The accident involving the American nuclear submarine USS Connecticut has been reported all over the media. It was a small accident. They did not know what the submarine hit because is was really a small accident. Could be a whale or a small ship or a floating stone in the ocean. And only a few soldiers suffered minor injuries, nothing serious at all. Everything would be fine.
After all, after 5 days or how many days, how did the nuclear submarine crawled back to Guam, no one knew about it. It was such a small matter that no one knew how it happened, where it happened. The submarine would be repaired in Guam and it would take only a few days and it would be up and snooping around in the South China Sea again.
Funny, it was reported somewhere that the repair facilities in Guam were inadequate to repair the minor damages to the submarine. And the submarine could not survive the journey across the Pacific Ocean back to the repair yards in the USA.
And there were some reports that not only 13 sailors were injured, but more than 30. And the injuries were very serious in some cases.
What really happened to the Connecticut? How many sailors were hurt and how many seriously? How many died? How long would this submarine be out of action and be laid in the repair yard in the US, if they are able to drag it home?
There seems to be a lot of questions waiting to be answered. The accident, so minor, and only 13 sailor suffered light injuries should not be anything to worry about. Is it? Who provided all the information about the Connecticut and the accident?
What do you think? How much of the news coming out from the Americans were white lies? We know they are masters of spreading white lies. Washing powder could become weapon of mass destruction. A mountain can be turned into a mole hill.
Is it so easy to bang into such a sophisticated submarine when nothing could get to within 10 km without being detected? Most cars today also can avoid accident with cameras and software embedded.
They probably hit one of their own probes which they planted in the South China Sea and is a case of shooting their own foot. Now, this cannot be revealed, right? It is a massive loss of face, own self shooting own self. If it is their own probe, how could they not know where they laid them? That is suicide. The USA is laying traps for themselves.
ReplyDeleteIt is obvious the submarine suffered quite extensive damage and had to limp to Guam for emergency repairs. It could not make the journey back to the USA for major repairs.
Hmmm, why not just dump that damaged tub in Australia?
The incident and subsequent events reveals there is more than meets the eye and less than meets the ear.
ReplyDeleteThe truth of the effect of the accident could be more serious than reported.
On the other hand, this could be the USA trying to gauge how much the Chinese really know about their submarines operating in the South China Sea. It seems the Chinese are already well aware of all that and are just keeping their cards close to their chest. At what depth the USA subs are operating, the laying of probes and sensors along the coast to detect Chinee subs leaving their base for the open sea, are all information at the finger tips of the Chinese.
Serve the warmongers right. Better to have more deaths and more injured.
ReplyDeleteIn a peaceful war they went everywhere to start wars to kill and destroy.
China's Shenzhou-13 crew Rendezvous With China's Tianhe Space Station
ReplyDeleteAccording to the China Space Agency, the three taikonauts onboard the Shenzhou-13 spaceship have entered the core module of China's Tianhe Space Station on Saturday 16 October, 2021.
After Shenzhou-13 successfully completed a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the orbiting Tianhe module, the Shenzhou-13 crew Zhai Zhigang,Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu entered the orbital capsule of Tianhe, marking the country's second crew to have entered China's Tianhe space station core cabin.
Just like everyone else when they first enter their new home, the first thing that the Shenzhou-13 crew did was to check out their sweet cozy bedrooms and connect to the Wi-Fi. A livestream video shows that Zhai, who was the first to enter, was so involved and excited to settle in that he was floating upside down in the air.
The three then set up the wireless headphones for space-Earth talks.
After a brief reporting about their safety to the ground control center, the crew have their very first lunch in their new home.
Among the three new residents, there are the country's first spacewalker Zhai Zhigang, first female taikonaut to have stepped inside its own space station Wang Yaping, and first taikonaut who was trained in an international space agency Ye Guangfu. They will stay in space for six months, double the time of the Shenzhou-12 crew.
They are expected to return to earth in April 2022, which means they will celebrate a special, unforgettable Chinese Lunar New Year in space.
They are tasked to carry out two to three extra-vehicular activities, better known as spacewalks.
Wang Yaping will participate in at least one spacewalk, becoming the first Chinese woman to achieve such a feat.
They are also expected to install transfer gears linking the big and small robotic arms and related suspension gears for future construction work.
The rendezvous and docking happened at 6:56 am on Saturday morning, six and a half hours after traveling on a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China's Gansu Province.
Docked at the bottom of the Tianhe core cabin from a radial direction, the spacecraft safely and smoothly delivered the second batch of residents to China's space station.
A combination flight has been formed, consisting of the Tianhe core cabin at the center, and Shenzhou-13 manned craft, Tianzhou-2 and Tianzhou-3 cargo craft on the side.
China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) has designed a new rendezvous path and circling flight mode to support fast-docking in the radial direction.
As beautiful as the "space waltz" was, it was a lot more difficult than the front and rear docking with the Tianhe core cabin as the Shenzhou-12, Tianzhou-2 and Tianzhou-3 missions had exercised.
For front and rear dockings, there is a 200-meter holding point for the craft, enabling them to maintain a stable attitude in orbit even when engines are not working. However, radial rendezvous does not have such a midway stopping point, and it requires continuous attitude and orbit control.
During the radial rendezvous, the spacecraft needs to turn from level flight to vertical flight with a wide range of attitude maneuvers, posing tough challenges for the "eyes" of the craft to see the target in time and ensure that the "eyes" will not be disturbed by complex lighting changes.
The success of this new docking method would be another sign of China's new space technology capabilities.
There was a report that there were a long queue for repairs of USA battleships. A period of up to 5 years. The damaged nuclear subs may need to wait for it turn. The long waits
ReplyDeletewere because many USA ship docking repair bays were leased out to private companies for up to 10 years to supplement the pentagon operating costs. Australia may be asked to accommodated the damaged subs. Maybe after repairs buy the subs as new, shortening the delivery period.
Right, this sub will probably go to Australia. The collector of defective goods like exiled convicts. The down under dump!
ReplyDeleteIt would not survive the journey. May sink half way.
ReplyDeleteWhen the damage on this sub is so severe, and the Americans dare not complain, it is likely to be self inflicted. Maybe an internal explosion of sort. Too embarrass to talk about it or blame anyone. Not even dare to show anyone a picture of the damage.
How bad is the damage? Make your guess.
The invisible hand at work. Without the need to fire a shot, one of the most powerful nuclear submarine is put out of action for months, maybe got to scrap if the damage is too severe.
ReplyDeleteSelf inflicted damage, killed by friendly fire?
What a joke!
The Americans are destined to be doomed.
One possibility, the Americans were laying mines or explosive devices in the waters around Hainan but there was a premature explosion and caused severe damage to the submarine.
ReplyDeleteHow could they tell the Chinese and the world what they were doing. So pretended that it was a minor collision and quietly slipped away leaving no evidence.
It would need a very big ship to be able to cause a dent on such a big nuclear sub. But no big ship reported such an accident. So what else could be expected to hit the sub to cause such severe damage, the Americans claimed minor, and so many casualties, probably some very serious, may even be deaths.