A number of sailors on board the USS Connecticut were injured in the accident, the officials said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, according to a statement from US Pacific Fleet. It's unclear what the Seawolf-class submarine may have hit while it was submerged.
-WiscoDave
The Seawolfs (only three) are supposed to have the best sensor suite in the world. I hope the incompetence routinely displayed by the surface fleet has not spread to our subs.
ReplyDeleteAs long as the sonar operator could properly identify 96 different genders...
DeleteMaybe it was unintentionally intentional. Hopefully the Chinese sub that was doggin the Connecticut is at the bottom of the S.China Sea.
DeleteNemo
Yup.
DeleteThis had to be negligence in the same way as running a surface ship aground is.
ReplyDeleteUnless a Chinese sub that was tailing them hit them.
DeleteAfter reading the other comments, that is the most probable explanation. Blaming the captain of the sub, is a lot easier politically than blaming the chicoms
DeleteI guarantee that no chinese sub was tracking a seawolf class sub unless it wanted to be tracked. Our sub probably hit one of theirs or a submerged container or an uncharted sea mountain.
DeleteI wasn't thinking incompetance but maybe disinformation to cover up an incident with the chicoms
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly when I first read about it.
DeleteWoman driver.
DeleteBC, asian driver.
DeleteBeing a Navy veteran and former sub crewman, what I've heard is basically what you're reading. I believe you're spot on regarding disinformation.
DeleteDo the Chi-Com's have an equivalent to the old Soviet "Crazy Ivan" maneuver?
ReplyDeleteSure we do, lound-eye! We have Crazy Biden. We just always turn Left.
DeleteRed October?
ReplyDeleteFunny though, the Chinese have no such "accidents" when patrolling close to our shores. Ohio Guy
ReplyDeleteIn 1968, 4 completely unrelated subs were lost. https://paulkiser.com/2018/01/07/1968-mystery-four-subs-lost-four-months/
ReplyDeleteThe lack of info on sub collisions is to be expected. I highly doubt that the collision was from a poorly trained or inept crew, USN sub crews are the best there are on the planet, with the best equipment.
Even the best run into things: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/what-happens-when-us-navy-submarine-hits-underwater-mountain-166703 (very interesting pics of the bow damage), and RIP to the single death of a sailor in this instance.
In contrast, some navies are far less prepared to operate in this environment:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/hatch-left-open-nearly-sunk-3-billion-dollar-indian-nuclear-submarine-63027
Submarine operations are unforgiving of error.
I would have liked being a fly on the wall during that debriefing.
ReplyDeleteDWC-driving while Chinese.
ReplyDelete"There's no such thing as an accident. Only premeditated carelessness." Dave Gardner
ReplyDeleteNot enough info in the story to tell anything. Could have been a cargo container...
ReplyDeleteGive the sophistication of the Navy's equipment, I'm betting what they hit was a USO that was cloaked.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of uncharted objects under the water out there. Could have hit a seamount. Subs generally run with passive sonar...listening only. A seamount makes no noise. To "see" a sub needs to use active sonar, which tells anyone listening exactly where they are. So subs rarely use active sonar. It's also possible the ChiComs are planting obstacles their subs know about but nobody else is aware of for just this reason.
ReplyDeleteJust found this regarding the E.T. USO possibility:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2021/10/did-chinese-sub-or-alien-craft-hit-us.html
I think it was one of those damn plastic straws that are going to destroy mankind.
ReplyDeleteSome Chicom sub just got one up the ass! Submariners have a strange sense of humor. Sending a "shadowing" enemy back to base with a wrecked prop is one way of demonstrating that you really do what's happening.
ReplyDeleteThe captains name....Bill Clinton. Yup false story.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many of the thousands of shipping containers lost at sea remain floating in the water column at neutral buoyancy under water for years…
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