Old articles can be very important. What is someone telling us?

RenegadeSon
User ID: 1021816
United States
7/1/2010 4:18 PM

Em requested update on chinese asset movement 3 hours ago

There was a Chinese tanker in the Gulf a few days ago. I have lost the link to the shipping info. Maybe someone can take a look? BTW how can we tell where submarines are?
Quoting: childoflight

Congrats on the Av.. and ..oh by the way.. I'm an old sub sailor from the cold war days, and the whole point is to remain hidden, so, you are not supposed to know where any subs are.




Housedad
User ID: 1003657
United States
7/1/2010 6:07 PM

Your welcome. My time was spent on SSBN's patrolling the North Atlantic.. Not much to tell.. pretty boring (wink). The real stories are from the fast attack guys. They actively engage foreign subs all the time in a cat and mouse sort of game.
Quoting: RenegadeSon

Cat and mouse. Nice way of putting it.

1975- Virgina beach. I saw a fast attack off in the distancewith a badly damaged (almost ripped off) conning tower. I had berthed a bit before and they had let the crew off just then. I asked a guy that was coming off what the hell happened to the tower?

He said "Nothing. it's fine. Nothing happened. NOTHING." Saying this as his eyes bore right though me.

They sure had some interesting times under the ice pack.



Anonymous Coward
User ID: 1021808
United States
7/1/2010 7:18 PM

"Late 70's Russian sonar. Close in, REAL close. Named because it sounded like hitting 2 blocks of wood together. Heard just before an Russian torpedo was launched. Basically if you heard it you were dead. Heard it once in the med. Late 70's. Russian fucking with us. Right behind the ssbn 658."