Posted on 12/16/2017 1:32:35 PM PST by Jarhead9297
“BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina fired the head of its navy a month after a submarine disappeared in the South Atlantic with 44 crew members onboard, a government spokesman said on Saturday.”
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Looks like the German designs have proven defective. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3614253/posts
Should be good for the French and Swedish salesmen.
Will the sub be found near the Falklands?
Truthfully, the head of the Navy should immediately order all other submarines to port, and that they then get inspected from top to bottom. Firing him is a waste unless he refuses to do this.
In the months before the Soviet Union collapsed, they lost four submarines in two months to what is believed to have been the same defective part. The US regularly grounds all of its aircraft of a given type when it loses one for unknown reasons.
But their naval commander is likely not only blameless in this, but the one person best suited to quickly locate and correct the problem.
Sad situation our “allies” are in these days. Post WWII we decided to front end all these countries and they went socialist taking care of their own.
I agree and the ones that should lose their jobs are the politicians who probably underfunded the mere maintenance of the fleet let alone ever upgrading it
Depends on the definition of ‘near’.
Do something stupid or incompetent and you’re fired. Sounds reasonable to me. My personal experience watching government agencies is that they shuffle their failures around like the old pea under the shell game, until the entire system is inept.
I hate everything and everyone, and I like it!
Prayers for the 44
“Truthfully, the head of the Navy should immediately order all other submarines to port”
the sub that sank was the only operational one. Argentina has only one other sub, but it’s not operational.
Truth be told, a 3rd world country like Argentina has no business trying to operate submarines in the first place.
The Argies are still smarting from the Falklands War, which convinced them how essential it is to have submarines.
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