Here's a little thing to tickle the fancy.
The other night, I had a rather vivid dream of a WW II cruiser being sold to India and the concern of how it would unbalance the power structure in the region (obviously in my dream, it was set a couple of decades back).
The vividness was in seeing the cruiser at sea. Bow on, it was two six inch mounts ....... and a Type 1022/965P radar. For some odd reason, my mind decided to put the mounts clearly to one side of the centerline, but that can be ignored.
So my question is, did someone at some point have a cruiser like that, so fitted? Did my mind dig up some picture I once saw and proceed on it?
I won't be heart broken if the answer is no. Personally, I think it was more our discussion here, that the reason why I saw that kind of radar was because of our talking about Coontz class DDG's and my searching the picture for the SPS-29 radar. The other day, I watched "The Sea Wolves" and between that and the way we talk about India here that could have generated that topic.....or, I suppose, since Roger Moore was in "The Sea Wolves", the mind brought up "Shout at the Devil" which did involve a battleship.....I suppose. And the detail on the cruiser? I think the mind was showing me, drawing on the General Belgrano (so the mind lost 3 guns, oh well!) .........but as near as I can recall, the only recent discussions I've had about South America is about what a great guy Uruguay's President is....and their wine isn't bad either.
The other night, I had a rather vivid dream of a WW II cruiser being sold to India and the concern of how it would unbalance the power structure in the region (obviously in my dream, it was set a couple of decades back).
The vividness was in seeing the cruiser at sea. Bow on, it was two six inch mounts ....... and a Type 1022/965P radar. For some odd reason, my mind decided to put the mounts clearly to one side of the centerline, but that can be ignored.
So my question is, did someone at some point have a cruiser like that, so fitted? Did my mind dig up some picture I once saw and proceed on it?
I won't be heart broken if the answer is no. Personally, I think it was more our discussion here, that the reason why I saw that kind of radar was because of our talking about Coontz class DDG's and my searching the picture for the SPS-29 radar. The other day, I watched "The Sea Wolves" and between that and the way we talk about India here that could have generated that topic.....or, I suppose, since Roger Moore was in "The Sea Wolves", the mind brought up "Shout at the Devil" which did involve a battleship.....I suppose. And the detail on the cruiser? I think the mind was showing me, drawing on the General Belgrano (so the mind lost 3 guns, oh well!) .........but as near as I can recall, the only recent discussions I've had about South America is about what a great guy Uruguay's President is....and their wine isn't bad either.
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