Harpoon 3 ANW Platform Photo ID Test

[Bucks]

I'm not going to accept blame being placed on the admin of the "competition" just because we have a member of the Dutch "cafe" scene taking guesses [:'(].


Nice try Taitennek [;)]

Darren

[Bucks]

Ok so while I've been out we seem to have reached a point where nobody is prepared to take a stab at guessing any of the 3 required answers. You don't need to get all three right to gain points if you think you know any of them give it a stab and you may pick up a point.

Here's the next section of the ship for Round 5:

[Flankerk]

Nah stumped. Reckon its a french style turret with ASROC. Vague possibility of Baleares class, but the turret doesn't look right.

[Bucks]

No Prize Flank, not a French turret although from a country geographically close. Nothing for the Baleares class either. Two attempts left mate.

[Bucks]

Next "clue" for round 5:

[danrhayes]

Canadian Restigouche DDE

Daniel

[Bucks]

Good effort Dan, you score the max three points for that one.

[Bucks]

Ok you are a maintenance fitter at the local airbase you have a visting country's air arms visting your base for an air show. Can you identify this aircraft?


CLUE: Nil

REQUIRED: Model and service name of the aircraft depicted

BONUS: Nil

INELIGIBLE: danrh

[FreekS]

Harrier?

[Bucks]

Sorry no prize Freek, here's some more of the suspect.

[Dimitris]

It's a CH-53 Stallion helicopter. Insufficient visual data to identify precise subvariant (although paint _looks_ like a CH-53E).

[Bucks]

Looks like I'll have to dig deep to find something to test Dimitris out. More points to Sunburn who now leads the comp. Here's the full version of the CH-53:

[Bucks]

You are a trainee Soviet submarine officer, your instructor has "demanded" that you comit the visual images of those nasty nasty capitalist warships to memory. Can you identify this vessel before the "instructor" returns or are you taking a cheap flight to Siberia?

CLUE: Nil

REQUIRED: Type (FFG/DDG etc), Individual Class name.

BONUS: Nil

INELIGIBLE: Sunburn

[Sirius.]

Leander Class frigate or Type 12 Rothesay class[8D]
the anchor type is AC.14 type and the cable is 38mm dia of forged steel [8D][8D]

[Bucks]

I said Soviet submarine officer candidate, not ex-RN anchor cable experts. [;)]

Ok Paul forgot about you lurking there, you better forward your service history so I know what not to include you in with these, anything RN since????

I'll pay double points if you or anyone else can tell me the type of Leander (1, 2B, 3A etc) as I reveal more of the ship. Sirius has 2 points and he should pick up the double here.

[Bucks]

Ok that radar's not much of a clue here's some more of the ship.

[Flankerk]

Radar would probably make it a Godvari.

[Sirius.]

Bucks the radar shot is of a Godavari, the second is of a different class of ship which I know and have served on thats all I'll say [8D]

Apart from the fc director is a type 903/4 for GWS.22 and the after mast radar is a type 1010 IFF Interrigator, btw I'm still serving and a Radar and weps specialist hehe[8D]

[Bucks]

Bucks the radar shot is of a Godavari

Good pick up mate although it's not from a Godavari, sorry must have mixed my "jigsaw" pieces up...

Your "nick" has a connection with the former colony of New South Wales and...

Here's a part of the ship that every good Soviet Sub Officer would be concerned about...

[Sirius.]

Its a Batch 2 TA (Towed Array) Leander called HMS Sirius F 40 I think , btw if the pic was taken in 1988 I was the leading hand of the sharp pointy bit hehe