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2010-06-07 China-Japan-Koreas

S. Korea, U.S. Scale Down Response to Cheonan Sinking

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Posted by Steve White 2010-06-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Bambi ~~bowed~~ blinked.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-06-07 00:44|| 2010-06-07 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, it's not like the Norks simply murdered forty some people in what would normally be considered an act of war. Uhhh, no, on second thought, it is *exactly* like that.

Posted by SteveS 2010-06-07 01:03|| 2010-06-07 01:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Wussies.
Reagan would have found a way to arm the Taiwanese, punish NKOR and give China a way to save face all at the same time.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-06-07 03:53|| 2010-06-07 03:53|| Front Page Top

#4 But Bambi had a party to go to!

A man's got to have his priorities!

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-06-07 08:36|| 2010-06-07 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Something is odd about this whole deal. I gather that just 75 miles away from the sinking, the US and SKor were conducting Asub operations.

To make matters more interesting, while it was officially stated that the Cheonan was sunk with a heavy torpedo, it has been proposed that it was instead sunk with a much more modern supercavitating torpedo.

Russia provided Iran with such advanced torpedoes, on the assumption they couldn't reverse engineer them, but allegedly they did. And they, Iran, might have in turn sold them to NKor.

According to James G. Zumwalt(*), son of the Admiral, there was tremendous interest around the world to see how a supercavitating torpedo knock-off would perform against a modern warship. This is because it is believed there is no effective defense against them.

Which would keep the US Navy away from the territory of any nation that possesses them. Which might explain why both Iran and NKor are increasingly bold.

(*) Not to be confused with diplomat James P. Zumwalt. James G. is all USMC and a combat vet.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-07 10:03|| 2010-06-07 10:03|| Front Page Top

#6 come on just sink Nork sub already. What's the worst that can happen?

Posted by HammerHead 2010-06-07 20:34|| 2010-06-07 20:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Supercavitating torpedoes are very cool but the parts recovered are from a typical counter rotating prop shaft used by torpedoes since forever. Someone suggesting the use of a supercavitating torp might be trying to link to the US ships nearby. A plot by US or SK or a friendly fire incident would pull the NK feet from the fire.
Torpedoes are noisy enough but the supercavitating torp is outrageously loud and detectable. All types I have read about have no terminal guidance and are fired down a bearing at the target. The weapon is referred to as an engagement breaker. Fire in the direction of target and run as fast as ever you can in the opposite direction. Lack of guidance means the preferred warhead is a small nuke.

Posted by Dogsbody 2010-06-07 21:49|| 2010-06-07 21:49|| Front Page Top

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