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Islamic Republic's (IRAN's) Latest "Smart" Submarine

2012-01-28T16:20:00.001-05:00

In August 2008 we had published Juan Caruso's cartoon (above) in response to this absurd claim: 'Smart' submarine boosts military, says Tehran. Apparently, someone in the Islamic Republic of Iran reads agrees with M.E.'s cartoonist, Juan Caruso.

On January 22, 2012 comes word that top admiralty of the Islamic Republic may have wisely considered Caruso's mockery and not only taken his suggestion under advisement, but actually produced prototypes of a ‘Smart’ Remote-Controlled Submarine. Can any submariner read all 3 paragraphs from Eurasia Review (link) without chuckling?

"The 3-Kg Phoenix is a mono-propelled propulsion system that has a fin maneuverability system, and can “can carry out surveillance for one meter,” according to ISNA."

Must be rubber-band propelled.

Submarines are always silent and strange.

How ratcheting gradually always works --- even when ONE-WAY is wrong

2012-01-26T15:10:00.002-05:00

..............................W R O N G !

Islam wields its shameless hypocrisy again, as if ill-consideration is their special birthright:

Jan. 26, 2012 (The Associated Press) - Muslims call for NYPD chief to resign

Muslim groups are calling for New York's police commissioner to step down because of his appearance in a film they say paints them in a bad light.

About 20 activists held a news conference on the steps of City Hall on Thursday and criticized Ray Kelly for giving an interview to the producers of the movie "The Third Jihad."

The movie uses dramatic footage to warn against the dangers of radical Islam. Muslim groups say it teaches Americans to be suspicious of all Muslims. ...The movie was later shown to police trainees.

How strange these American Muslim groups never asked these leaders to resign after the infamy of 9-11. More than the latest movie, their tolerance of such men as Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Anwar al-Awaki, and others may have actually "taught Americans to be suspicious of all Muslims", don't many of us believe?

M.E. urges non-PC American thinkers to advertise the The Third Jihad (movie trailer); It has been liberally panned by PC elites, the MSM, and their mignons in various chains of command. In fact, New York City's police commissioner, Ray Kelly, apologized Wednesday for his appearance in and for showing the 2008 movie to up to 1,489 trainees.

Submarines are always silent and strange.

Resetting Atomic Clocks - Submarine QOTW

2012-01-23T18:40:00.001-05:00

Casual / Automatic Reset
The government's primary Atomic Clock NIST-F1 is located in Boulder, Colorado. NIST-F1 keeps time which neither gains or loses a second in more than 100 million years. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) transmits its time to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris, France. The Bureau averages the time scales from NIST-F1 and similar standards in other major nations, and calculates an average known as the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). NIST transmits the UTC time scale via radio (e.g. station WWVB) for government, industrial and consumers. Related clocks, watches and measuring devices are programmed to interpret and calibrate to such UTC transmissions. As long as your device(s) can receive the proper radio signal, it can update exactly to your selected time zone.

Political /Manual Reset
New START (for Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) replaced the Treaty of Moscow (SORT), which was due to expire in December 2012. In terms of name, it is a follow-up to the START I treaty, which expired in December 2009, the proposed START II treaty, which never entered into force, and the START III treaty, for which negotiations were never concluded.

The U.S. and Russia are considering further nuclear arms reductions. Specifically, some Russians see advantages to GIDT2A (guaranteed irreparable damage to any aggressor).
The lateest treaty places no limits on tactical systems, such as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.

Originally, the doomsday clock represented threat of global nuclear war; since 2007, however, it has been further politicized to reflect subjective climate-change and other frightful biological attempts to cow (extortion) the public toward paying higher taxes to prevent potentially irrevocable harm.

Submarine Question of the Week:

Who is the manufacturer of most of the U.S. Naval Observatory's atomic clocks?

ANSWER: Sunday, 29 JAN 2012 (subject to any interference from this)

Submarines are always silent and strange.

Iran's submariners volunteer - for suicide - Quote of the Week

2012-01-20T16:20:00.002-05:00

19 January, 2012 - An Iranian commander has warned that Tehran is on full alert in case of enemy threats, and has the best submarines in the world ready to “ambush and hit enemy vessels, especially US Aircraft carriers, from the seabed throughout the Persian Gulf.”

Ghadir submarines are equipped with cutting edge military and technological equipment and are capable of firing Hoot supercavitating rocket torpedoes, allegedly reverse-engineered from the Russian VA-111 Shkval.

Did we mention that despite speed, Hoots betray their source, whether resting on a seabed or not. Sonar systems can easily detect cavitation, and supercavitation is fantastically noisy. Another giveaway for subs launching something that travels underwater at 223 mph is straight line motion from source to target. Our navy can pinpoint and annihilate the sources (Iran's subs) using a variety of pre-positioned sonar transponders, a triangulation algorithm (speed of light), and submarine killers.

You would be correct to guess the Hoot could still strike our aircraft carrier (its target) unless intercepted en route at a safe distance from target (more than 100 feet). With military GPS and networked communications, the proper drop point for a countermeasure (this perhaps) can also be transmitted to a defensive vessel or aircraft (at light speed).

Iranian suicide sailors will have just enough time to hear their Hoot explode and assume it damaged its target - before they are annihilated.

"IRGC soldiers and sailors are also generally expected to be more ideologically committed than regular forces and could even be used to conduct suicide attacks." -source

Submarines are always silent and strange.

NAVY JAG Disciplines Civilian Defense Lawyer

2012-01-16T17:52:00.002-05:00

A Hawaiian lawyer (civilian) with 41 years of legal experience lost his own case against the NAVY this month.

In 2006, the civilian attorney based in Honolulu represented AM1 Stewart Toles, II in a Navy general court-martial for violation of the "video voyeurism" statute. Toles was charged with secretly videotaping women on base and pleaded guilty. Toles was again represented by the civilian lawyer on appeal. In July 2006, Toles was found guilty of several offenses and sentenced to a bad conduct discharge and five years' confinement.

The attorney again represented Toles during the automatic appeal of his court-martial conviction, which was upheld on October 30, 2007, by the United States Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals. Navy officials then criticized the lawyer's defense tactics as "unsavory" and launched an inquiry into his professional conduct, according to his 2010 legal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The civilian lawyer lost his lawsuit in Washington federal court (challenging the authority of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy to discipline him) when U.S. District Senior Judge Frederick Scullin Jr. ruled that the Navy JAG office does have the power to discipline non-JAG attorneys.

The ruling sets an important legal precedent for the Navy at a crucial time in its history. The ruling should help discourage the coming lawsuits by overzealous (or greedy) civilian lawyers. The legal pendulum swung just in time to upset the diversity crowd's money wagon.

Submarines are always silent and strange.

Submarine Mystery Answers to 12 JAN 2012

2012-01-15T14:00:00.003-05:00

For more background to last week's questions go here (original post).

The westernmost islands of Iceland's Breiðafjörður archipelago number some 5 dozen with a land area around 0.4 square kilometers. The 'Sleepy Islands' were recently advertised for sale.

None of the following questions were answered last week. The islands' estimated worth is ISK 150-195 million (US $1.2-$ 1.6 million, EUR 1-1.2 million), according to realtor Sigurbjörn Friðriksson.

ANSWERS to QUESTIONS of the Week:

1) Identify the nationality or name of the big, undeveloped island shown above. ANS: “Sleepy Islands” in the Breiðafjörður fjord in ICELAND.

2) What is the islands main export? ANS: Eider duck down.

3) What kind of plant processes its main harvest? ANS: Seaweed and kelp.

4) How is the climate described by the CIA World Factbook? ANS: "Temperate; moderated by North Atlantic Current; mild, windy winters; damp, cool summers"

Submarines are always silent and strange.

Submarine Mystery Questions of the Week - 12 JAN 2012

2012-01-12T18:32:00.002-05:00

BACKGROUND-
Probably no commissioned Navy vessels have traveled the globe as far and wide as submarines have. Not as obvious, however, is the fact that due to limited opportunities for panoramic surface observations coupled with intimate knowledge of related navigation charts, few sub sailors besides those engaged in actual navigation have much lasting knowledge of coastal geography beyond their infrequent ports of call.

These small, export-producing islands are for sale (about 4,305,564 square feet) on the end of an archipelago (island chain) shown below.

QUESTIONS of the Week:

1) Identify the nationality or name of the big, undeveloped island shown above.

2) What is the islands main export?

3) What kind of plant processes its main harvest?

4) How is the climate described by the CIA World Factbook?

ANSWERS: Sunday, 15 JAN 2012.

Submarines are always silent and strange.

Partial Verification of Novel ASW Concept 4 Years Later by McDonalds

2012-01-09T16:44:00.002-05:00

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." - Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832)

2008 - Novel Approach to Anti-Submarine Warfare - AUNs

The latest ASW concept, still under wraps and unprototyped, is expected to be a quantum leap over existing ASW techniques. M.E. guessed (2008) either the U.K. or U.S. was leading this novel effort:

"The latest concept involves a combination of nanotechnology and biomolecular chemistry. Once a submerged submarine has been coated with an invisible attractant by simply traveling through a deposit place en route to somewhere predictable (e'g. homeport), the trap has been set....Up to months later, when and if the submarine visits a so-called registration region, millions of nanoscale AUNs would be attracted by the sub's invisible coating and attach chemically to its outer hull "

Apparently, the concept development has recently progressed to commercial use in the U.K.:

2012 - McDonalds to use new anti-theft spray - DNA
"McDONALD'S restaurants are fighting back against thieves by blasting suspected robbers with an invisible DNA spray as they attempt to flee.... Developed in the United Kingdom by a police officer and a chemist, the spray has been used by McDonald's outlets in Britain and Europe.... The solution is invisible to the naked eye and unique to each location. It stays on clothing for up to six months and on skin for up to two weeks."

Submarines are always silent and strange.

Quote of the Decade Redux - Unintentional Revelation of Political Secret

2012-01-04T19:55:00.005-05:00

There is no denying corporate greed is becoming as virulent as it had been before the Sherman Act (1890), The Federal Trade Commission (1914), and the Taft-Hartley Act (1947). What has been hid from the public is that lobbyists, over 90% of whom are lawyers, the U.S. Congress (40% House -60% Senate lawyers) and the legal political complex (the collegial network of all lawyers) have facilitated renewed opportunities to scalp consumers.

Federal prosecutors told a jury yesterday that exhaustive wiretap evidence proves a Wall Street titan routinely used a cadre of “corporate spies’’ ... -April 21, 2011, New York (AP) boston.com (NY Times Co.) Each side claims support from tapes in Galleon trial, Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister

What is revealing about this quotation is more than federal prosecutors intended. The quote betrays an insidious and pervasive, anti-corporate propaganda regularly fed voters by infamous liberals, influential journalists, and the lawyer-political complex .

Consider:
The claim made in the quote was made by prosecutors (lawyers). Their claim vilified corporate spies (ignoring the fact that the key spies were actually lawyers who were not employed by greedy corporations, but by law firms).

Goldfarb was accused of conspiring with ex-Galleon trader Zvi Goffer to pay tens of thousands of dollars to Arthur Cutillo and Brien Santarlas, lawyers at Boston-based Ropes & Gray LLP, for information about transactions their firm was working on.

Cutillo, Goldfarb’s former college roommate, pleaded guilty in January to charges of conspiracy and securities fraud, and faces as long as 37 months in prison. Santarlas pleaded guilty in December 2009 and is cooperating with authorities.

- Apr 21, 2011 Bloomberg, New York Lawyer Jason Goldfarb Pleads Guilty in Probe of Ex-Galleon Trader, Chris Dolmetsch and Patricia Hurtado

The Lawyer-Political complex, unharmed by its own corruptive influences, escapes scrutiny by the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (R.I.C.O.) Act. The law profession, a self-protected species in the U.S., is largely self-unregulated, and at best regulated by the whims and actions of other lawyers.

The Founders provided ample protection from such an outcome for us, should we demand it: There is no requirement for members of the Supreme Court to be lawyers.

Submarines are always silent and strange.

Submarine Time Bubbles Part 2: Backward in Time

2012-01-02T17:06:00.001-05:00

Part 1 dealt with a missed current event (a time bubble) during submerged submarine travel cut off from mundane news of the civilized world. The missed item had gone totally undetected for the following 20 years.

Part 2 describes surreal links to past events, as if one had traveled (backwards) in time ...

a) 25 DEC 2011 - Cape Cod Daily News published - Navy Lakehurst blimp veterans recall Cold War submarine hunts
USS Seawolf (SSN-575) veterans of the late 1960s sailed with Lt. Dale Hicks, formerly a BROWNSHOE in naval blimps (NAS). Dale is remembered as a very likable fellow, who made an interesting an able addition to our wardroom.

b) 8 DEC 1941 - The New York Times - Japan Wars on U.S. and Britain; Makes Sudden Attack On Hawaii; Heavy Fighting At Sea Reported
1969 Earl 'Pappy' Scholes ETC (SS) reports aboard Seawolf for his twilight (pre-retirement) cruise.
Pappy had been a young sailor stationed at Pearl on 7 Dec 1941. Afterwards, he volunteered for submarine service. He was also a very likable fellow, and an interesting addition to our goat locker.

Submarines are always silent and strange.