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San Juan submarine: 'Explosion' detected in hunt for Argentine vessel
The Argentine navy says an event consistent with an explosion was recorded near where a submarine disappeared last week with 44 crew on board. An "abnormal, singular, short, violent, non-nuclear event" had been detected in the south Atlantic, a spokesman said. The information came from an Austria-based anti-nuclear test watchdog, Capt Balbi said. It follows a report of a loud noise in the same area.
The ARA San Juan disappeared last Wednesday. More than a dozen countries including Russia and the US have sent assistance.
The new information was provided to the Argentine navy on Thursday by the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Capt Balbi said. In a statement, the CTBTO said two of its hydro-acoustic stations had detected a signal from an "underwater impulsive event".
Also at NYT, CNN, and The Guardian.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday November 25 2017, @08:58AM
But this was a German built sub from a not horrible design [wikipedia.org] by a competent shipyard, and based on designs used by the German Navy itself. It wasn't a crap design. Only two were built.
The reason for this disaster is probably piss poor maintenance, not a bad design. Losing your main batteries, probably to an explosion, in a submerged boat is seldom expected to be survivable.
Add to that uneducated farm boys with little training drafted into a Navy that still fancies itself as bad asses even though they got their asses kicked and their ships sunk in the Falklands Fiasco by a small force from 8000 miles away operating at the very end of their tether.
Why does Argentina have or need Subs? Pure adventurism? Dreams of avenging the General Belgrano?
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