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French sub unaware it rammed Royal Navy vessel in mid-Atlantic nuclear crash
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Posted on 02/16/2009 8:11:43 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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the odds of this happening..........
To: Sub-Driver
the odds of this happening.......... ...must be close to the odds of two 747's colliding on the ground.
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:15:35 AM PST
by
SeeSharp
To: Sub-Driver
French sub unaware it rammed Royal Navy vessel in mid-Atlantic nuclear crashThe captain was a little old lady who spent the entire cruise with her left turn signal on.
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:18:13 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(This disaster brought to you by the failed Obama administration.)
To: SeeSharp
the odds of this happening.......... ...must be close to the odds of two 747's colliding on the ground. More like the odds of two 747's colliding and not knowing it happened.
Pure nonsense.
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:18:36 AM PST
by
evad
(.!.)
To: Sub-Driver
Captain Clouseau, “ Did you feel a Boomp” You mean a bump? “Oui a Boomp”
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:19:13 AM PST
by
dblshot
To: Sub-Driver
It tells you there must be finite areas where the missles reach intended tarets and you can hide.
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:19:22 AM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
To: Sub-Driver
The Captain was probably talking on his cellphone.
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:21:04 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Dissent Is Patriotic!)
To: Slings and Arrows
. . . LOL . . .
and cursing a blue streak about the romance novel she was reading?
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:24:26 AM PST
by
Quix
(LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: Sub-Driver; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ...
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:25:01 AM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: reagan_fanatic
searching quietly for underwater truffles?
Trying to find where they’d stashed those cases of rare wine?
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:25:48 AM PST
by
Quix
(LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: Sub-Driver
As we used to say at SUBLANT, “Ah, the old ‘I-must-have-hit-a-submerged-shipping-container’ excuse.”
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:27:40 AM PST
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
To: MeanWestTexan
I’d hate to have to calculate those odds. Numbers of subs, go and no go areas in the seas, depths (maximum depth unknown) and probably a whole other list of variables i can’t think of.
I do think we can rule out everyplace above sea level.
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:28:30 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: MeanWestTexan
It tells you there must be finite areas where the missles reach intended tarets and you can hide.
Generally, Boomers hide in deployment "boxes" - but those should be large enough to make this kind of a collision a high-odds proposition. More likely the SSBNs for the French and Royal Navies use the same underwater locations for fixing their positions based on geographic landmarks. So in this case the boomers went to those locations to get their fixes ... at the same time.
To: Sub-Driver
Once upon a time when I was a crewmember of a US Navy destroyer, the only submarine I specifically remember that my ship “sank” in a war game was a French one.
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:28:55 AM PST
by
squidly
To: SeeSharp
So don’t let the Brits and French have subs, and don’t let the Dutch and Americans have 747s. Problem solved.
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:31:02 AM PST
by
Trod Upon
(The Left killed my country.)
To: evad; SeeSharp; Sub-Driver
More like the odds of two 747's colliding and not knowing it happened. Pure nonsense. Read the article. The French were well aware that they had git something. They just didn't know what. The only way that you would know is if you heard it before or after the crash. As its sonar dome was damaged, that leaves only the before part.
A better question would perhaps be to ask how the British knew what they hit, but didn't avoid it.
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:31:39 AM PST
by
SampleMan
(I'm not drinking the kool aid! Is it 2013 yet?)
To: Sub-Driver
Three words.
Hit and run.
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:34:16 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
To: SampleMan
It was the french who did the hitting, not the british.
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:37:49 AM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: Sub-Driver
Subs play cat and mouse all the time. The surprise here is that two boomers (SSBN) did it. Usually, attack boats (SSN) do it.
To: SeeSharp
Captaine de Vasseau Clouseau had no comment.
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posted on
02/16/2009 8:40:27 AM PST
by
GAB-1955
(Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven!)
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