Hey, that smarts!
Posted on 04/28/2015 5:22:46 AM PDT by McGruff
Finland’s navy dropped depth charges this morning as a warning to a suspected submarine in waters near Helsinki, raising tensions with neighbouring Russia.
The navy said that it had detected an underwater target on Monday and again today and fired warning charges the size of grenades.
Carl Haglund, the defence minister, did not say whether Russian involvement was suspected.
Finland ready to wup Russian ass AGAIN
Time to dust off the 20MM Lahtis
Read once where Navy ships would force Soviet subs in US waters to the surface by dropping “depth bombs”; these were hand grenades with the pin pulled & wrapped with toilet paper with enough turns so that the grenade would plunge to the sub’s depth before the TP dissolved.
Underwater the exploding grenades sounded like the real thing & the Russkies would frantically surface; the encounter ended with shouts & middle finger waves by both sides.
I don’t think the Russians are ready to again freeze by the thousands around Lake Laatokka like in 1940.
Hey, that smarts!
Finland calls it “Sisu”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu
They give it to the Greeks as well as the Russians...
My only disappointment with the place was when Sako got acquired by Beretta.
'Submarine' in Sweden was only civilian boat
The ritual charade continues...
Yup
Finland? Impressive! Well done!
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Sweden’s military said a mysterious object sighted in its waters was not a Russian spy submarine as initially suggested but rather a civilian fishing boat.
The Scandinavian country launched an extensive Cold War-style hunt last October after detecting what it described as foreign “underwater activity,” claims bolstered by a grainy image circulated in the press.
Ola Truedsson, commander of the naval division of Sweden’s armed forces, said Wednesday that it was now clear the Oct. 31 image was not of a submarine.
D’oh
Time for Sweden and Finland to join NATO.
On October 31st 2014, retired naval officer Sven Olof Kviman snapped a picture of what looked like a 20-30 metre long, black submarine in waters just outside Lidingö in Stockholm. The incident has remained unconfirmed, but has been classed by the military as a “potential” submarine.
But Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad has now told Swedish newspapers that the Armed Forces reported to the Swedish government last Wednesday that the suspected underwater vessel was in fact only a civilian “working boat”.
“The analysis has shown that the photograph taken in Stockholm’s inner archipelago was of a smaller boat,” Grenstad told Dagens Nyheter on Monday.
According to Grenstad, the picture instead showed the boat “Time Bandit”, a 10.5 metre long, white plastic boat. But the boatman using the vessel on October 31st claimed the Swedish military had not been in contact with him.
http://www.thelocal.se/20150413/suspected-sub-in-swedish-waters-was-working-boat
No. They are dropping SUS - Sound, Underwater Source. We used to drop them to create elliptical range lines in tracking a sub. They are small explosives used strictly for ranging or underwater signaling. We stopped using them when we went to non-explosive sound generators in the 1980s. One crew did wire five of them together and bomb a Russian sub. Created a letter of protest from Moscow.
“Raising tensions” is a hilarious statement, because Russia cannot admit that it sent a submarine into Finland’s waters.
It also sends the Russians a strong message that “we know you are down there, because we can hear you, so if we wanted to, you would be dead Russians.”
Depth charges with the characteristics of grenades?
Must be training rounds
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