

That is it. I am not here to strike on the UK but only look for new official reports, if they were release, which mention why the carrier rejoined the Hermes so lately, shurely not for a vacation tour accross South Georgia, why the helicopter activity increased in the attack area, and why there were repairs made at sea. The only testimony I got about the Exocet came from one of the Skyhawk pilots. He talk about it as they follow its smoke trail to found the battle group but never saw it strike the ship, and that of the small load of bombs they dropped solely one Mk-82s impact was confirmed. One of the Royal Navy reports mentioning the missile being shot down by the Exeter can of course be correct.

This is also what we think about the Glomar Explorer geologic researches until some of its crew talk about the moon pool internal organisation under the derrick section. But as these testimonies were all made under false names, nothing can prove this can't come from Clancy like scenarios.

I admit that much remains unclear on this operation, not as much as the disapear of K-129 nor the campaigns of USS Halibut. But would it be more suprising than the sinking of the "Hercules" tanker (220 000tons anyway), hit by a Canberra, or the attack of the "British Wye" by a bomber converted C-130 or even the hospital ships "Uganda" (UK) and "Bahia Paraiso" (Argentina) navigating together ? I doubt that the "Exeter" could had intercept the missile with her short-range weaponry. But even if the "Exocet" hit or not the Royal Navy aircraft carrier, it is simply impossible to say or think that its sailors have not defended her valiantly in a war where anti-ship missiles were used for the first time and that CIWS did not exist. Instead, if after a missile and Mk-80 serie bomb hit the ship was still afloat and still ensure departures and arrivals on her deck, well she could not better deserve the name of "Invincible" .