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2014-05-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranian Sub Lost While Practicing To Sink U.S. Carrier

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Posted by DarthVader 2014-05-12 16:26|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Karma is a bitch.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-05-12 16:32|| 2014-05-12 16:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Damn! I was laughing so hard I wet myself. Cant even sink a 1/3 scale plywood replica...

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-05-12 16:34|| 2014-05-12 16:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Stealth technology can be a bitch.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-05-12 16:37|| 2014-05-12 16:37|| Front Page Top

#4 It's tough maintaining that surfacing/submergence ratio close to or greater than 1.

Posted by AlmostAnonuymous5839 2014-05-12 16:46|| 2014-05-12 16:46|| Front Page Top

#5 The US Navy is so badass, mock-ups have kill counts.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-05-12 17:28|| 2014-05-12 17:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Snark 'o the day winner with swksvoIFF!

Posted by DarthVader 2014-05-12 17:33|| 2014-05-12 17:33|| Front Page Top

#7 mahmoud, did you close the screen door?

Posted by flash91 2014-05-12 18:21|| 2014-05-12 18:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Obama's new post-Assad/Syria Crisis BFF + OWG Co-Superpower Iran sees itself as the de facto MilPol Muslim Global Superpower the Sunni Saudis + even the Ottoman Turks never were nor desired to be.

IMO the NIMITZ-mockup is "dual-use", i.e. not just for target practice. IRAN WANTS EVERYTHING + ANYTHING THE US + GREAT POWERS HAVE, OR HAD, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO REAL CONVENTIONAL + NUKULAAR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.

Again, its no longer the US-vs-China in Asia-Pacific or the Pacific, but US-VS-CHINA-VS-NUCLEAR-ISLAM.

As illustrated by China's increasingly "global" Uighur terrorism, ITS ONLY A QUESTION IFF RADICAL ISLAM = SOON-TO-BE-NUCLEAR HARD BOYZ ATTACK CHINA [+ by extension RUSSIA, ETAL.] OR THE US BEFORE ATTACKING THE OTHER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-05-12 20:01|| 2014-05-12 20:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Even with the real, or imagined, sinking, the Ghadir is another example of Iranian resourcefulness in the face of embargoes. Since 1996, when Russia agreed to stop selling them submarines, Iran has been working on their own designs.

Well, it appears they got the submerging part right

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-05-12 22:28|| 2014-05-12 22:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Debka's take on the sub incident.

Interesting part:

debkafiles military sources reveal that IRGC chiefs are also looking at ways of disabling US warships in the Mediterranean, to put them out of action for a second-strike attack on the Lebanese Hizballah by missiles or for sending bombers over Iran.

Additional info (probably Iranian source, but on an unverified site):

These miniature submarines as built by the Iranian allegedly in profusion about one-tenth [1/10] the size of a conventional diesel/electric submersible, carrying only two torpedoes, missions as assigned primarily of an unconventional and asymmetric nature, and then ONLY limited at that!

Such vessels when in a swarm mode of attack destroying an American naval target, numbers alone both under the water and above sufficient!

Posted by Pappy 2014-05-12 23:03|| 2014-05-12 23:03|| Front Page Top

#11 ION NOT-IRAN SUB NEWS ...

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > VIETNAM SEEKS TO BE A TOUGH ADVERSARY AGZ CHINA. TWO KILO-CLASS SUBS [SSKS] ARE HERE IN CAM RANH BAY, + ANOTHER FOUR MIGHT BE ON THEIR WAY TO CAM RANH BAY AS WELL.

* SAME > "NEREUS" DEEP SEA SUB [robotic = unmannED] "IMPLODES" 10-KM [6.2 miles] DOWN, while recc'ing the Kermadec Trench NE of New Zealand.

versus

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [Defence Radar] JAPAN TO DEPLY P-1 AIRCRAFT IN CASE OF SUB ATTACK, likely in coordination wid USN P-8 ASW aircraft.

* RUSSIA TODAY > JAPAN-BASED US DRONES [Ex-Guam based = Global Hawks] TO SPY ON CHINA, NORTH KOREA - REPORT.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-05-12 23:05|| 2014-05-12 23:05|| Front Page Top

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