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minus-squareORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·24 days ago A distress signal followed on December 23. Spanish rescue units responded and found the ship heavily tilted. The captain claimed mechanical failure, but hull damage showed signs of an external strike consistent with a supercavitating torpedo. Spy shit? War shit? Both shit?
minus-squarececilkorik@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·24 days agoAs far as I’m concerned for Russia: “Eat shit.” Don’t care who did it or why, other than to give them a round of applause and buy them a beer.
minus-squareclucose@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·24 days agoSo, somebody knows about those ships and is capable of sinking them. Why are not more sunk?
minus-squareSourGumGum@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·24 days agoUkraine’s trying https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-strikes-russia-shadow-fleet-tanker-in-mediterranean-for-the-first-time/
minus-squarebarnacul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·24 days agoRussia is the only country with supercavitating torpedoes. However, the damage they cause wouldn’t be any different than a conventional torpedo.
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·23 days agoYeah I don’t see how the blast damage would indicate the torpedoes propulsion type. Which makes me question the rest of the details.
Spy shit? War shit? Both shit?
As far as I’m concerned for Russia: “Eat shit.”
Don’t care who did it or why, other than to give them a round of applause and buy them a beer.
Good shit.
So, somebody knows about those ships and is capable of sinking them. Why are not more sunk?
Ukraine’s trying
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-strikes-russia-shadow-fleet-tanker-in-mediterranean-for-the-first-time/
Russia is the only country with supercavitating torpedoes. However, the damage they cause wouldn’t be any different than a conventional torpedo.
Yeah I don’t see how the blast damage would indicate the torpedoes propulsion type. Which makes me question the rest of the details.