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Barbarian at the Gate |
Example I don't understand. I've seen about half a dozen of these articles over the past year and this does not include the articles about the damaged USS Connecticut . Am I missing something? Is not this type of information supposed to be top secret, you know, "silent service" and wanting to keep their operations hidden so as to be an effective deterrent, strategy, and tactic? They also are including pictures of the subs. They might as well give guided tours to spies. “Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.” ― John Adams "Fire can be our friend; whether it's toasting marshmallows, or raining down on Charlie." - Principal Skinner. | ||
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Coin Sniper |
Seems like if this is a PR visit where it is surfaced and is taking on members of the UK military for tours keeping it secret is sort of moot isn't it? Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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Once they surface and pull into a major port - news gets out pretty fast - especially among parties interested in where our subs are. You can try for total OpSec, but unless you stay submerged the entire deployment, it's challenging. We once pulled into Adak, in the winter...ah a special slice of hell...and were told to have no identifying items (hats/coats with subs name, etc). The Chief on the tug said "Hey I know that boat, I used to be in Mare Island". So much for OpSec. | |||
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Run Silent Run Deep |
Yeah, it’s kinda hard to miss a sub pulling into any port with a giant number painted on the side. But go out and submerge…gone. _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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Little ray of sunshine |
Yeah . . . no. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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I'm pretty sure that parties really interested in the location of our subs have higher-tech solutions than relying on the media. | |||
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Optimistic Cynic |
When I was supporting a seismic research organization, they were required to submit all undersea recordings to the Navy for screening before they were entered into the massive public database of seismic recordings. Nothing was said about this to me, but I assumed at the time that the data removed could be interpreted to reveal locations of mobile underwater objects, both ours and theirs. Of course, just the presence of blanks in the record could be almost as revealing as the traces themselves. I tried to discuss my conjectures with the manager for that program with little acknowledgement, but no doubt there are others who might have noted the same thing. So, in effect, this information has been available for decades to the cognoscenti at least. This looks more like some form of gunboat diplomacy where the administration wants to goad opponents into some form of action or inaction. Of course, we all know the level of stiffness in the backbone of our CiC, and that any threat he might offer is an empty one. | |||
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Pretty much this. That Sub goes under, good luck finding it. ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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I could not find a reference image, but there was a time when US subs were at military docks and the building in which the submarine was docked had to be shorter than the length of the sub, so that satellites could see the boomer. It was for treaty verification. ------- Trying to simplify my life... | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Once a submarine breaks the surface, it’s pretty much bare assed nekid to the world via satellites. But, yes, I’ve always thought SSBNs only pop up officially at their home ports. It’s been a long time since I’ve worked in a submarine shipyard and maybe I’m mixing it up with some Tom Clancy novel but when subs finally leave the yard, they got surface escorts to mask their signatures until they get to open waters. And these were just SSNS. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Run Silent Run Deep |
Yeah, that’s a firm “no”…there are no “escorts”. Just tugs till open water in the port, then underway on your own…at maneuvering Watch until open water…then dive…set watch station…go to Zulu…hit the rack. _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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SIGforum Official Eye Doc |
Been a long time since our subs had hull numbers on them. | |||
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The SSGN have become a highly valued chess piece that the combatant commanders all fight over, next to aircraft carriers, those SSGN's are in high demand. Back in the 80-90's when the USN was a fit fighting force, there were plenty of surface ships, particularly cruisers that could carry the large magazine of missiles that these SSGN's can carry. With nearly half the Ticonderoga-class cruisers decommissioned today and rapidly shrinking over the next five years, there's a lot less weapons going out to sea, which means the visible presence and deterrence mission that surface ships are inherently good at, is now being forced upon the submarine force due to the lack of hulls in the water. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
The tug boats was what I had in mind as escorts. It’s not like we had destroyers or frigates or CGNs hanging around the shipyard for that purpose. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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This sounds like a Trident SSBN, not the SSGNs that carry lots of cruise missiles. https://www.businessinsider.co...-israel-gaza-2023-11 If the administration expects this to frighten Iran, they will be disappointed. | |||
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Serenity now! |
With the news about the subs and the carrier groups in the region, they're sending a message to Iran. That's all this is. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice. ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ | |||
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186,000 miles per second. It's the law. |
Warning to Hezbollah. | |||
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Its an SSGN. DoD and USN rarely, if ever publicize the position of a nuclear strategic asset like a SSBN outside of its home port, foreign port calls are rarity, even at strategic home-away like Fastlane. | |||
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Member |
Loose lips… I remember Geraldo Rivera embedded during the Gulf War giving very sensitive information during his reporting, and it was stopped, thank GOD! Yes, we’re in the Information Age, but we REALLY need to protect the system that protects us! Retired Texas Lawman | |||
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As Extraordinary as Everyone Else |
I thought that at least one sub was assigned to each Carrier task group so news that one is in the Med with 2 Carriers there doesn’t seem like much news to me. ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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