[HN Gopher] USS Connecticut (SSN 22) struck an object while subm...
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USS Connecticut (SSN 22) struck an object while submerged on Oct. 2
Author : executive
Score : 31 points
Date : 2021-10-07 22:17 UTC (42 minutes ago)
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| protomyth wrote:
| _USS Connecticut (SSN 22) struck an object while submerged on
| Oct. 2, while operating in international waters in the Indo-
| Pacific region._
|
| A Sea Wolf attack submarine struct something in the South China
| Sea. I get the feeling it hit another sub or some anti-sub
| defense. This is definitely a non-good event.
| executive wrote:
| Twitter says it did not hit another sub.
|
| https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1446190294693781509
| paranoidrobot wrote:
| There's a lot of shipping in that region.
|
| A lot of cargo containers are lost overboard. They don't all
| immediately sink to the bottom (sealed air, bouyant cargo, etc)
|
| What's the sonar signature of a 40 foot shipping container
| that's just floating below the surface? Are you even going to
| hear it without going active?
|
| What kind of damage does that do, if your submarine plows into
| it, even at a slow speed? My understanding is that the bow
| isn't entirely metal, that there's fiberglass (or something
| similar) where the sonar equipment is located.
| jedc wrote:
| Former Navy submarine officer here. This sucks, but it happens.
| (It happened to a boat I was on.)
|
| It could be hitting the bottom of the ocean (which nearly killed
| 130+ people on the USS San Francisco years ago -
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#Co...),
| it could be hitting another ship above it (coming to and/or
| operating at periscope depth is dangerous), or potentially
| another sub.
|
| Invariably people get fired, and whatever happens becomes a
| lesson learned that the Navy trains on in the future.
| ethbr0 wrote:
| What's the sensation inside the boat? Noise? Impact? Momentum
| change?
|
| I imagine it'd be like being on a glacier, hitting another
| glacier.
| zozin wrote:
| Some additional information.
| https://news.usni.org/2021/10/07/breaking-attack-submarine-u...
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| Looks like 11 sailors were hurt. Very interesting indeed. Some
| sort of reconnaissance buoy? Or perhaps they were traveling close
| to the bottom of the South China Sea and hit the bottom? China
| considers the South China Sea an internal lake, so they would
| think they're within their rights to mine it or otherwise defend
| it with submarine nets or booms. I imagine within the context of
| a larger conflict the PLAN would enact all sorts of submarine
| countermeasures in the South China Sea. This is why the lack of
| clarity/conflict regarding ownership of that body of water is so
| dangerous for the rest of the world.
| skunkworker wrote:
| "As for what the submarine hit, details remain limit. U.S.
| officials have reportedly said that there are no indications at
| present that the "object" was another submarine. "An official who
| requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak on
| the record said that the area's topography at the time did not
| indicate there was a land mass in front of the boat," Military
| Times reported."
|
| https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42669/one-of-the-navys...
| EastOfTruth wrote:
| maybe it hit a pipeline....
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