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Topic started on 15-2-2009 @ 07:48 PM by Schaden

Unthinkable - British and French Nuclear Submarines collide


www.thesun.co.uk
BRITISH and French nuclear submarines which collided deep under the Atlantic could have sunk or released deadly radioactivity, it emerged last night.

The Royal Navy’s HMS Vanguard and the French Navy’s Le Triomphant are both nuclear powered and were carrying nuke missiles.

Between them they had around 250 sailors on board.

A senior Navy source said: “The potential consequences are unthinkable. It’s very unlikely there would have been a nuclear explosion.
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reply posted on 15-2-2009 @ 09:33 PM by Lasheic
reply to post by whoshotJR


Er, actually - yes it is. It's designed to ensure the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction. Even if you sneak attack my countries missile silos, I have nuclear-armed subs which carry ICBMs hidden in the -VAST- oceans of the world ready to strike back against you with enough vengeance to visit as much destruction on you as you did to me. Good luck finding them.

It's a nuclear deterrent, basically, which is for the time being completely indefensible against.


reply posted on 15-2-2009 @ 10:11 PM by LatentElement
reply to post by wolf241e



Yes, they have sonar but if you're thinking the "PING" that you see in movies - that's not it. That's "Active Sonar" and when used it also pinpoints your location too.
Boomers (Nuclear Missile Subs) are the frakken huge boats that use passive sonar with "ears" on the ship itself, "towed arrays" and remote sensors that are either dropped in real time or the permanent arrays (that are not officially there) already placed in major sea lanes around the world. There is no wave emitted. More like an undersea microphone, but way more sophisticated using algorithms and previously stored "footprints" of sea life and known enemy vessels.

Fast attack subs are the smaller "hunter/seekers" trying to vector and neutralize Ballistic Missile subs.

Niall117 - I'm sure the Brits rang up their US liaison and the USN put a boomer already in the European Theater in place to cover it's patrol.

For those to boomer's to even be close enough to hear each other would be weird, let alone a fender bender (Or, should that be 'diving plane" bender?)

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