What could go wrong? /s
Is anyone else creeped out by the accelerating destabilization efforts of this corrupt regime and its Senatorial enablers?
/tinfoil hat off ... sorta
“Silent Running: Russian attack submarine sailed in Gulf of Mexico undetected for weeks...”
I find this hard to believe.
Gertz has a way of getting excited over a tiny bit of info. The notion that Ivan was taking a Carribean cruise and our SSN’s didn’t know about it is somewhat silly. We wouldn’t try to stop Ivan from taking his cruise, probly checking in with Hugo in Venzuela, but we dam sure know he was there.-—————————Interesting thing-—the russians don’t have a clue about building quiet subs. To get speed they go for power, large machinery, etc. On a good day you can hear one go by FROM THE BEACH. And Ivan doesn’t want to spend money on sound isolators, rubber hoses and all those dozens of other small things necessary to keep machine noise away from water.-———————————The interesting question here is who shot their mouth off about the russian sub being there, if it was, and what is the purpose of the “exposure” ? I’m pretty sure the guys who tail Ivan didn’t head for the closest mike to yell “Ivan was here”.
The ASW mission has been given short shrift since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We don’t even fly carrier-based fixed wing ASW aircraft any more (the last S-3 Viking squadron was retired in 2009), and I am sure there has been similar lack of emphasis on ASW in the surface fleet. I sure hope the SSN guys have kept things up in this space, but they can’t do it alone. They have their hands pretty full keeping the CVNs safe.
IIRC, the Nazis got just as close with their U-Boats in WWII. We need to bring back those old Catalina PBY flying boats and put them back on patrol.
Cool, submarine sailed in the Gulf and a bear defecated in a wood.
Submarines are doing it all the time, that is why they are made. I don’t think it is a big deal if one wasn’t tracked because detection abilities of SOSUS are great but not absolute for sure. Submarine is a pretty tiny thing in comparison to Atlantic.
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I bet that Russian sub had centerfold pin-ups taped to the head doors.