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2010-04-30 China-Japan-Koreas

How Nork Heavy Torpedo Could Have Sunk Cheonan

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Posted by Steve White 2010-04-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 If they can be spotted on active radar, perhaps a decoy with a magnetic field could be launched to pull the torpedo off target.

Posted by gorb 2010-04-30 00:33|| 2010-04-30 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Passive sonar is the only detection for a torpedo, gorb...besides that, degaussing is a practice most navies engage.
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I'd bet it was a contact mine or deliberate attack. The type of torpedo is purely speculative at this point. In theory, they should find evidence of a torpedo on the sea bed...a mine would leave very little discernable debris sans shrapnel.

Posted by logi_cal 2010-04-30 07:56|| 2010-04-30 07:56|| Front Page Top

#3
There's that 'bubble jet' crap again.
It was an explosion, under water. It made a massive, violent, destructive 'bubble' that was not aimed or focused. No 'jets' were involved.

You know, BOOM. Like a conventional torpedo or mine.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-04-30 08:02|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-04-30 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Uh, uh, 1980's MTV RAP > THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO B-U-U-U-R-P"???

Gut nuthin.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-30 18:31|| 2010-04-30 18:31|| Front Page Top

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