HOLY SHIT PEOPLE : 4 NORTH KOREAN SUBS MISSING SOUTH KOREA ON ALERT

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Hmm...

wow

Not really relevant to this thread.

You are talking about the YUGO class that was used prior to the Sang-O:


Name: Sang-O
Operators: Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Preceded by: Yugo class
Subclasses: attack version, infiltration/reconnaissance version
In commission: 1980s?
Completed: 36?
Active: 32 (August 2006)
Lost: 1 captured by South Korea, possibly more
General characteristics (armed version)
Type: Submarine
Displacement: 370 tons (submerged)
Length: 34m
Beam: 3.8m
Propulsion: Diesel-electric: 1 small diesel, 1 electric motor, 1 shaft
Speed: 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h) surfaced
7 knots (13 km/h) snorkeling
9 knots (17 km/h) submerged
Range: 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km)
Test depth: 150 metres, capable of bottoming
Capacity: 0 (10/11 in recce version)
Complement: 15 crew
Sensors and
processing systems: Radar
civilian Furuno I-band radar
Passive RWR/ESM/SIGINT
Golf Ball radar
Snoop Plate radar
Sonar
Trout Cheek sonar
Armament: Two 21 inches (530 mm) torpedo tubes fitted with Russian 53-65KE torpedoes
capable of minelaying
Notes: Fitted with a snorkel

There is news reported in South Korea that we do not have in western news sources. My contacts there tell me that the ship that was "torpedoed" by a North Korean submarine was actually participating in a joint military exercise with American and South Korean vessels that were in close proximity.

When the wreckage was found, they dredged up a rusty piece of equipment that was claimed to be a North Korean torpedo. It was completed rusted and in pieces, yet, there was fresh magic marker on it claiming it was #1 in a North Korean style.

South Korean media and people jokingly are saying that the North Koreans have the world's greatest magic marker that does not disintegrate in sea water or rust.

Also, there is fear in Seoul that the North will attack the city with 25 million people living in and around it with missiles that can easily reach their targets. People there are panicking. The situation is escalating.

The US is bound by treaty to defend South Korea in an attack. Japan has stated the same intention. It is going to get messy there very soon.

If they start a war then they will instantly reduce that starving population by tens of millions in a matter of days. Easiest way to reduce starvation is to reduce the number of people starving. What quicker way than war? And on top of that Kim Jong can claim this as his great stand against the West before he passes.

I also found the folowing parts of this information interesting:

Name: Sang-O
Operators: Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Preceded by: Yugo class
Subclasses: attack version, infiltration/reconnaissance version
In commission: 1980s?
Completed: 36?
Active: 32 (August 2006)
Lost: 1 captured by South Korea, possibly more
General characteristics (armed version)
Type: Submarine
Displacement: 370 tons (submerged)
Length: 34m
Beam: 3.8m
Propulsion: Diesel-electric: 1 small diesel, 1 electric motor, 1 shaft
Speed: 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h) surfaced
7 knots (13 km/h) snorkeling
9 knots (17 km/h) submerged
Range: 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km)
Test depth: 150 metres, capable of bottoming
Capacity: 0 (10/11 in recce version)
Complement: 15 crew Sensors and
processing systems: Radar
civilian Furuno I-band radar
Passive RWR/ESM/SIGINT
Golf Ball radar
Snoop Plate radar
Sonar
Trout Cheek sonar
Armament: Two 21 inches (530 mm) torpedo tubes fitted with Russian 53-65KE torpedoes
capable of minelaying Notes: Fitted with a snorkel

I know, but maybe it is. The timing is interesting for such a statement.

53-65 torpedo
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The 53-65 torpedo family are Russian made, wake-homing torpedoes designed to destroy surface ships. The 53-65 became operational in 1965, while the 53-65K and 53-65M both became operational in 1969. The 53-65KE is an exported version. They are members of the Type 53 torpedos. China received an unknown number of 53-65KE torpedoes from Russia after purchasing 4 Kilo class submarines in the 1990s.
[edit] Specifications
Primary function: High explosive torpedo for sinking surface ships
Power plant:
53-65 and 53-65M: Kerosene-hydrogen peroxide turbine
53-65K: Kerosene-oxygen turbine
Length: 23.6 ft (7.2 m)
Weight: 4,563 lb–4,630 lb (2,070 kg–2,300 kg)
Diameter: 21 in (533 mm)
Range:
53-65: 18,000 metres (20,000 yd)
53-65K: 19,000 metres (21,000 yd)
53-65M: 22,000 metres (24,000 yd)
Speed:
53-65 and 53-65K: 45 kt (52 mi/h, 83 km/h)
53-65M: 44 kt (51 mi/h, 81 km/h)
Guidance system: Wake-homing
Warhead: 661 lb (300 kg) high explosive
Operational since:
53-65: 1965
53-65K and 53-65M: 1969
Instead of using active or passive homing as other torpedoes do, the 53-65 torpedoes use wake homing, which, upon finding the wake of a ship, turns to follow the wake to guide itself to the ship. The torpedoes have no way of telling which way the target ship is headed when they reach the wake, so they aren't as effective as other means of homing. To date, there have been no reports of a countermeasure that can confuse these torpedoes, making them very successful when they do home on to a ship.

The Royal Navy's fascination with Trimaran vessels, with trimaran hulls at one time even being proposed for its new aircraft carriers, may be in part due to the desire to reduce the wake of their ships and their vulnerability to wake homing torpedoes.[citation needed]

call Rambo

First of all, the subs are off the west coast of California. Hell they may be parked just outside of the San Pedro Harbor and underneath the Golden Gate Bridge.

And here is what will happen...

As in times past, someday we will either be reading about some now declassified report that we came within mere seconds of armed conflict, were it not for some pure stroke of luck.

Or, we will not get lucky this time, and some shit-for-brains general, colonel, or even a captain will get panicky and pull the trigger launching a massive war that will only be stopped by a desperate call from all the uninvolved nations, or which will escalate quickly into total warfare.

Nope, if nothing else it'll just piss em' off more.

I'm sure they are allowed to have their own exercises as well people

Guys, I am intrigued by this.

The NK subs cannot even USE German torpedos.....They are fitted to fire the RUSSIAN ones that were sold to CHINA.....

The "official report" ays a NK "STYLE" torpedo.

So we know China bought an unspecified number of torpedoes from Russia in the 90s.

We know that NK Sang-O Class subs CANNOT fire GERMAN torpedoes.


The more I dig the more fishy it gets. I am beginning to believe NK.

I think the USA should get out of the country and let them war it out.

you don't get it right???

They only can start a war now, no other choice! Watch the news! They don't get any supplies,food,oil now! They closed it all!

They will start a war and end it with all of their nukes on tokio,seoul,hawaii...

End

alert watchcon may be raised very soon


read

danger will robinson

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from a few days ago 2010


The minister commented about the "Watchcon" level being reviewed at the moment, after holding a session with a group of foreign journalists at the ministry to explain the results of a multinational investigation that concluded a North Korean mini submarine had fired a heavy torpedo at the 1,200-ton Cheonan in March, killing 46 sailors.

North Korea denied any involvement and called the investigation´s outcome a fabrication, warning it would wage an "all-out war" if Seoul takes any countermeasures against Pyongyang.

There are five levels of Watchcon, intensifying the degree and frequency of intelligence gathering and analysis each time it is raised. South Korea is currently on Watchcon-3. Watchcon-2 would signify a vital threat. It would be the fifth time that South Korea and the U.S. have done so, with the last level elevation in May 2009 when North Korea conducted its second nuclear test.

But the South Korean Navy is already on its highest alert near the contested Yellow Sea border with the North, where the Cheonan was attacked and sank.

South Korea is now in the process of determining how to react to the provocation. One step was the emergency meeting of the National Security Council (NSC), which was held by President Lee Myung-bak on Friday morning. The NSC is the highest-level presidential advisory body which includes the most important ministers and convened for the fist time since last years nuclear test by N. Korea

There's OIL in dem North Korean Hills!!!!!!!!!

DR STRANGELOVE

watchcon was raised today to 2

maybe our satelite can guide them into the gulf.

There was some Obama government guy on MSM last night talking about more sanctions against NK. Come on man, grow some BALLS!

yes according to s.korean official - Yonhap

Yonhap in Korean means, "Run to Pusan!"

russain troops in usa now


read and watch 2 days ago...

[link to theintelhub.com]

not real

The amount of BS and idiocy in these threads is staggering, even by GLP standards lol.