Originally published at: New Chinese nuclear sub sinks before leaving dock - Boing Boing
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It’s supposed to sink. It’s a submarine.
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Sinking at the dock happened to a boat a friend was on-adjusting the trim with front and back hatches open, it took on rather a lot of water.
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There are some controversies. Some military enthusiasts have pointed out that this shipyard does not build nuclear submarines, but rather submarines with diesel-electric engines.
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A failure? No! The sub carried out a totally successful submergence, way ahead of schedule!
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“woah woah woah! Nothing was in MY job description about making it go back UP.”
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It’s just a “Rapid Unscheduled Submerging” /S
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Any ship can be a submarine… once.
Pretty embarrassing for China. I bet they will try to salvage it and bring it back up.
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“It’s under the water. What are you complaining about?”
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Make it an honorary member of the Black Sea Fleet.
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Here’s what the satellite missed
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I’m so glad to see the valorous people of China so earnestly uphold one of the most cherished Swedish traditions.
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You checked during your six years in China?
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More parallel acronyms would be “Rapid Unscheduled Descent” or “Rapid Unscheduled Dive”.
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That is an amazing ship and and an amazing history!
Rich powerful people, amirite?
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Is this at least going to give us a new Wuhan matter for conspiracy theorists to never goddamn drop for several years?
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Shouldn’t have bought it from Temu.
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