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2007-05-04 Europe

Submarines in the Baltic: Underwater hide-and-seek

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Posted by mrp 2007-05-04 07:53|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anybody seen the new book on the Scorpion disaster yet? I just saw it at Barnes & Noble, but didn't pick it up. The jacket cover says the authors say the Scorpion was destroyed by a Soviet submarine and the USN knew it from the start.

There was a fiction novel many years ago that contended hat 4 subs were lost in 1968 as part of a secret NATO/USSR submarine war. Good stuff.

It wouldn't really surprise me a whole lot if there was a lot of underwater skullduggery going on all over the world. The book Blind Man's Bluff revealed a lot of the USN's work against the Soviets during the Cold War and is also a good read.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-05-04 15:10|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-05-04 15:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks for the story, mrp. A really good read.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2007-05-04 18:46|| 2007-05-04 18:46|| Front Page Top

#3 FOTSGreg-

The suggestion that Scorpion was lost dueling with a Soviet sub has been around for a while, but it's been pretty much debunked. The evidence from the wreck and SOSUS clearly show that Scorpion was alone when - most likely - either a torpedo cooked off inside the ship, or they were able to get said torpedo into the water, but it came back at them.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-05-04 19:00|| 2007-05-04 19:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Tried to dump a hot running torpedo.

That said it does kinda fit in with the second shooter theory. I've also noticed that crop circles started about that time. Coincidence? Ima report, you 'en are crazy.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-05-04 19:22|| 2007-05-04 19:22|| Front Page Top

#5 A skeleton was reportedly found outside a sunken Soviet boomer sub lost in the 1960's, a sub wid a Rogue Soviet captain aboard whom wanted to start a nuke war agz the USA by unilaterally firing his missles. Elements within the Soviet sub crew deliberately destroyed and sank their own sub by preventing the missles from leaving the ship after ignition. MTV > WWIII: DESTRUCTION OF THE BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA [Pearl Harbor - Ben Affleck]> THE THEME FROM "TITANIC" [Celine Dion] + "PERFECT STORM". Celine + Mariah Carey is in love wid a dead man Keanu Reeves, ala MATRIX - D *** nged pinko Liberal Asteroids + Planet X's!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-05-04 21:27|| 2007-05-04 21:27|| Front Page Top

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