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Mixture of Pressure Hull Materials Failed Titan?
Diagram of Titan's pressure hull/chamber courtesy Washington Post.--- One path of thinking about Titan's implosion (into bits) is that it happened instantly, before it hit the seafloor. This is...
View ArticleUS Reaper Variants for India, including SeaGuardians.
Gessler, on June 24, 2023, provided very interesting comments on the following: It seems India is going ahead with the purchase of 31 x MQ-9B Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) variants from the US....
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Titan Parts Already Being Retrieved: Destruction Theories
(Above and Below) Debris from Titan submersible being unloaded in St John's, Newfoundland, on June 28, 2023. (Photograph: Paul Daly/AP courtesy The Guardian)--- Large portions of Titan are being...
View ArticleNew Russian Troll Factory to help Trump Campaign
Poor Wagner leader Prigozhin has lost 3 major contracts paid for by Russia, including:- the Russia wide Internet Research Agency "Troll Factory"contract that was essential in contacting Americans with...
View ArticlePurging Progozhin's Empire: Except Africa & Catering
Subsequet to my July 2/3, 2023 article New Russian Troll Factory Helping Trump Campaign comes The Guardian's July 5, 2023 article 'He Live by the troll, he dies by the troll': Putin takes on...
View ArticleChina Warns Russia: No Nuking Ukraine
Xi's "no limits" partnership with Putin apparently has limits when it comes to the War disturbing China's European business connections and Putin threatening nuclear war against Ukraine.With regard to...
View ArticleBudget Quarantined Australian Submarine Agency Created
Mainly with the developing objective of keeping the huge AUKUS nuclear submarine budget separate from regular Australian annual defence budget measures an Australian Defence Department Media Release,...
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3 RAN Officers Graduate US Nuke Sub School
Australia's government owned ABC News, July 8, 2023 reports:"Inside 'nuke school', the elite US training ground preparing Australian submariners for an AUKUS future""By North America bureau chief Jade...
View ArticleIndia May Build 3 More Kalvari-Scorpene Subs
In a report of July 10, 2023 from India's The Print, India might be buying several French designed weapon types. This might include 3 additional Kalvari-class Scorpenes, without AIP, to be assembled at...
View ArticleAUKUS Subs Main Role Related to Nuclear War
Marine Engineer, Professor Jonathan Gates authoritative 188 page UK publication: Astute Class Nuclear Submarine: 2010 to date (Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual, 2018).On page 159 Gates indicates the most...
View ArticleOrcas/Killer Whales Damaging Yatchs
Submarine Matters now extends to submersible animals, eg. Orcas/Killer Whales.Why have Orcas recently been attacking yatchs?A short video is here and below.Longer explanations come from Popular...
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Nuclear Waste Dumps on AUKUS Nuclear Sub Program
Pete CommentAustralian governments have searched for a suitable permanent Low to Intermediate level nuclear waste dump site for 43 years (since 1980) if not longer. The many false starts with lack of...
View ArticleUS Republican Analyst: Not Enough Virginias for AUKUS
John Noonanis an American republican national security commentator and analyst. He is a former policy advisor to Republican politicians and a former USAF ICBM launch officer.In the following excerpt...
View ArticleSSHNs or XLUUVs are Australia's Submarine Future
In response to Grampa Jim's July 23, 2023 post:I think the extreme Australian and US investment in making Virginias for Australia a reality would make Australia more of an essential ally for the US....
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First Invincible Sub in Singapore: Interesting Military History
Shawn C has advised:On July 8, 2023 David Boey reported on his blog the arrival of RSS Impeccable the first Invincible-class submarine to enter Singapore waters. This was on heavy lift ship Rolldock...
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The Sensor Saturated South China Sea
The sensor sturated South China Sea (Map courtesy Wikipedia)---Ghalib Kabir on July 24, 2023, made some interesting comments on the increasing difficulty of submarines operating in the generally...
View ArticleVirginias For Australia Rightly in Trouble
Pete CommentAustralian PM Albanese's and Biden's PR campaign for Virginias the US Navy desperately needs, being sold instead to Australia (which has good reasons not to fight China) is rightly in...
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Complex Bathymetry & Subs: South China Sea
South China Sea depths (in meters). Map courtesy Silent World Foundation. --- On July 25, 2023 Anonymous commented (with some additions by Pete): The depth issues in the South China Sea (SCS) are not...
View ArticleAustralian Options Limited To Speed SSN Purchases
In response to Bill Seney's good questions of July 31, 2023:1. Limitations of UK engineering and scheduling for the SSN-AUKUS project prevent any such subs for Australia until the 2040s. The UK's only...
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Indian Aircraft on Cocos? and/or Christmas? Islands
On July 31, 2023 Gessler drew my attention to: A very interesting topic at...
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