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Sputnik: Chinese Think Tank Triangulates Spot Where US Sub Likely Collided With Mystery Object
Last Thursday, the US Pacific Fleet reported that 11 Navy seamen received minor to moderate injuries after their nuclear attack sub struck an unknown object while submerged and operating in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region on 2 October. US media later clarified that the incident took place in the highly sensitive South China Sea.
A Beijing-based think tank believes it’s honed in on the approximate area where the USS Connecticut bumped into a mystery object during operations in the South China Sea earlier this month.
Speaking to the Chinese language edition of the Global Times newspaper, Hu Bo, director of the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCSPI), said the think tank used satellite data to determine that the sub was likely to have had its accident southeast of China’s Hainan Island and north of the Paracel/Xisha Islands in the Hainan-Paracel-Bashi Channel triangle.
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WNU editor: As for the USS Connecticut, a damage assessment is underway .... Assessment of Damaged Attack Boat USS Connecticut Begins in Guam (USNI News).
Update: Apparently the bow was heavily damaged .... Bow of U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Submarine “Seriously” Damaged in South China Sea Collision Incident (Defense World).
7 comments:
Underwater landslides happen all the time. Small underwater mountains appear at the base of bigger ones. Mapping doesn't catch it. But sonar should have caught it. Running silent?
Maybe the crash is for the same reason our DDG skippers frequently steer their ships into the path of freighters.
Probably hit a rock outcropping or something. Somebody is losing their license.
Probably a collision with a Chinese submarine. That’s why the Chinese know the location of the collision
Jwp,
I think the same. This is an act of war, but happening when Joe is sleeping, which is 23:30/7.
Crazy Ivan?
I recall a news report a day or two before the accident that highlights that the Chinese nuclear ballistic submarines were crap basically.
I think that a damaged PLAAN submarine would be too juicy a propaganda piece for the Chins to pass up.
“Act of war , invasion of territory, outrageous provocation”, etc.
It probably ran aground.
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