RN Sub run aground
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"Aside from attack capabilities, it is able to sit in waters off the coast undetected, listening to mobile phone conversations..."
Sounds like money well spent!
Sounds like money well spent!
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No, it couldn't tow them off but it could use its radar to locate them and then it could use its radios to relay their position to the tug......Shame we binned the 4 then.!!!!
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No doubt in the bar, drinking an Astute coktail......rum based and on the rocks 
They don't like it up them
On a more serious note hopefully this rudder incident will not be too serious.
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Speaking to the BBC last month, HMS Astute's commanding officer, Commander Andy Coles, said:
Speaking to the BBC last month, HMS Astute's Ex commanding officer, Commander Andy Coles, said:
No, it couldn't tow them off but it could use its radar to locate them and then it could use its radios to relay their position to the tug......Shame we binned the 4 then.!!!!
No we know why MRA4 was sacrificed though:
3000 nautical miles on the sonar!!!!
The submarine can carry a mix of up to 38 Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes and Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise missiles, able to target enemy submarines, surface ships and land targets, while its sonar system has a range of 3,000 nautical miles.
"I bet they will wish the RAF had an MRA.4 next time it happens if they run aground out at sea."
Is that even possible? Is running aground at sea not an oxymoron? Surely, to run aground you have to be in the vicinity of the coast.
Just a thought....
Is that even possible? Is running aground at sea not an oxymoron? Surely, to run aground you have to be in the vicinity of the coast.
Just a thought....
'Near the ground' as in by the coast? Surely, the 'ground' in the middle of the sea is called the sea bed, and if a submarine were to end up stuck on the sea bed I would suggest that it had sunk rather than 'run aground'.
I'm not going to die in a ditch over this, just putting it out there...
I'm not going to die in a ditch over this, just putting it out there...
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In theory, passive sonar can detect an interesting noise from the other side of the world, if the interesting noise is loud enough of course. The real problem is all the other uninteresting noises that tend to interfere with the interesting noise. I'm sure that someone will claim that the wonders of modern technologygytechnolo will permit the filtering of the uninteresting noises.
