[Roccus]

IBTZ

[ARE SOLE]

Again?

[kindred]

Probably got a hand up from the Los Alamos sell out by the Clinton of military technology secrets.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

This is apparently recycled news, based on a thread from yesterday. Note that the article doesn't give the date when the incident happened.

The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise,(military chiefs red-faced)

Moreover, according to FR's resident naval expert Jeff Head, the ChiCom sub may have been "convinced" to surface during the encounter. If so, then it was probably a 688 attack sub accompanying the Kitty Hawk that scared the ChiComs out of the water.

[lilycicero]

Shippy ping.

[Always Right]

I am not sure why they are mystified, subs technology has made them incredibly quiet and very difficult to pick up by sonar.

[rod1]

Thanks a bunch Bubba and Hill Clinton, Bernard Swartz and Bill Richardson. You guys sold us down the river.

[Eye of Unk]

[em2vn]

This is the third time in the past two days that this unproved story has been posted on Free Republic.

[Eye of Unk]

[Eye of Unk]

[jwparkerjr]

Come on guys, think about this for a minute. What better way to find out what methods the enemy is using to approach you than letting him think it’s working and getting the scoop as he ‘sneaks’ up on you? It’s much more to their advantage to feign a red face than scare them away without getting the information they are bound to be giving away by moving in so close when they think are undetected. Investigators use this ruse all the time. The close the sub gets to our forces the more we can learn about them. No matter how hard they try they are emitting all sorts of interesting signals, etc. as they approach. For instance, maybe we want to find out for sure just how close one can get before we hear its super-quiet bearings or pick up on the fact it’s pinging our fleet.

Every sub as its ‘signature’ and one way to detect it farther away is to know exactly what you’re looking for and then figure out how to hear it sooner.

I find it hard to believe that we spend what we do on intelligence and defense and an enemy sub could simply sail up and surface flying a big ‘SURPRISE’ flag.

[abercrombie_guy_38]

Of course the first reply to the thread is claiming IBTZ. How dare we post these types of stories! I’ve seen it plenty of times, especially from Freepers who casually downplay what happened.

Move along, move along. Nothing to see here. /sarc

[gipper81]

Posted on 11/11/2007 5:02:18 AM PST by mreerm

I think people successfully sneaked up on 'mreerm' as a young child.

[OrioleFan]

Sneaky - must be all that lead in the paint.