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Originally Posted by leon
Never heard of them, let alone seen them, must keep an eye out for them some nights, sounds like a good view.
Leon
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If it is the three I'm thinking of I first saw them, or something exactly like them, late in 1996. And, not only do they fly in formation, but I swear on a stack of Norton's, and so would my friend who also saw them, that they can change course as well! And we saw them change course, by about five degrees! Had us gob smacked for hours, and the following weeks!
Found out a little about them since. The story goes that the US navy owns the trio, and they are apparently used for tracking submarines with some cute water penetrating long wave length radar. And because there is three of them they do their own trig calculations to determine the depth of the submarine. Pretty neat hey! Sort of like active GPS you don't want!
Reason being, some of the newer Russian Subs are constructed entirely of titanium, with vibration dampened twin hulls, and with several feet of nice and stealthy radar and sound blocking acoustic tiles all over them. They also are capable of running at depths of over 900m. Which apparently makes them damn hard to find by conventional methods, as they aren't magnetic, don't make much noise, and absorb active sonar like a sponge.
While I'm at it rumors are that because the Russian subs have a nuclear power station that would be happy to provide electricity to a city of several hundred thousand proliteriat, hooked up solely to a BIG electric motor (read MEGAWATTS), these subs are capable of speeds in excess of 160 KMH at depths of nearly a kilometer. I might also add, that rumor also has it that the Russian sub Kursk was sunk in a collision with a US sub because the Kursk had on board the next generation of Russian ROCKET POWERED HYDRASONIC CAVITAION BUBBLE TORPEDOS, capable of speeds in excess of 500KMH: UNDERWATER!
And that's why just weeks after the Kursk sunk mysteriously the US government gave the Russians BILLIONS OF DOLLARS of aid!
Cheap really, compared to the Reds going to war to get their stollen torpedos back!
