re: #31 LudwigVanQuixote

Two years ago a Chinese sub skipper put his scope up just to say hello in the middle of one of our aircraft carrier task groups. He had a clear shot dead astern of the carrier.

Heads rolled, but the point of a sub and a good sub skipper is you don’t know they are there. That is why we use them.

As to the launch, the footage from Lawhawk’s post, shows a clear arced trajectory. From miles away, where the footage was taken, it is physically impossible for something straight and horizontal to look like that from 30-35 miles away. Such a report, that it actually some trick of perspective - might be possible from a cropped still frame, that does not show the whole contrail, but with the actual footage, this quickly becomes is utter BS.

[Link: lawhawk.blogspot.com…]

Was that sub in international waters? Did we know it was there?

LVQ, I just imagine that was a foreign vessel. We would have sunk it.

As I noted on teh earlier thread, I believe the launch was a scientific package, new tech test, test on behalf of foreign government, test for foreign government (as in sales pitch) and so on.

I also believe that some idiot XO launched before checking the radar for air traffic, not unlike that sub that surfaced onto a Japanese trainer fishing trawler a few years back.