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Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean'
Jantastic noted a BBC report saying "A Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision with a French nuclear sub in the middle of the Atlantic. It is understood HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant were badly damaged in the crash earlier this month. Despite being equipped with sonar, it seems neither vessel spotted the other, the BBC's Caroline Wyatt said."
Yeah cause then we'd have to read that shitty story that somebody is bound to post.
The french didn't surrender !
Russians used to do what were called "Crazy Ivans." If you are running at high speed, you can't hear squat, so to check for chasers, they'd do a 180 course change and run back down their track. You can't get precise position using passive means--there is always room for error, so the chasing sub would move out of the way, quickly and often noisily telling the Russian sub it was being followed.
If the Russian didn't detect the follower, the evasion tactic was enough to make the following captain cautious.
good times, good times.
Ha ha ha ha ha ho he he ha ho, and I thought my country's navy was bad.
Guess ol' Britannia and the Frogs just don't operate on the same intelligence level as us Americans.
Thanks for recapping "The Hunt for Red October" since no one ever saw that movie. Good for a +5 informative though, right whore?
This was modded up because....? The grand parent post was an attempt at humor, maybe not the best but what does jotaeleemeese reply have to do with anything? Maybe if jotaeleemeese were able to read he/she would have noticed the grandparent is most likely British not American. Hey jotaeleemeese, you mod yourself up with another account or had a friend mod your post up for you?