[2banana]

In 1982 the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror proved the conventional operational potency of the nuclear attack submarine by sinking the Argentine heavy cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands, or Malvinas, War.

Yeah - a modern nuclear attack submarine sinks a WWII cruiser that was being held together with chewing gum and bailing wire...

[Pyro7480]

Yeah - a modern nuclear attack submarine sinks a WWII cruiser that was being held together with chewing gum and bailing wire...

And they used World War II-era torpedoes to sink her!

[Enchante]

"Yeah - a modern nuclear attack submarine sinks a WWII cruiser that was being held together with chewing gum and bailing wire..."

Exactly -- the author writes as though it were some impressive feat..... I would hate to have been in the crew of the obsolete cruiser heading into that encounter....