A very bad man!
Posted on 04/29/2021 5:42:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
As the author of Red November, Spies of the Deep, and other submarine/military books, and as a former U.S. Navy Diver and submariner, I have access to “inside information” about the lost Indonesian submarine KRI Nanggala 402. The 1977-vintage German-built Cakra-class diesel submarine disappeared on Wednesday, April 21. It’s a smaller boat, only 195 feet long by 20 feet wide, with four diesel engines that recharge a bank of batteries to provide a few days of power while submerged. The sub then needs to come shallow to “snorkel” by running its engines to recharge batteries and ventilate the air.
The commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces reported that the Nanggala had gone missing in waters about fifty nautical miles north of Bali. The Indonesian navy verified that the sub requested permission to dive prior to test firing two Surface and Underwater Target (SUT) torpedoes. An hour later, the training task force commanding officer authorized the shots, and the Nanggala flooded its torpedo tubes. The Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Navy said the Nanggala fired both an unloaded practice and a live torpedo before contact was lost.
What might have happened to the Indonesian submarine that led to its demise? How is this incident similar to the loss of the Russia Kursk submarine in August 2000? The Indonesian navy relayed that the Nanggala may have had battery power issues after submerging in waters more than 2,000 feet deep, which exceeds the sub’s crush depth by 400 feet. Torpedo test firings can also be hazardous, as the Kursk disaster demonstrated.
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It imploded. The hull was found in pieces.
For what purpose?
It didn't. It was an excuse the Russians floated to place blame elsewhere.
Not real sure that the Indonesian military has a great need to be fooling around Bali in submarines.
These were wire-guided torpedoes. I think that’s a different animal than the old WW2 torpedoes that were kind of fire-and-forget. Maybe somebody can amplify on that point.
The WWII boats I was on had what they called "positive buoyancy' in that if you lost all propulsive power and could blow your tanks, you would surface. I read that the nuclear boats had "negative buoyancy" that needed propulsion even with blown tanks in order to get back up.
“I had no idea that the Toledo may have caused the Kursk to sink.”
Russians wanted to blame Toledo and even cooked up rumors that she had to visit Scotland for repairs. Later evidence showed Kursk somehow destroyed himself (Russian ships use masculine pronouns).
But to put things into perspective, Kursk’s hull was longer than the depth to which it sank, meaning if it had sunk straight down, its stern would have been above water. But it was still too deep to have a chance to rescue any of its crew.
I was thinking the same thing.
Torpedo exploded in the tube or somehow circled back and hit them.
“Kapitan Kolesnikov” by DDT (The Kursk)
Music Video by Russian group DDT, subtitled into English thanks to Link TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaLk-LqR0pc
Song
Капитан Колесников (Прекрасная любовь)
Artist
ДДТ
Album
Прекрасная любовь
awesome find
A different video montage - worth watching
ДДТ-Капитан Колесников
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=robLjYLW91A
See Larry King ask Putin about the Kursk at 3:30 mins (on the second clip I posted).
they flat out told us if anything happens we will deny you where there
and lots happened and they know, I wired the boats for sound and sent the tapes to nsa , but there was no international incident no lives lost Putin’s response is what I would expect
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