Posted on 04/24/2021 5:15:11 AM PDT by mylife
Maybe it's a racing submarine.
Agree, RIP
And I can trace my history
Down one generation to my home
In one of our submarines
(One of the best songs of the 80s IMHO)
“What in the world does Indonesia need with a submarine?”
To keep an eye on it’s commercial airliners...?
Looks Chinese.
Rest in peace, soldiers.
My heart goes out to their families.
Ouch...LOL!
It won't matter if China gets serious - without an actively interventionist US Navy they could ultimately conquer Southeast Asia and even Australia with far less difficulty than Japan faced in 1942. They have the economic power to compel obedience, which Japan did not. Indonesia having a submarine or two might deter some illegal fishing vessels - that's about it.
Poor submariners....RIP....
Very good.
Horrible. If I ever had to go into one, I’d bring a cyanide pill.
Indonesia is a collection of about 16,000 islands with a number of globally important sealanes running through it. Also, there is their dispute with China over the Natuna Islands which both countries claim (one look at the map gives you an idea of how valid China's claim is...).
Stealthy access to address a threat? Drug interdiction? Indonesia is an island nation.
Why?
German. Type 209
Actually, Indonesia has (or had) six subs, with three more currently on order.
You beat me to it.
I blame China.
OK, I give up. A ‘torpedo straightener’?
In addition China wants to rule the world.
What better timing will they ever have with the U.S. crippled by so many different issues, such as a weak president, a deeply divided nation, and the worldwide pandemic in play? So they start attacking smaller nations within their immediate realm to seize control of that part of the world.
Not all countries are going to be as easy to capture as the U.S. in its current state. They don't have to go after the U.S. directly, they can just sit back on that front and let the events unfold for the country ti destroy itself.
it’s like relative bearings...
“I’ll bet China is behind the sinking of that sub.”
I was thinking that also.
One other asked me to explain why I felt as I did. So I posted a response to that person.
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