You obviously know very little about the history of the Royal Navy.
Flying a false flag etc is a well known strategy in Naval History.
What does that say about our genes.

Back to history lessons I see.

Usually your last resort.

Fact are Facts whether you like them or not.

You don't think they might have used high-powered binoculars to identify the ship as a NATO ally ?

I'm sure that Windy not only knew which ship it was but could also tell us what the crew had for breakfast.

However that does not excuse the use of false identification.

If that had been an aircraft entering UK airspace with false identity there would have been fighters scrambled to intercept / escort her.

Or the high powered sophistcated radar that probably showed the vessel up miles away from Gib and tracked it all the way.

applies to you ship mate

what has it got to do with the trousers you are wearing ???

the flying of a false flag was common when at war, unless I have missed something because I have been out hobnobbing with the Spanish, that is not the case -
we seek them here
we seek them there
those Spaniards is everywhere

I am sure that was the case, after all the radar on a small ship such as the Gib Sqdn would only cover 20miles, and because the mast is lower than the deck of a supertanker which would be able to get 30+ miles the use of binocs is always a must

but all you would see is a blip, no ident such as IFF available, which applies to the civil aircraft flying overhead full of holiday makers.
So radio callsigns are a must.
And IIRC the issueing of an incorrect callsign is against maritime law, which could lead to the vessel being impounded.

one down, a couple of hundred to go.

Exactly

I wouldn't worry about it.

On past form the Spanish navy are probably a bigger danger to themselves than they are to anybody else.

Right Load of Cobblers Coming out of Gibraltar at the Moment

Unfortunately we only have the limited reports from the Gibraltar Chronicle that seem to have been copied to The Daily Telegraph. No corroborative evidence. Not even details of which part of Gibraltar’s waters this happened.

The Gibraltar Chronicle was also the originator of the Queen Victoria non-event of last week. Is it trying single-handedly to push Britain into another punch-up with the entire Spanish-speaking world ?

You really do have to take a really close look at the reporting that comes out of Gib, when you see them trying to pass off a video of a cracked Royal Navy navigation screen as evidence that the International Maritime Organisation had moved the border so that part of La Linea is inside Gibraltar !

http://gbc.gi/news/3004/la-linea-mar...ng-to-un-chart

Then they showed an aerial photograph of mysterious marks on the seabed reputedly caused by two man skiffs with rakes, but leave in the bottom left-hand corner of the photo a 60,000 ton quadruple-screwed cruise-liner moored not but a few hundred metres away - that had nothing to do with it.

http://www.panorama.gi/localnews/hea...11149&offset=0

And don’t get me started on the “charity container”. I mean the hard work of the people involved in collecting has to be applauded, but what a debacle! Must have had every customs officer in the world holding their sides with laughter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Mlh...LTPGZJWO5ph0mg

Melton Mowbury doesn’t begin to describe it.

I have got news fo you , its 2014 not 1588 , I know you live in the past but this
is far fetched even by your standards.

Can't get more far fetched than this, .....yet believe it or not it's true.

Hope 8 months isn't too far in the past for you.

http://digitaljournal.com/article/350661

Madrid - Just as Spain’s Ministry of Defense has seen its budget cut by some 30% as part of recent austerity measures, it turns out they have spent some $680 million on the design of a brand new S-80 class submarine. One big problem, the darn thing won't float.

See what I mean now EMR ?

You will believe anything if it is anti Spanish ,
Are you sure that the article as not dated April 1st.