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...below, there was disciplined pandemonium. Klaxons howled as British seamen rushed to red alert stations. Machine guns hammered a deafening staccato and Sea Dart and Seawolf missiles aboard British destroyers and frigates locked on to targets and then whooshed away in clouds of smoke and flame. Land-based Rapier antiaircraft missiles joined the fray, as did the nimble Harriers with their Sidewinder missiles (see box). The attacking Argentine pilots could see the missiles zooming toward them and hear the gunfire, but they continued to press their attacks. Said one military attache: "They are bloody good flyers with plenty of courage...
...British task force has one weapon that would probably have downed the Exocet. The British-built Seawolf, a 6½-ft.-long missile, is capable of intercepting a 4½-in. shell. It might have stopped the Exocet, but within the task force, only the frigates Broadsword and Brilliant are armed with the Seawolf. Instead, the Sheffield carried the Sea Dart, a reliable but older missile, that, so far as is known, was never fired...
...Vickers aircraft carrier. Nor is the infantry slighted: there are mortars (51 mm or 81 mm), silencer-equipped submachine guns, four-round sniper rifles (99% accuracy at 400 meters) and a battery-powered grenade launcher. Missiles? Try an air-to-air Sky Flash or a ship-to-air Seawolf, a Rapier ("low cost" and "low weight") or a Swingfire ("long-range" and "antitank"). Once the weapons are ordered, there are British firms that will train troops and commanders, plan communications systems and even help manage bases...
...Carter was picked for the nuclear submarine program by Admiral Hyman Rickover, who later assigned him to the prelaunch crew of the submarine Seawolf. "Rickover transformed my life," says Carter. "He was unbelievably hard-working and competent, and he demanded total dedication from his subordinates." Today, Carter's aides consider him just as much of a taskmaster as Rickover; the two men often meet...
...Georgia Southwestern College to Georgia Tech and then in 1943 to the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving five years on battleships and conventional submarines, he was selected by one of his heroes, Admiral Hyman Rickover, to join the nuclear-submarine program. He was the prelaunch skipper of the submarine Seawolf, but when his father died in 1953, he left the Navy to help his family...