Six hours, no resupply, no air cover, against a MEB with naval gunfire and Cobras, in sleet.
Whatever else is said this week: 45 Commando held Keflavik for six hours. That is not a defeat anyone should be embarrassed by.
grey funnel ops
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grey funnel ops
@GreyFuncOpsEx-RN. Sonar. I will not speculate on boat positions and neither should you.
I will say this once and then I am muting the replies.
Do not post guesses about where the boats are. Do not post fishing fleet reports, do not post "my mate at Faslane," do not post sonar hobbyist charts.
The entire value of the deterrent is that nobody knows. Including you.
Newport News has been lost. Spearfish, aft compartment, blew to the surface and was scuttled by her own crew.
Ambush took a Mk 48 in return and is limping home on the electric drive.
And in twelve days of the hardest ASW anyone has ever attempted, they have not found either Vanguard. That is the only line in the whole report that decides anything.