Posted on 02/25/2014 10:33:45 PM PST by Olog-hai
Admiral Nelson can tap it with Seaview as long as he can contain his mutinous crew.
Good for them!
We don’t speak Portuguese anyway.
At the Navy’s request, Electric Boat inserted an extension in the middle of Jimmy Carter‘s hull that added 100 feet to its standard 350-foot length — plus nearly $1 billion to the baseline $2 billion price tag. Commander Christy Hagen, a Navy spokesperson, declined to comment on the warship’s modifications.
“But Owen Cote, a submarine expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Jimmy Carter‘s hull extension most likely contains a “moon well” — a floodable chamber to allow divers, robots and machinery to move between the sub’s interior and the water, retrieving objects off the seafloor or carrying monitoring devices and other surveillance equipment.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/07/18/the-navys-underwater-eavesdropper/
Yes, seems like they should use better/more encryption instead of assuming no one will gain access to the cable.
Hilarious.
Yeah, they obviously have never heard of “Ivy Bells”.
NO, Brazil is saying they are up to something- it was Brazil that sold uranium to Iraq many years ago.
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