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Hi guys:

This has already being discussed viewtopic.php?t=522 . I don´t believe either it is true. How would a cat reach the deck of a destroyer? A survivor can climb a rope ladder, but a cat...?

1979 - Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami.

...to be later killed in Paraguay by a comunist commando lead by Argentine insurgents.

Hi Bgile:

One of the theories is that she was patched while at sea, supporters of the theory of the attack put the fact of the prolonged stay out of port as a prove.

Well I thnk that after a war, a ship would need replenishment at least.

Thanks Robert. What about the fact that the carrier didn´t enter port until August?

Hi Karl: There was a posibility at the very begining of the war of reaching an agreement for a joint government of the isles, Argentina, UK and the UN. It was proposed by Javier Perez de Cuellar, then Secretary-General of the UN. I think that Argentina was going to accept it, and coming from the UN,...

I don´t dispute the legality of the attack: war is war and rules are the exception. But I don´t think the cruiser could do much damage to a fleet of modern warships: they all had missiles.

The heaviest unit was the carrier 25 de Mayo. She carried A-4 attack aircraft. Teoretically she could also carry Super Etendards, but I am not sure if her catapults could launch such an aircraft fully loaded. The General Belgrano was armed with Sea Cats anti-aircraft launchers besides her guns. I th...

Yes, a light cruiser.

Wow, one of the strangest stories of navigation I have heard!!!

I don´t think she was a menace to the British fleet in Malvinas/Falklands. Inspite of her 6" armament, far better (at least in hitting power) than the modern 5" of the British, she would surely receive a pair of missiles hits before coming into guns range, and she was not as heavily armour...

Yes!!!

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Does anyone know when variable pitch propellers began to be used in warships, and which one was the first?

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I wonder why CNN is crying so loud about 3,000 Us casualties in Iraq in 4 years of conflict? Two factors: -human life is more valuable now. I think that in the old days (even in the first half of the XX century) illness had taken lot of lifes. As Robert said more people died in the flu than in the ...