I am baffled (as most will be) as to how two highly trained naval submarine captains – one, Royal Navy, the other French Navy – managed to crash their submarines into each other, with advanced technology at their disposal, in the middle of the Atlantic, a huge ocean. Captain Bligh would not have been amused…. It is like something out Carry on Submarining,
The Independent reports that the submarines had enough nuclear material on board for 1248 Hiroshima bombs.
The good news though is… that stealth technology is clearly improving. ”
The Independent reports: “Naval experts, who underlined that the two nuclear submarines were built with hulls designed to withstand huge pressures, expressed surprise that the sonar arrays of both had failed to detect either vessel. Sonar technology is now so sophisticated manufacturers boast it can recognise a small fish. That it does not seem to have been able to pick out a submarine nearly the length of two football pitches and the height of a three-storey building could be explained by the development of stealth technology, making the submarines less visible to other vessels.”
I heard it compared to two flies flying into each other in a football stadium……
I mean ..whats all that about ?
Mennard – I think the key here is the surreal quality of these two, otherwise unbelievable, events!! ( Dali had a handle on this).
Glad the head of the navy reported that the British sub had “not been compromised” ……. truly surreal!
Charon – good day to you!
Look forward to being “skyped”.
Sounds like a rushed excuse to me
BAE Manager :”Why the fevk does this sonar we tricked HMG into paying £50 billion not even notice a massive great nuke carrying submarine!”
BAE Engineer: “Because we spent the cash on booze and hookers for some Saudi Princes and just stuck a carboard box with a tv ariel on the front of the sub”
BAE Manage :”Arms companies do not go round telling the truth! If they find out those aircraft carriers are made of paper mache and potatoe peelings we’re all fevked! make something up!”
BAE Engineer: “Err cause it was painted black and nobody thought to put a window in the sub so the could see where they were going?”
BAE Manager: “Not even Geoff Hoon would buy that one!”
BAE Engineer : “Errr some bollocks about stealth technology that has the dowside of basically saying the french could sneak up and nuke us into the stone age and we’d never find them?”
BAE Manger : “Seriously, that’s the best we can do? 30k we start graduates on so we get the best and all we can give a press release on is some made up bollocks about stealth bomber paint being used on giant submarines? Alright, well it’ll have to do. People are too pissed off today about not being able to photograph the rozzers anyway to pay much attention to impending nuclear apocalypse”
I rather think they the two submarines were involved in some sort of game / exercise which went wrong. The fact that both submarines just happened to be travelling slowly is far too suspicious. Personally I reckon they were travelling slowly after having put the brakes on realising their little game / exercise was going rather pete tong.
@rehoused – I think you’re right. The game was “chicken”.
Rehoused / Simon….
Gentlemen… an excellent solution to the vexed question of the week!