"We're comin' ta git you, dead..."
Posted on 04/18/2006 1:35:46 PM PDT by dagnabbit
For almost a year the US Navy has been hunting a Swedish submarine, the HMS Gotland, off America's west coast.
The hunt is, of course, a one year training programme - but the Americans now want to extend the contract with the Swedish Navy.
Time after time, as part of the Americans' training in tracking down smaller vessels, the Swedish submarine and its crew have eluded their pursuers.
The programme started last summer but the US Navy has said that it would like to hire the Swedish submarine and crew for another year, reported the newspaper Blekinge Läns Tidning.
That is good news as far as the Swedish submarine flotilla is concerned, and it has already requested the government's permission to continue.
"Both the Americans and ourselves are interested in a continuation," said Jens Plambeck, chief of staff at the First Submarine Flotilla in Karlskrona.
The key to the HMS Gotland's success is the Stirling engines which allow the submarine to remain underwater for a unusually long time.
Smallish sub with Sterling cycle motor or some such.
I say if we find it, we don't tell them.
Let them think we can't do it -- at least for now.
I find this hard to believe.
If Sweden is smart, they'll recognize the window of opportunity they have to militarily annihilate the US and assume sole superpower status for themselves.
I don't. The bloody things are very, very quiet. They don't need to snorkel, either. The Navy needs this training. I am glad they are getting it.
Why?
"We're comin' ta git you, dead..."
050627-N-0685S-003 San Diego, Ca. (June 27, 2005) – The Swedish diesel-powered attack submarine HMS Gotland arrives in San Diego on a transport ship from Sweden. Gotland will begin a one-year bilateral training effort with the U.S. Navy’s anti-submarine warfare forces in July. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Jo A. Wilbourn Sims (RELEASED)
Just wait for them to perform a Crazy Inga at the bottom of the hour.
Not hard to believe at all. I served on a much larger LA-class sub and none of the targets (surface ships) or P-3 Orions could find us. We would start intentionally making noise and hang out in the middle of the fleet and they still wouldn't hear us. ASW is a very, very difficult field.
LOL
Our Navy has probably found it dozens of times. This is good disinformation: If we can find it but let the world think we can't, we can then let our friends the Swedes sell the subs to Iran, N. Korea, etc., making the Swedes lots of money. Those countries will then think they have a "stealth" sub to use against us, but when push comes to shove, we will know exactly where they are. The US and Sweden win, the bad guys lose. PERFECT.
The US military never, and I mean NEVER, discloses their full capabilities for just this reason. Example: The stealth fighter, which was around for a LONG time before it was acknowledged.
Translated to Swedish Chef
Fur elmust a yeer zee US Nefy hes beee hoonteeng a Svedeesh soobmereene-a, zee HMS Gutlund, ooffff Emereece's vest cuest. Um de hur de hur de hur. Zee hoont is, ooff cuoorse-a, a oone-a yeer treeening prugremme-a - boot zee Emereecuns noo vunt tu ixtend zee cuntrect veet zee Svedeesh Nefy. Bork bork bork! Teeme-a effter teeme-a, es pert ooff zee Emereecuns' treeening in treckeeng doon smeller fessels, zee Svedeesh soobmereene-a und its croo hefe-a ilooded zeeur poorsooers. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Zee prugremme-a sterted lest soommer boot zee US Nefy hes seeed thet it vuoold leeke-a tu hure-a zee Svedeesh soobmereene-a und croo fur unuzeer yeer, repurted zee noospeper Blekeenge-a Läns Teedning. Thet is guud noos es fer es zee Svedeesh soobmereene-a fluteella is cuncerned, und it hes elreedy reqooested zee gufernment's permeessiun tu cunteenooe-a. "But zee Emereecuns und oooorselfes ere-a interested in a cunteenooeshun," seeed Jens Plembeck, cheeeff ooff steffff et zee Furst Soobmereene-a Fluteella in Kerlskruna. Zee key tu zee HMS Gutlund's sooccess is zee Sturleeng ingeenes vheech elloo zee soobmereene-a tu remeeen underveter fur a unoosooelly lung teeme-a.
Starboard at the bottom of the hour and port at the top?
Or was it the other way around??.....
"The 30-person male and female crew is comprised of 19 officers and 11 conscripts. " - Navy NewsStand
/johnny
Agreed. We no doubt have scramjet fighters or at least spyplanes that can break Mach 10 and fly sub-orbital. If an Aussie university can test-fly such a thng then I'd be disappointed if we didn't have a few hangared out at Groom Lake.
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