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  • Danish military took photos of Russian ship near North Stream pipelines

    04/27/2023 2:59:31 PM PDT · by familyop · 58 replies
    Welt (Germany) ^ | April 27, 2023 | Welt
    [familyop: the following is a translation to English courtesy of Welt.]The Russian special ship „ SS-750 “ is designed for underwater actions and has a mini submarine with gripping farms. The Danish Defense Command now confirms that a patrol ship observed the „ SS-750 “ a few days before the Nord Stream explosions.A few days before the Nord Stream explosions in the Baltic Sea, according to the Danish military, a Russian special ship was located near the detonation sites. The Danish Defense Command confirmed the newspaper „information“ that a patrol ship on 22. September 2022 east of the island of...
  • Sinking to new lows

    06/26/2010 9:17:51 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 28 replies · 1+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | 6/26/2010 | Dane Schiller
    Drug traffickers are spending $1 million a pop to build boats that look like submarines and can carry 4 tons of cocaine for 2,000 miles without refueling. Nicknamed "narco subs," they're made to sneak loads up from South America to Mexico, where the drugs are offloaded and taken overland into the United States. "It is a semi-submersible coffin," said Jay Bergman, Andean regional director for the Drug Enforcement Administration. "You batten down the hatches and you are doing everything to not be detected sailing in the middle of the ocean." At least 13 of the craft have been stopped and...
  • Nuclear Leak In North Korea

    06/23/2010 11:33:32 PM PDT · by bruinbirdman · 13 replies
    Forbes ^ | 6/23/2010 | Gordon G. Chang
    Is Kim Jong-il building a new type of weapon? On Monday Seoul announced that the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety had detected unusually high levels of xenon gas near the North Korea border on May 14. The concentration of xenon was eight times higher than normal, and the presence of the gas is indicative of nuclear activities. Because the wind was blowing south at the time, the source of the gas could not have been one of South Korea's nuclear plants. The xenon might have originated in China or Russia, but the most likely place was the land of unexplained...
  • Finding The Tiny Terrors

    06/14/2010 1:14:21 AM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 1 replies · 353+ views
    The Strategy Page ^ | 6/12/2010 | The Strategy Page
    The use of a North Korea midget sub to sink a South Korean corvette three months ago, has forced the United States, and South Korea, to seriously confront the problems involved in finding these small subs in coastal waters. This is a difficult task, because the target is small, silent (moving using battery power) and in a complex underwater landscape, that makes sonar less effective. After the Cold War ended in 1991, the U.S. recognized that these coastal operations would become more common. So, in the 1990s, the U.S. developed the Advanced Deployable System (ADS) for detecting non-nuclear submarines in...
  • South Korea closer to blaming North for sinking ship

    05/13/2010 5:50:42 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 9 replies · 296+ views
    Reuters ^ | 5/13/2010 | CheonanReuters
    South Korea came closer on Thursday to blaming North Korea for the sinking of a navy ship in March that killed 46 sailors with reports saying it plans economic measures to punish Pyongyang for a suspected torpedo attack.South Korea has not officially accused the North of sinking its navy ship but has made little secret of its belief Pyongyang deliberately torpedoed the 1,200 corvette Cheonan near their disputed border in retaliation for a naval clash last year. "The sinking of the Cheonan showed the cold hard realities of division (on the peninsula) for the world to see," South Korea's pointman...
  • N. Korea's Mini-Sub Plated With Sonar-Absorbing Tiles to Evade Detection

    04/06/2010 3:38:40 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 14 replies · 1,279+ views
    Chosun Ilbo ^ | 04/07/10 | Ryu Yong-won
    /begin my excerpts N. Korea's Mini-Sub Plated With Sonar-Absorbing Tiles to Evade Detection Ryu Yong-won N. Korea's Shark class and Yugo class mini-submarines are plated with sonar-absorbing tiles to evade detection by our side, and some Yugo class mini-subs carry 533mm heavy torpedoes, it has been revealed. Intelligence sources said on Apr. 6 that, according to investigation by relevant authorities regarding N. Korea's (mini-)submarine, torpedoes and mines, N. Korea obtained Russian technology with which they developed sonar-absorbing tiles and plated their Yugo class mini-submarines with them. The tiles are made of chlorinated rubber with silicon mixed in. N. Korea is...
  • N. Korean Mini-sub(s) on the Move around the Time of Ship Sinking

    03/30/2010 4:00:36 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 17 replies · 975+ views
    Chosun Ilbo ^ | 03/31/10 | Ryu Yong-won
    /begin my excerpts N. Korean Mini-sub(s) on the Move around the Time of Ship Sinking Ryu Yong-won, military affairs correspondent 2010.03.31 02:4 S. Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities, "Disappeared from their base and came back a few days later" Speculation is abound on what sunk the Navy Ship 'Cheonan,' including the possibility of torpedo and mine attack by N. Korean mini-submarine(s) or half-submersible mini-vessel(s,) it has been confirmed that their mini-sub(s) (or half-submersible mini-vessel(s)) disappeared around Mar. 26, the day of (Cheonan's)sinking, from N. Korea's Yellow Sea submarine base which is located not far from Baek-ryong Island, (the island right...
  • New airlock mini-sub for US Navy SEAL 'operations'

    02/12/2010 3:44:50 PM PST · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 30 replies · 1,026+ views
    The "A" Register ^ | 1/11/2010 | The "A" Register
    The US Navy SEALs, America's secretive frogman-commando elite, are to get a new and enlarged pocket submarine which will allow them to travel most of the way to an objective inside in the dry and then exit through an airlock before swimming on for their final approach. Ordinary "wet" SDV mini-sub in action. The SEALs and comparable elite forces such as the British SBS have long used "wet" Swimmer Delivery Vehicles (SDVs) to approach an objective below the waves, allowing them to move faster and further than an unaided frogman can. With a normal SDV, the frog-trooper isn't inside a...
  • Scientists Clarify ‘Mini-Sub’ Role at Pearl Harbor

    01/09/2010 1:44:58 PM PST · by SandRat · 3 replies · 860+ views
    WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2010 – Scientists who have been studying wreckage from Japanese mini-submarines that were part of an advance strike force on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, say a new television show is informative, but could leave viewers with misunderstandings. For one thing, they say, the show -- part of PBS’s “NOVA” series -- reveals no new discoveries. “It's basically a synopsis of the work that we performed up through 2000,” Navy Capt. John A. Rodgaard said during a “DoDLive” bloggers roundtable Jan. 6. Rodgaard was joined by Peter Hsu, a scientist who analyzes forensic shock effects of...
  • Pearl Harbor submarine find rewrites history

    12/08/2009 12:09:56 PM PST · by jazusamo · 34 replies · 1,806+ views
    Seattle Times ^ | December 8, 2009 | Thomas H. Maugh II
    A Japanese mini-submarine, newly discovered in other underwater debris, may have capsized the battleship Oklahoma with a torpedo.The remains of a Japanese mini-submarine that participated in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor have been discovered, researchers say, offering strong evidence that the sub fired its torpedoes at Battleship Row. That could settle a long-standing argument among historians. Five mini-subs were to participate in the strike, but four were scuttled, destroyed or run aground without being a factor in the attack. The fate of the fifth has remained a mystery. But a variety of new evidence suggests it fired...
  • U.S. Law Fights Submarine-Like Boats Hauling Cocaine

    04/07/2009 4:47:07 AM PDT · by kellynla · 39 replies · 2,294+ views
    cnsnews.com ^ | April 06, 2009 | Frank Bajak
    Bogota (AP) - It's a game played out regularly on the high seas off Colombia's Pacific coast: A U.S. Navy helicopter spots a vessel the size of a humpback whale gliding just beneath the water's surface. A Coast Guard ship dispatches an armed team to board the small, submarine-like craft in search of cocaine. Crew members wave and jump into the sea to be rescued, but not before they open flood valves and send the fiberglass hulk and its cargo into the deep. Colombia has yet to make a single arrest in such scuttlings because the evidence sinks with the...
  • Officer blamed in mini-sub probe

    08/15/2005 3:26:18 PM PDT · by IonImplantGuru · 14 replies · 605+ views
    BBC ^ | 8/22/05 | Beeb
    Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal case against a naval captain accused of negligence during the recent rescue of a mini-submarine. The captain of the Georgy Kozmin rescue vessel damaged a Russian underwater robot craft at the accident site in the Pacific, naval prosecutors said. The setback meant the navy had to call for foreign help - and a UK rescue craft finally freed the submersible. The crew of seven resurfaced on 7 August after 76 hours on the seabed. The breakdown of the Russians' Venom vehicle - similar to the successful Scorpio robot that freed the mini-sub - cost...
  • Whistleblower broke secret of Russian sub and 'saved men's lives

    08/09/2005 12:06:12 PM PDT · by d-informed-1 · 49 replies · 1,864+ views
    AFP ^ | 8/9/05 | AFP
    Without an anonymous phone call by a tearful woman to a local radio station, the world may have heard too late about the Russian submarine stranded in the Pacific to save its seven crew, the journalist who took the call claimed. Guzel Latypova, a journalist in the port city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, says the mysterious caller shattered an official silence and in doing so pressured the authorities to look abroad for help in mounting the rescue. The telephone rang at Radio 3, where Latypova is news director, about 24 hours after the AS-28 mini-sub became trapped 190 meters (625 feet) under...
  • Japanese mini sub find draws worldwide interest

    08/30/2002 1:12:09 PM PDT · by Vidalia · 26 replies · 378+ views
    Honolulu Advertiser ^ | Friday, August 30, 2002 | William Cole
    <p>After looking for 15 years, finding the Japanese submarine that drew the first fire of the United States in the war in the Pacific was not something the University of Hawai'i was completely prepared for.</p> <p>The Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory found that out when it returned to port Wednesday and saw a pier lined with reporters.</p>