"Making a Whiskey on the rocks" Topic

Hi all

I thought I should share some pictures of how I built my Whiskey-class submarine for my WSS-83 article. The Russian submarine U-137 got stuck on a rock in a Swedish military zone on the 27 october 1981 an event that turned in to a very tense situation… you can find it all on my blog.

I hope you all will have a greate weekend !

best regards Michael

Saw the article,liked the "pig".

Looks neat!

Anyone got details on the vessels, and/or vessel types involved in the action, back in the day?

All I've run across are generic descriptions of them.

Would like to run this in 1/600th with aircraft, and probably 1/1200th with the vessels.

Could start looking into it, but actual involved units werent that many depending on what you mean with involved.
The Tjurkö battery had 4 15,2 cm guns with jump frequency FCR (actually operational fairly late, but they lit up their radar early to give the soviets something to think about)
The submarine HMS Neptun had undergone testing of a new ASW torpedo earlier nearby and might have been the reason S-363 was there. She drove of a Soviet tugboat coming to the rescue.
Viggens were overflying the uboat constantly at the early stages for show of force and good PR pictures, they could easily have been armed with Rb-04e ASMs.
A platoon of Fallskärmsjägare held an inner cordon around the boat and prepared a boarding party.
Karlskrona naval base is very close and could probably have reinforced the area, but I'm not at all familiar as to what ships were operational and crewed at the moment.
There might have been a possibility to group Rb-08 ASMs somewere in the area, but to my knowledge this was never done.

I have no insight to what the OPFOR actually consisted of.

But I agree that this scenario could be used as the beginning of something beautiful.

Thanks for the details.

I know some Swedish missile/torpedo boats were scrambled too, and in the area.

There were several Russian vessels standing by, out to sea a bit, but can't recall how many, or which ones. Somewhere, I think I might have the name of one or two of them.

Tense times.

For a second I thought you were advocating poring scotch on ice, whooo glad I was mistaken

The soviet taskforce consisted of approx. 10-14 vessels, the immediate threat seems to have been: 1 kashin class destroyer (462) (flagship w admiral Kalinin), 1 kildin class destroyer (351), 2 nanuchka class corvettes and a Riga class frigate. I remember having read about the threat posed by soviet naval infantry, so might have been a few landing craft involved as well, and one or two tugboats.

The Viggens had three arming options ready for the engagement: flare bombs for warning the enemy of, 120kg HE-bombs to damage the enemy and finally Rb-04 to sink the enemy.
The planned boarding party (24 man strong)consisted of officers from Kustjägarna and not Fallskärmsjägarna as I previously stated.

Brigade Games have a 1/56 U-boat if your scratch building skills aren't up to it, but it isn't cheap.
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