[Flipside]

Hmmmm... Never knew anyone died in that, that's a pity. The reports we had here said that there were no casualties

[InfernoGod]

And if that's what an SRed does to your hull, you'd be ****ed if it was a BFRed. That concludes today's lesson.

[WMCoolmon]

I wouldn't want to be on sonar duty when that happened.

[Rictor]

Sandwich, you don't know the half of it. My alternative picture was C'thulhu, so don't even start...

[Corsair]

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[Turnsky]

i think, they're very lucky it didn't go the way of the kursk.

[NGTM-1R]

Not really. Damage control practice is something the US Navy is religious about. Not so the Russians.

Somebody's career is over though.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by ngtm1r
Not really. Damage control practice is something the US Navy is religious about. Not so the Russians.

Somebody's career is over though.

well, either way, they're very lucky it didn't get any worse than it is.

[pyro-manic]

Um, the Kursk had a torpedo explode in the forward compartment. That's a bit more severe than this...

Oh, and while I'm at it, what the hell is a "Long Ton"??

[Flipside]

I thought the current thinking for the Kursk was that it had a fire which worked it's way into the Torpedo bays and that's what set them off. I think it was most of the payload that actually blew. It was mechanical failure that downed the Kursk, not human error.

A long ton is 'over a ton', I can't remember where the phrase came from, but it's sort of like a Bakers' Dozen (13).

[karajorma]

I believe it's a imperial vs metric ton thing.

The Kursk sank cause of the idiocy of using hyrogen peroxide as a torpedo propellant and not wondering what might happen if the stuff happened to leak out onto the metal fittings in the torpedo.

[Flipside]

That was it, it was a leaking or old torpedo that hadn't been maintained properly that caused it.

[Unknown Target]

There's nots of hteoriesa about the Kursk, including that it was an experimental torpedo using supercavitation technology, that went haywire and blew up.

Fact is, I doubt that anything will happen more than an honorable discharge. If it wasn't on the maps, then there was nothing they could do. They were on operations, and as such, run silent. Silent does not include actively making noise so that everyone around you knows where you are. Passive sonar only picks up noise, so unless that mountain was erupting, there would be no way of seeing where it was.

[Turnsky]

i reckon that the US Navy will now have to figure out an easier way to navigate the seabed without using active sonar.