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Posted on 03/04/2026 6:40:16 AM PST by srmanuel
I'm surprised it's been that long since an US Submarine has sunk an enemy ship using a torpedo. You wonder what the Captain and crew of that submarine were thinking when they finally fired a torpedo in a real war versus in training.
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The Captain was thinking “well, I’m a shoe-in to make flag rank, now!”
That boat’s crew will be celebrities for the rest of their careers.
Well, they’ve earned it.
This was a good test, and probably the cheapest way to sink it.
Submariners don’t have a lot of exciting service stories they can share in a bar, but this crew does.
Assuming the sub will eventually be identified.
Now that’s funny.
~100 metrers, maybe 1500 tonnes displacement.
That 650# warhead detonation under the keel would have meant a near instant kill to a ship that size. The gas bubble lifts if up, and the keel snaps in half on the drop down.
150-180 enemy combatants on board. Revenge for the USS Cole.
As I recall the last sinking of a warship with a submarine launched torpedo was during the Falklands war when a British submarine sank the Argentine cruiser Adm. Belgrano.
Do you hear something?
No.
BOOM.
All we ‘need’ to know is that it was an attack boat. Arguably faster than its prey.
Allhu Ackbar
My grandson works at Electric Boat...which is the company that makes these submarines. He just got promoted to Supervisor of XXXXXX.
US Navy released footage. WOW! Her back gets broken immediately.
Within the submariner community I’m sure that crew is the talk of the town already or will be shortly.
There are only two types of vessels. Subs and targets.
This crew of sewer sailors won’t ever need to buy beer in a bar again.
They were running away
You know there are a bunch of other captains out there pissed that they did not get the chance. They practice this all the time but never get to do it for real.
Everyone onboard must have been like “YES!!! FINALLY WE GET TO SHOOT A TORPEDO!”
In the Indian Ocean?
Somewhere in Beijing, a lot of high-ranking PLA Navy officers are suddenly sitting up and paying very close attention.
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