And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It's neither an Exocet nor a Harpoon, unless it's some strange variant. The leading and trailing edges of the forward fins aren't swept enough to be a Harpoon. Of course, that might be artistic license.
I don't think that's is an Exocet or the Sheffield but an interesting note is that the warhead on the Exocet that actually hit the Sheffield didn't go off. It's motor lit the aluminium inner structure of the ship on fire and they scuttled it.
At the Time, the French Co. that made the Exocets put a full-page Ad in the Aviation Week Magazine of the "Sheffield" Burning and Sinking. It was Captioned, "One Shot, One Kill" Needless to Say, the Royal Navy resented it.
General Belgrano?
ReplyDeleteMy bad. The General was sunk with a couple of torpedoes from HMS Conqueror. The HMS Sheffield ate the Exocet.
DeleteLooks like it might be headed for that ship.
ReplyDeleteThis is a Harpoon not an Exocet.
ReplyDeleteCorrect - and that looks like an Udaloy-class as the recipient
DeleteIt's neither an Exocet nor a Harpoon, unless it's some strange variant. The leading and trailing edges of the forward fins aren't swept enough to be a Harpoon. Of course, that might be artistic license.
DeleteLooks more like a Kashin
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ReplyDeleteI don't think that's is an Exocet or the Sheffield but an interesting note is that the warhead on the Exocet that actually hit the Sheffield didn't go off. It's motor lit the aluminium inner structure of the ship on fire and they scuttled it.
ReplyDeleteWhatever it is, it's A nice piece of military illustration!
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My vote goes to imperfectly-drawn harpoon.
ReplyDeleteAt the Time, the French Co. that made the Exocets put a full-page Ad in the Aviation Week Magazine of the "Sheffield" Burning and Sinking. It was Captioned, "One Shot, One Kill" Needless to Say, the Royal Navy resented it.
ReplyDeleteThe crusty shellback says, when you hear the phalinx system start up, kiss your ass goodby
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