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Pensate Profunde. All things submarines! Digital Naval Photo Gallery (162k photos) | Naval News | Contributor @thewarzonewire

Sep 10, 2021, 5 tweets

#SubFriday #Submarines #USNavy
1. In 1976, a special purpose nuclear-powered submersible NR-1 was tasked to recover AIM-54A Phoenix missile from an F‐14 fighter plane that fell from the deck of the carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) during a NATO exercise Sept. 14. 1976.

2. Photo shows the missing F-14 upside-down on the bottom with rope pendant around the landing gear.

3. This photo shows the dropped F-14 right side up with the cockpit open for inspection

4. Missing Phoenix missile as found on the bottom of the ocean

5. Al Holifield, the third NR-1 OIC, and his predecessor, Toby Warson, flank Sunbird CO Ed Craig beside the recovered Phoenix missile.

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