Posted on 03/14/2007 9:35:39 AM PDT by ryan71
NORFOLK, Va. - The Navy temporarily lost communication with a submarine off Florida's coast and sent ships and aircraft to search for the USS San Juan before the vessel was contacted early Wednesday, military officials said.
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There were no problems with the Los Angeles class sub, based in Groton, Conn., and the Navy was investigating the incident, the Naval Submarine Force said in a statement.
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I thought our modern subs couldn't be detected by surface ships and aircraft. So much for stealthy design.
He gets this piece of Pavarotti...
Paganini.
Whatever.
Paganini.
This is my story, OK?
Tell it right.
Pavarotti's a tenor.
Paganini was a composer.
CIA testing an EMP device?
"I think it's unwise to announce such things....
If it was caused by someone testing "blocking" equipment -- it gave them some useful and perhaps dangerous information....."
Of course, OPSEC is paramount, but if this was a test the Navy would not be out looking for these guys and calling in rescue teams.
Whales were jamming the signal.
They didnt say they detected the sub they just reestablished contact. That could have come from the sub.
Agreed. Our Military needs to remember that "Loose lips sink ships."
"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast." William Tecumseh Sherman
You misunderstood...
The "someone" I was referring to had a Koran nearby, or Mao's little Red Book.
Not OUR guys..
Semper Fi
"Can you hear me now?"
A torpedo or two should resolve that issue.
Clearly the "cone of silence, 99!
Physeter Macrocephalus for those non marine biologist out there
"If I push the rabbit ears out a little, then add a little more tin foil to each one, then stand on one foot with my left hand holding the right one...."
I read that damned book 8 times and am past counting the times that I saw the movie...
When I was in the Navy I was at SUBBASE Pearl Harbor (I know, tough duty) and worked on the 688 LA class so I was completely enamoured of all things sub. This was early eighties so we had to have quarterly Soviet Readiness Training...most people grumbled...I loved it!
Wildfire? Sounds like someone read the book and decided to give it a dry run.
;-)
Hey, Navy! Maybe she just doesn't want to talk to you right now...
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