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To: taildragger

Why would the USA or Isreal care. That think looks almost WW2 vintage.

Probably sprung a leak and sunk.


33 posted on 05/12/2014 8:05:54 AM PDT by Bailee
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To: neverdem; SunkenCiv; Nachum; Bailee

Well, them there old-fashioned German WWII “short range diesel boats” ended up sinking quite a few US ships sailing ....... right offshore of Galveston carrying Houston ship channel oil.

Seems its not too much of a stretch to see them shooting a couple of modern (Russian/Chinese/NK/Cuban/ex-Ukrainian) modern self-guiding high-speed torpedoes at a few US escorts and tankers a few miles off of the coast of Iran.

To stop a tanker with only one propeller attached to a very large, very noisy direct drive diesel engine that is VERY NOISY all you have to is push a button. To sink a US escort that can’t use sonar because of a VERY NOISY tanker close aboard all you need is two torpedoes. And one button.


56 posted on 05/12/2014 9:34:58 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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