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2021-10-21 15:11
The US nuclear submarine collided in the South China Sea and "hit-and-run", which made people "laugh generously". But this is not the first time that a US submarine has had a "traffic accident", nor is it the first "hit-and-run", and today we will pick up the history of the "capsizing" of the US submarine.
1963 The Longtail Shark sinks
On April 10, 1963, the American ace nuclear submarine "Longtail Shark" was wrecked, which was the most serious accident in the history of American submarines.
At that time, the "Longtail Shark" had just completed an overhaul, accompanied by the rescue ship "Skylark", went to sea for a deep diving test of more than 300 meters.
Deep diving test, has a considerable danger, the deeper the dive, the greater the pressure on the hull, there is a piece of steel plate unqualified, a weld problem, it is possible to destroy the boat.
When the "Longtail" dived to about 250 meters, it informed the surface of the water about "small difficulties", and the "Skylark" sonar soldiers soon heard sounds similar to the rupture of the watertight cabin and the rupture of the submarine. Big deal! The Skylark swam back and forth on the water and threw grenades as a signal to get the submarine out of the water, but the sonar soldiers' headphones were only rustling noises, and they never received an answer from the deep sea.
In this way, the "Longtail Shark" disappeared into the deep sea with 129 soldiers on board, and the 22 nuclear missiles on the submarine were missing, and the consequences of a nuclear leak were unimaginable. After several months of searching, the US military finally found the wreckage of the "longtail shark" at the bottom of the sea of more than 2500 meters, which looked like it had passed through the "shredder" and was fragmented.
The findings suggest that the cause of the accident may have been a pipeline failure. When the engine compartment was flooded, the seawater slurry shut down the nuclear reactor, so the submarine accelerated and sank, squeezed by the pressure of the seawater.
The lesson was so profound that the U.S. military launched the subsafe program, which required all nuclear submarines to be inspected, inspected, and rechecked, but this did not prevent the tragedy from happening again.
1968 Scorpio sinks
In 1968, another U.S. nuclear submarine, the Scorpion, sank.
A year before the accident, the Scorpion was also overhauled. According to the "Submarine Safety" program, the overhaul time is 36 months and the submarine must be subjected to strict safety inspections.
However, in 1967, it was a fierce Cold War period, the US military was anxious to let the "Scorpion" return to work as soon as possible, and actually reduced some of the maintenance projects, and the cost of the last maintenance was only one-seventh of that of other nuclear submarines, so the quality of the maintenance can be imagined.
On 16 May, Scorpio ended its deployment in the Mediterranean and departed for its home port of Norfolk.
On May 21, the Scorpion sent a signal for the last time, and has not been heard from since. Six days later, the Scorpion did not arrive in Norfolk as planned, and the U.S. Navy learned that things were not going well.
After a few months of painstaking searching, the US military found the wreckage of the Scorpion on the seabed 3,000 meters southwest of the Azores, the hull of the ship had been broken into two pieces, part of the capsule was "shattered to the ground", and 99 crew members had long been buried on the seabed.
Why did the Scorpion mysteriously sink? Some investigations believe that the accident was caused by the accidental activation of the torpedo or the overheating explosion of the torpedo, and some analysts believe that the battery inside the submarine exploded and blew through the hull.
But it was also suggested that the submarine had been sunk by the Soviet Union. American journalist Ophely investigated the Scorpion for more than twenty years and proposed this hypothesis in the book Scorpion Down.
You know, 1968 can be described as a "disaster year" in the history of submarines, and various accidents occur frequently. In March of that year, the Soviet submarine K-129 exploded and sank, killing all 98 people on board. Some believe that the United States is suspected of sinking K-129, so the Soviet Union sank the Scorpion to take revenge.
There seems to be some logic to this statement. The "Scorpion" was missing for 6 days, and the US military actually realized that it was unreasonable, and this detail could not withstand scrutiny. Moreover, the United States has always been like this, even if it grasps the accident situation, it will not disclose it, and it will become a historical unsolved case, and this is also the case in the South China Sea accident.
In short, the "sinking theory" is not officially recognized. Judging from the official records, there are indeed few firepower attacks between the nuclear submarines of the United States and the Soviet Union and the United States and Russia, and more are "cats and mice" between the two sides, and "accidental collisions" occur.
The United States, the Soviet Union, the United States and Russia "collided"
For example, in 1970, the US nuclear submarine "Longtouyu" collided with the Soviet "Echo-2" class nuclear submarine K-108. At that time, the "Longhead Fish" was collecting intelligence near the Soviet Naval Base and tracking the K-108 at close range, resulting in the two submarines colliding underwater, and the "Longhead Fish" that was damaged by the collision fled into the wilderness.
In 1992, the U.S. military Baton Rouge lurked near the kola peninsula military port in northwestern Russia and secretly tracked a Russian Serra-class nuclear submarine. As a result, an accident occurred, the Russian submarine suddenly hit the "Baton Rouge" from below, hitting the "Baton Rouge" and almost sinking, and finally had to be retired early.
The accident also triggered diplomatic friction between the United States and Russia at the time, and then-US Secretary of State Baker had to assure Yeltsin that the United States would reduce espionage in Russian waters.
Historically, the "collision" between the United States and the Soviet Union and the United States and Russia has occurred many times, and two things can be seen from them: First, don't look at the US military's usual "flaunting its might," it seems that those who dare to "strike" are still "fighting nations." Second, the US military has always engaged in espionage activities in front of other people's homes, and it is still himself who has been injured.
US submarine "hit-and-run" and "see death and can't be saved"
In the event of a "collision" accident, the "fighting nation" did not lose, but Japan was not so lucky.
In April 1981, the Japanese cargo ship Ilsei Maru was sailing at sea when there was a loud noise and the bottom of the ship was hit by an unidentified submarine.
What is even more surprising is that this submarine did not stop checking at all, but hurriedly sank and disappeared into the sea!
The cargo ship collided with the submarine, which was certainly impossible, and the "Sunrise Maru" sank after just 15 minutes. At the last moment, 13 crew members climbed onto the life raft and 2 crew members were unfortunately killed.
Shortly after the accident, a U.S. P-3C anti-submarine patrol aircraft flew in the air. The crew thought they were going to be saved, because everyone was wearing obvious orange life jackets, so the patrol plane circled around, did not save anyone, and flew away. In the end, the crew was rescued by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
This incident once caused tension in US-Japan relations, and Japan asked the US side to explain what the US military was doing at a distance of 20 nautical miles from Japan's territorial waters. And why "hit-and-run" and "see death and not save"? The first question, of course, the US side is "no comment", and the second question, the US side said "I'm sorry, I didn't see it clearly, I thought the cargo ship was fine."
Coincidentally, in 2001, the American nuclear submarine hit the Japanese ship again.
At that time, the US nuclear submarine "Greenville" conducted a floating exercise in the southern waters of the Hawaiian island of Oahu, and as soon as it floated, it sank the Japanese fishing boat "Ehime", resulting in the death of 9 Japanese. Afterwards, the captain of the Greenville said he was fully responsible for the accident.
But interestingly, the U.S. Navy said after the investigation that there was no need for a full court-martial trial. The final result is that the captain is forced to retire early, but not "disgraced" to leave Oh, it is honorable discharge to retire and enjoy a full pension!
There are many accidents in US submarines, hitting fish, hitting mountains, and bumping into their own people
In fact, there are many accidents in american nuclear submarines, and they collide in various ways, not only hitting others, but also hitting fish, hitting mountains, and hitting their own people.
In 1959, the American nuclear submarine "Sea Dragon" hit a whale during the sea test, killing the fish on the spot, and the submarine's thruster was also damaged.
In 2005, the USs San Francisco nuclear submarine hit the undersea mountains head-on at a speed of 30 nautical miles per hour, injuring more than 60 people and killing 1. The main reason for the accident was that the submarine used the old navigation chart, the map did not show the mountain, and the soldiers were eating and playing, and no one noticed that the submarine was driving too fast.
In 2016, the USS Louisiana nuclear submarine crashed into a national supply ship that was routinely operating, and both were injured.
The above mention is only the "tip of the iceberg" in the US submarine accident, and all kinds of large and small accidents and strange operations cannot be said for a while and a half.
We can only say one thing: many unrighteous deeds will kill themselves! The US submarines are always "bumping and bumping," is it a technical mistake, or is it not strictly managed, or is it caused by too much espionage and likes to stir up trouble? The United States knows best in its own heart!