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Offline mipoikel

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Submarine crash
« on: February 16, 2009, 08:03:47 AM »
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Offline Shamus

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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2009, 08:44:08 AM »
They should have had lookouts watching out the window.

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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2009, 11:34:09 AM »
I'm only amazed the british submarine didn't sink. It must have been just a graze on the paint.
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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2009, 11:36:53 AM »
must have been drunk.
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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2009, 12:35:29 PM »
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Offline crazyivan

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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2009, 12:36:46 PM »
Who was following who? And who put the brakes on ? :rolleyes:
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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2009, 12:41:42 PM »
Did anyone surrender?  :D
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Offline Rich46yo

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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2009, 12:45:30 PM »
What are the odds yathink?

Sounds to me like they were playing cutsie with each other. In case your wondering the Frenchie SSBM can take out about 96 targets, each warhead blowing at about 150 kt, "Hiroshima was 16 kt". And the Bloody Brit boat is loaded with 16 Yank Trident D-5s, each one capable of delivering up to 12 MIRV'ed warheads that blow at 450 kt. Thats 192 city busters!

Good Lord find a different bloody boat to play arse grab with.
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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2009, 12:47:05 PM »
Surprised when I heard it was a French and UK sub.  I figured an old Chinese sub would have be involved.  Ya know, probably in the left turn lane with its right blinker on for the last 5 miles going about 10 knots under the posted speed limit.

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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2009, 12:54:49 PM »
and yet despite this i still want to join the navy. :D

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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2009, 01:06:43 PM »
Didn't read the article, but you would think with all that top-notch radar this could have easily been avoided
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Offline Rich46yo

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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2009, 01:19:10 PM »
Quote from: B4Buster on February 16, 2009, 01:06:43 PM
Didn't read the article, but you would think with all that top-notch radar this could have easily been avoided

Submarines, most of all SSBMs, hate to use sonar for anything. Im not a navy guy but I know they like to become black holes in the ocean. Our Ohio class boats are so quiet even we cant find them.

We had a fair share of collisons playing arse grab with the commies but we would pick them up outside their ports and stay with them. Two SSNs I could understand because they are like the fighter jocks under the waves. But two SSBMs? I dont think its ever happened before.
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Offline Gman

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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2009, 01:22:33 PM »
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Submarines, most of all SLBMs, hate to use sonar for anything

Active sonar, yes.  Passive sonar is an SSN/SSBN 's bread and butter.
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Offline Rich46yo

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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #13 on: February 16, 2009, 01:30:27 PM »
Quote from: Gman on February 16, 2009, 01:22:33 PM
Active sonar, yes.  Passive sonar is an SSN/SSBN 's bread and butter.

Sonar is sonar. You send radio waves thru the ocean like you do radar. I dont think you would call "passive detection" "sonar". Anyway its all called a "combat system" in the end, using both active and passive sensors. Which is why I think both boats, both very capable boats, were playing grab arse with each other and crashed. I cant see either not knowing the other was out there when so close.

But...I'm not a navy guy. Maybe those who were/are could clarify.
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Re: Submarine crash
« Reply #14 on: February 16, 2009, 01:32:38 PM »
"CON Sonar", "CRAZY IVAN!!!!"
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