mdh
Sr. Member
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 210
I watched an episode of JAG recently where an evil Russian ex-Soviet sub commander - egged on by an even more evil Islamic terrorist - were using an Iranian ex-Soviet submarine to attack a US carrier battle group in the Persian Gulf - one of the tactics was to settle on the bottom beside a sunken oil tanker thereby fooling the sonar. This of course was after being chased by a US nuclear sub in which the crafty evil Russian sub commander suddenly dove his boat straight down at the tanker (not marked on US charts you see) and then, pursued wildly and impetuously by the naive US sub commander, pulls up just above the wreck. The US sub, not realizing the wreck is there, pulls out just in time, and misses the wreck by inches, but still needs to do an emergency surface (they then cut to that classic sequence of the Poseidon Class sub breaking the surface like a porpoise which is run every time I see a documentary about modern subs). Who would have guessed that being a JAG lawyer would be that much fun?