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Subject: ROKN Patrol Corvette sucken by DPRK torpedo boat
YelliChink    3/26/2010 12:10:07 PM
Just happened 2150 Korean local time. Chinese reports say that it was DPRK torpedo boat. The ROKN corvette sunk is probably a 1200t PCC. I can't read Korean so I am not sure which one exactly. At this moment, 59 out of 104 crew have been saved so far. Best wishes to the still missing ones and condolence to families of lost sailors.
 
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gf0012-aust       4/14/2010 11:13:01 PM

The secondary point being that casing is presumably needed to classify a torpedo to a known weapon in the NK inventory? or do you think this is already evident from what is already known?
 

I'm of the view that you wouldn't exclude something just because its not on a publicly available inventory

UK, US, USSR and France all used to sleight of hand on equipment during the halcyon days of the cold war....


 
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SantaClaws       4/15/2010 12:14:30 AM
I don't think anyone really serious wants a war. If they do they have no idea what they are getting into or have a very distorted/glorified perspective of what war is like. South Korean civilian casualties would be enormous. What I do hope for is that the South Koreans look at this incident without the blinders on and that changes how they interact with their neighbor to the North. No more free hand outs in the hopes that the NK government is going to simply roll over and die for reunification.
 
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SantaClaws       4/15/2010 12:19:44 AM
War should be the last options for SK and if they do go forward with that plan they would need to evacuate Seoul because that would be leveled within hours of a full scale conflict. The North Koreans would probably know what's up because evacuating a city that large isn't going to go unnoticed. However, I do agree if they decide on that then they should strike first and initiate the war on their terms.
 
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Hamilcar    Bit of a gumshoe?    4/15/2010 12:31:58 AM
Yes I am. And that is all I have to say on that subject.
 
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DarthAmerica       4/15/2010 1:08:12 AM




The secondary point being that casing is presumably needed to classify a torpedo to a known weapon in the NK inventory? or do you think this is already evident from what is already known?

 

I'm of the view that you wouldn't exclude something just because its not on a publicly available inventory

UK, US, USSR and France all used to sleight of hand on equipment during the halcyon days of the cold war....



A point I stressed earlier for hopefully obvious reasons now.
-DA
 
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Hamilcar    Is that so?   4/15/2010 1:15:06 AM
Poster of the Titannic hypothesis, and "expert" on matters naval?
 
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DarthAmerica       4/15/2010 1:20:18 AM

Poster of the Titannic hypothesis, and "expert" on matters naval?

H.
 

I never posted a Titanic hypothesis liar. That was an example to another person who asked what else besides a torpedo could break a ship in half.

-DA 
 
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DarthAmerica    Yes it's so...   4/15/2010 1:25:07 AM
DarthAmerica       3/28/2010 5:42:37 PM


OK, mines with torpedoes as payload. Do the N. Koreans possess any of these? No. 

 LOL no? Are you sure? Because I'm sure you are not. North Korea's mine inventories are extensive and the types of mines they have are not known to the general public. It's well within North Korea's technological capability to develop a weapon such as this. Include China, South Korea and the USA(CAPTOR or the old MK 31). So even IF you insist on a torpedo, what fired it and to whom did it belong is not known to the public. Another reason not to speculate and assign blame without facts.
 
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Hamilcar       4/15/2010 1:41:36 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/mNdSdNHANxg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"> http://www.youtube.com/v/mNdSdNHANxg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385">

 
DarthAmerica       4/1/2010 10:09:05 AM

http://www.youtube.com/v/Qn4FS-O96y4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"> http://www.youtube.com/v/Qn4FS-O96y4&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385">


 
There is something curious in this comparative example for the rest of us. That was a Mark 48 against a Spruance class. Those are tough ships, so that should serve as a rough force gauge of effects seen..
 
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PS. You make it easy, Gixxer, you know that?
 
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SantaClaws       4/15/2010 8:43:26 AM
Do you even understand what's going on?
 
The Titanic took hours to break in half due to slow flooding.
 
That Spruance was instantly separated because it broke under its own weight. The two are not comparable.
 
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