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Indonesian navy searching for missing submarine with 53 on board; oil spill found near dive position
The Jakarta Post ^ | 21 Apr 2021

Posted on 04/21/2021 6:29:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: maxsand

Yep - when I saw torpedo exercise I’m wondering if one got “hot”

Shades of the Kursk too


21 posted on 04/21/2021 7:10:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ZOOKER

Read somewhere it was very deep water. Not confirmed.


22 posted on 04/21/2021 7:14:34 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

2300 feet...scrolling on FOX.


23 posted on 04/21/2021 7:19:42 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: nickcarraway

Submarines are not something third word navies should be messing with. They need to leave stuff like that to the big boys.


24 posted on 04/21/2021 7:21:46 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: Reno89519
They were probably praying but no one likely hears Muslim Cult prayers.
Muslims or not, they are sailors at the mercy of the sea. Your sick comment is really uncalled for.
25 posted on 04/21/2021 7:25:16 PM PDT by dainbramaged ( Zulus to the Southwest - thousands of 'em.)
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To: nickcarraway

Isn’t the depth of the sea nearby seven miles?


26 posted on 04/21/2021 7:31:12 PM PDT by vetvetdoug (,)
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To: vetvetdoug

After the first one it really doesn’t matter.


27 posted on 04/21/2021 7:37:32 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Pollard

Someone has to help fend off the CCP’s navy. Indonesia would be one of the first nations to fall on the party’s goal of taking mineral rich Australia.


28 posted on 04/21/2021 7:40:05 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: vetvetdoug

It is at the Marianas Trench near Guam. 35,800 feet.

(you made me look it up.)


29 posted on 04/21/2021 7:46:57 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

No, it was firing one of these, a German heavy torpedo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUT_torpedo


30 posted on 04/21/2021 7:50:23 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Pollard

They’re small but they have one. They kind of have to, they’re a multi-island nation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_Navy

Not bad for a small navy.


31 posted on 04/21/2021 7:52:59 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: SaveFerris

See post 30.


32 posted on 04/21/2021 7:54:01 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ZOOKER

From what I’ve read- sub is about 700’ test depth. Water near oil slick about 3X that.


33 posted on 04/21/2021 8:00:48 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
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To: miserare
I shudder to think what their last hours were like.

This never ends well.

God, have mercy on them



There was no hours involved. Whatever happened was quick...If the hull imploded, death would be instantaneous...to the point that it's unlikely anyone on board even perceived what happened. A mercifully quick death, if you can see that as a blessing.
34 posted on 04/21/2021 8:06:26 PM PDT by rottndog (Fact: There are more airplanes in the ocean than Submarines in the sky.)
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To: UNGN

Germany and South Korean builds. Probably pretty sound.


35 posted on 04/21/2021 8:27:07 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: SaveFerris; Chode; All

Prayers for The Crew and Families.

That was My first thought- Torpedo went off in the Tube.

Ping


36 posted on 04/21/2021 8:27:39 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: gundog

The Build may be solid, but the repair/maintenance is all done by corner cutting third worlders.

I’m in aviation. I see it daily. Even front line US military planes have some corner-cutting third-world mfg’d/repaired parts in them. The excuse is we live in a “global economy” and “don’t be xenophobic” keeps everyone silent, but when it comes to technology, all countries are not created equal.

Odds are better than even that someday in the near future, it will become an issue.


37 posted on 04/21/2021 8:41:08 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: gundog

The Build may be solid, but the repair/maintenance is all done by corner cutting third worlders.

I’m in aviation. I see it daily. Even front line US military planes have some corner-cutting third-world mfg’d/repaired parts in them. The excuse is we live in a “global economy” and “don’t be xenophobic” keeps everyone silent, but when it comes to technology, all countries are not created equal.

Odds are better than even that someday in the near future, it will become an issue.


38 posted on 04/21/2021 8:41:08 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: mabarker1

It was a Type 209/1300 built in the late 70’s/early 80’s. It was due (overdue according to most Indonesians in the know) for retirement. Unfortunately the Indonesian Navy hasn’t had the best record of maintaining their ships for all the same reasons western navies have maintenance issues plus lack of money and a surplus of corruption (so exactly the same as every western navy, just dialled up to 11).


39 posted on 04/21/2021 8:44:52 PM PDT by Dundee (They gave up all their tomorrows for our today's.)
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To: UNGN

https://www.foxnews.com/story/nepal-airline-sacrifices-two-goats-to-sky-god-in-face-of-aircraft-problems


40 posted on 04/21/2021 8:50:10 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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