Apparently they just do that sometimes.
That poor ship fell out a window
Very sad, always from same suite too.
Old news
Unfortunately paywalled. Is this a delayed report on the one which was hit by a supercavating torpedo off the coast of Spain a few months ago or is this another sunk russian ship with reactors bound for North Korea’s submarine program?
It is about the ship, which was sunk off the coast of Spain. However the supercavating torpedo thing is not really proven to my knowledge. It would be very interesting, as Ukraine does not have that technology.
South k does, they 100% intercepted that. To cock block NK from geting those reactors.
CNN did a video recently about the one off Spain in the last couple of days. This is probably that one.
Depends on whether you consider December 23, 2024 “a few months ago”.
deleted by creator
I hope it was Orcas.
they have war bears, giant squids, dolphins, and now orcas.
The orcas have only been going after small sailboats (the kind small enough for a middle-class family to afford, if they own it instead of a house and live aboard full-time). They aren’t the class conscious anti-oligarch crusaders everybody wants them to be.
The phrases “middle class family” and “live aboard full-time” do not sit well with me.
I know a couple who both cashed in all their retirement to buy a boat and sail from place to place; their kids are ‘home schooled’ on the boat. they are not rich by any stretch, but they’re living their dream. not my idea of fun but, eh? the husband now just does odd marine jobs to keep their house floating. I respect their desire to live their way.
imagine how impressive the orcas that did this are.
we should give the orcas torpedoes… and a list of targets lol
Root cause analysis determined that the reason for the incident was that it was a ship built in Russia.
The front fell off!
Since it’s a Russian ship, I’d like to point out that that is very typical.
Is something like that very typical?
Idk for other ships but their aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov became a meme for always being down for maintenance and/or on fire
Those ship attacking killer whales are now a nuclear super power.
killer whales with nuclear powered lasers.
The going to add lasers
Whatever the cause of the initial blast was, Russia definitely scuttled the ship rather than have anyone else know what it was carrying.
Oddly, the bottom of the ocean is a pretty good place to store a nuclear reactor. Which is lucky because Russia already had several of them down there and there are two American nuke subs on permanent patrol.
It’s hardly going to be fuelled
Actually the ocean contains billions of tons of uranium
Let me just leave this here:
South Korea’s ADD showcases new Supercavitating Torpedo at MADEX 2025
ADD said that the development of this supercavitating torpedo is currently about two-thirds complete, and that after further maturing the torpedo’s stabilization control technology, it will finally secure the design and testing technology of the test body.
…The MRXUUV (Mission Reconfigurable eXtra-large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) currently under development by ADD could serve as testbed.
According to an interview with the ADD chief researcher, the supercavitating torpedo displayed at MADEX 2025 is an actual tested torpedo, designed in size to fit in a UUV, capable of being guided (in the initial phase of the launch, at low speed), and is being developed to sink enemy main surface ships with ultra-high-speed kinetic energy without a warhead.
The publicly released timeline doesn’t line up, but the motivations do.
I think a limpet mine is a far more likely explanation, why risk such a heavily classified piece of technology falling into enemy hands?
To prevent the literal unpredictable madman neighbour with a mortal vendetta against you from getting a nuclear reactor.
Also, Russia already has super cavitating torpedoes, and there’s not necessarily that much to learn from their pieces after impact.
Not saying a limpet mine isn’t likely, but this also feels like exactly why SK is developing those torpedoes.
What would a South Korean torpedo two-thirds of the way through development today have anything to do with a Russian ship sinking off the coast of Spain a year and a half ago?
I’d wager this was Ukraine’s handiwork using conventional or drone weapons.
- the article is a year old, so those statements were made at least a year ago, 2) militaries aren’t always super up front about their weapons programs timelines 3) the statement specifically said that even though it was “2/3” of the way through development, it had been tested. How do you know this wasn’t the test?
It could have been Ukraine, but Ukraine does not have super cavitating torpedoes, so if that’s the case the reporting on those and the shape charges must be wrong.
What makes you think supercavitating torpedoes are involved at all?
The reactors were bound for North Korean subs. The Spanish claimed evidence of asupercavating torpedo strike.
MRXUUV is a comically terrible acronym. Why even bother using the “x” from “extra” if you’re going to make an acronym that reads like a silicon valley pyramid scheme?
Maybe it makes more sense to a first language Korean speaker/reader and we’re too English language to get it?
Lots of maybes in this headline
What an unfortunate thing to happen on free eggs night.
Is that old news or did it happen again?
must be greenpeace, move along nothing to see here
(also it’s old news atp)
