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The attack sub USS Connecticut, involved in an underwater collision in the South China Sea... 20
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A shipping container full of water (or whatever) will deform rapidly upon impact with the sub. As it crushes the interior volume is reduced and the water pressure inside will quickly blow open the doors or rip open a weld. The water quickly vents out and its mass is reduced. The container steel is thin and will crumple.
It is NOT like hitting a 30 ton solid object. More like a bat swung at plastic bottle full of water.
Me thinks it hit an uncharted rock (uncharted for us). Or barely maybe another sub, that is way unlikely. If there was another boat operating out there, we would hear it with passive sonar.
It is NOT like hitting a 30 ton solid object. More like a bat swung at plastic bottle full of water.
Me thinks it hit an uncharted rock (uncharted for us). Or barely maybe another sub, that is way unlikely. If there was another boat operating out there, we would hear it with passive sonar.
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It could have been a case of one sub closely following another which made an unexpected course change.
In fiction: The Hunt for Red October.
In real life: Incidences of this are related in the non-fiction work, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
The book, Blind Man's Bluff, relates a true account of a collision between an American and a Russian sub.
At the time, the Americans believed that the Russian sub had lost control, gone too deep and been crushed. It later transpired that the Russian sub survived and made it's way home.
American sub drivers liked to get into the baffles of an enemy sub and follow closely, sometime for days.
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In fiction: The Hunt for Red October.
In real life: Incidences of this are related in the non-fiction work, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
The book, Blind Man's Bluff, relates a true account of a collision between an American and a Russian sub.
At the time, the Americans believed that the Russian sub had lost control, gone too deep and been crushed. It later transpired that the Russian sub survived and made it's way home.
American sub drivers liked to get into the baffles of an enemy sub and follow closely, sometime for days.
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Ohm's law
Not just a good idea;
It's the LAW!
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JohnRBaker
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For what it's worth:
China is fixated on a mysterious US submarine incident in the South China Sea and keeps accusing the US of a cover-up
John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
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China is fixated on a mysterious US submarine incident in the South China Sea and keeps accusing the US of a cover-up
John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-'Product Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without
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Are autonomous hunter-killer shipping containers made out of that?
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FYI. It is rumoured that the subject isotopes of element 115 were developed by the Russians and are used extensively and almost exclusively by the Russians for espionage.
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Moscovium
Moscovium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Mc and atomic number 115.
Moscovium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Mc and atomic number 115.
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Ohm's law
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Could you make a hammer out of it?
...an Mc hammer...
...an Mc hammer...
Wow; LPS for the most unreadable image ever ;-)
It's from Wikipedia, so cut&paste seems apropos
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It's from Wikipedia, so cut&paste seems apropos
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That settles that.
Brad Waybright
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