Sailor, you had the whole Atlantic Ocean to turn in and you did what...? - by Ulukai
Ulukai on 16/2/2009 at 22:14
(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7892294.stm) British and French Nuclear Submarines Collide
Hahahaha. And seriously, WTF? Several Billion dollars worth of nuclear deterrent and they just crash into each other? You think they'd pay someone to pay more attention to the sonar.
BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt said the incident was "incredibly embarrassing" for the Ministry of Defence (MoD). No shit.
Want to blow up a NATO submarine? Forget torpedoes. Hell, just get something the size of a brick shithouse, pack it with explosives and drive it, extremely slowly, on an intercept course. Arrrrgh.
Heads need to roll.
demagogue on 16/2/2009 at 22:28
I was in Japan when a US sub ran into a Japanese fishing boat. And I remember watching the news report, not understanding a word of the Japanese but seeing these all these technical graphics of a US submarine and somebody explaining how it moved and thinking "great, who did we declare war on now..."
Jason Moyer on 16/2/2009 at 23:02
Quote:
The submarines are equipped with sonar to detect other vessels nearby but our correspondent said it might be the case that the anti-sonar devices, meant to hide the submarines from enemies, were "too effective".
This
june gloom on 16/2/2009 at 23:24
well at least we know it works
heretic on 16/2/2009 at 23:46
*Obligatory cliche joke alert*
Drumroll
Is it true that the French surrendered almost immediately afterwards?
Cymbals crash
:p
Scots Taffer on 17/2/2009 at 00:17
Personally I think it's a cover for the giant seacreature theory I've been harbouring for months
fett on 17/2/2009 at 00:38
Goddammit Scots, how many times must we tell you? CLOVERFIELD IS ASS.
