[Fred Hayek]

Actually both boats are boomers. And both have the mission of not being found - as in running extremely silent. Getting pinged by sonar can make a bit of a divot in a boomer boat commander’s career, since getting pinged by active sonar pretty much indicates the boat has been found. Happened to an Ohio boomer, pinged by an RCN vessel. Anyhow this collision is likely to be a career ender for two captains, if the RN and French Navy policies are anything similar to the USN.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Fred H


Another thought ... this accident allegedly happened two weeks ago ... in the Atlantic ... between friendly subs ...


The Brits and French could be falsifying all pieces of "information" ...


Location possibility ? Almost anywhere, especially the Persian Gulf ...

Time Frame: Anytime in the last 30 days ...

Accident "damage" ?

Easy to fake some "alleged" sonar dome damage to the French sub ... while the subs were later surfaced at a far-away location ... such as Diego Garcia ... or else alongside a USN Sub Tender ...


The point is that both the Brit and French navies have announced that an accident happened, will probably never release "accurate" photos of the damage ... and No One will ever know when it exactly happened ...


Who knows ?

Maybe they helped sink an Iranian Diesel Boat 30 days ago in the Indian Ocean ... or the Mediterrian ... perhaps (Tom Clancy time) as the Iranian Diesel Boat was attempting to unload terrorists-weapons-ordinance somwwhere in either England or France ...

Boomers ... do in fact ... carry torpeodoes ...

All that -- in fact -- sounds like the "perfect explantion" ...


Patton-at-Bastogne



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