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“Show of strength” – UK’s hunter killer nuclear submarine to the Falklands

England sends ‘hunter-killer’ nuclear-powered sub to Falklands, Digital Journal, By Igor I. Solar May 20, 2012 Cape Town  – The UK is sending the powerful nuclear submarine “HMS Talent” to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands as a “a show of strength” to Argentina amid a growing diplomatic wrangle over the future of the South Atlantic islands.

The “HMS Talent” (S92) is one of six nuclear-powered Trafalgar Class ‘hunter-killer’ submarines of the Royal Navy. According to the Daily Mail , the submarine “slipped into a port in South Africa last week under a cloak of secrecy” after requesting “a nuclear permission” to dock in Cape Town from May 10 to 30. From Cape Town the sub will depart to the Falklands/Malvinas, in what has been called “a show of strength” planned in London by the Ministry of Defence.  http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/325213#ixzz1vXyXr2Vh

May 21, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | UK, weapons and war