Dead Sailors Stopped A 'Planetary Catastrophe' Aboard A Secret Submarine

[MechAg94]

https://start.att.net/news/read/article/business_insider-dead_sailors_saved_a_submarine_fire_from_being_a_p-newscred2/category/news
Dead Sailors Stopped A 'Planetary Catastrophe' Aboard A Secret Submarine, A Top Russian Naval Officer Said At Their Funeral
I stumbled across this link yesterday.  Looks like the Russians saved the planet.  I guess their won't be a movie since it was classified.

A top Russian naval officer said the 14 Russian sailors who died in a fire aboard a secretive Russian submarine last week sacrificed themselves to prevent a "catastrophe" on a planetary scale, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing Russian media reports.

"The Russians talk about these ships in this program doing bathymetric research and deep-ocean research, meaning they do stuff on the sea floor," Bryan Clark, a former US Navy officer and a submarine-warfare expert, told INSIDER. "If they are doing research on the sea floor with a military submarine, they are probably also able to interdict or disrupt undersea cabling or other undersea infrastructure, like pipelines."

He added that subs like this could also be used to install, remove, or disrupt seabed sonar arrays, either strengthening Russia's defenses or crippling someone else's undersea capabilities.

Interesting.

[MillCreek]

Sounds like their equivalent of the USS Parche, in terms of tapping or interdicting underwater communication cables.

[BobR]

"The Russians talk about these ships in this program doing bathymetric research and deep-ocean research, meaning they do stuff on the sea floor," Bryan Clark, a former US Navy officer and a submarine-warfare expert, told INSIDER. "If they are doing research on the sea floor with a military submarine, they are probably also able to interdict or disrupt undersea cabling or other undersea infrastructure, like pipelines."

He added that subs like this could also be used to install, remove, or disrupt seabed sonar arrays, either strengthening Russia's defenses or crippling someone else's undersea capabilities.

I always figured if we could do it so could they. As a bonus for their side they really didn't care how many of their personnel died while learning to do things like that IMO.

bob

[WLJ]

I'm starting to think that the words Russian and reactor should never be in the same sentence

[RoadKingLarry]

Long ago and far away...

https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/dp/1610393589/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HWB8I3IJY1RO&keywords=blind+mans+bluff+the+untold+story+of+american+submarine+espionage&qid=1562713999&s=gateway&sprefix=blind+mans%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-1

Anyone that tells you The Cold War "ended" is either lying to you or just plain ignorant.

[MechAg94]

Long ago and far away...

https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/dp/1610393589/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HWB8I3IJY1RO&keywords=blind+mans+bluff+the+untold+story+of+american+submarine+espionage&qid=1562713999&s=gateway&sprefix=blind+mans%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-1

Anyone that tells you The Cold War "ended" is either lying to you or just plain ignorant.

Just because countries are spying on one another doesn't make it a cold war.  That is really just normal.

[Perd Hapley]

Anyone that tells you The Cold War "ended" is either lying to you or just plain ignorant.

The 1980s want their foreign policy back, Governor.

[TommyGunn]

Just because countries are spying on one another doesn't make it a cold war.  That is really just normal.

Pretty much this.  Israel has spied on us ....we've spied on them.  England too.  S.O.P.