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2012-03-14 Africa North

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Posted by Steve White 2012-03-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Iran would definitely want to bottle up the Suez prior to hostilities. I wish the USN would start disappearing Iranian submarines, as in "just gone".

The rather silly James Bond movie, "The Spy Who Loved Me" got me thinking about how the USN could actually pull off an enemy submarine "disappearance", to make it look like an accident at sea. The Hunt For Red October reinforced this concept. If you combine elements of the two, there might be some real possibilities.

First, take out their propellers, while at the same time anchoring them so they cannot surface when they blow their tanks. Both of these things could be done with a heavy anchored fishing net.

Kill the crew with odorless poison gas, then tow the boat out of its patrol lane over an ocean trench, and surface it for a surface ship to harvest anything of value. Then seal it up nice and tight, and send it down to meet Davy Jones far past crush depth.

Posted by Anonymoose 2012-03-14 14:42|| 2012-03-14 14:42|| Front Page Top

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