SA submarine outwits NATO

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Atlantic Ocean - A lone South African submarine has left some North Atlantic Treaty Organisation commanders with red faces on Tuesday as it "sank" all the ships of the Nato Maritime Group engaged in exercises with the SA Navy off the Cape Coast.

The S101 - or the SAS Manthatisi - not only evaded detection by a joint NATO and SA Navy search party, comprising several ships combing the search area with radar and sonar; it also sank all the ships in the fleet taking part.

Several times during the exercise that lasted throughout Monday night and Tuesday morning a red square lit up the screens where the surface ships thought the submarine was, but it remained elusive.

This gave Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota something to brag about when he landed on the SAS Amatola to speak to the media on Tuesday.

"To be able to frustrate detection by NATO nations is no mean achievement; it speaks of the excellence of the equipment we required for this purpose."

And while this left one of the world's strongest military alliances frustrated, it was also a sign that the group had a capable partner in Africa, Lekota said.
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Well done guys/gals

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Awesome! Are they sure the sub went out at all and that it wasn't a diver with a laser paint gun? ;)
 
Not often you hear something good about SA....

... actually... now that I think about it, wasn't corruption involved with theses subs?
 
xrapidx said:
Not often you hear something good about SA....

... actually... now that I think about it, wasn't corruption involved with theses subs?
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Yeah - however, we should not take something away from the sailors because of stoopid ANC thieves.
 
McSack said:
Apparantly the subs were suuuucchh a good buy that sailors were not necessary :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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lol - I am also sure he meant "acquired" rather than "required" - that would make the sentence a bit better.
 
Albereth said:
Them little diesel electic jobs are hard to find.
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hehe - however, it makes virtually no difference how adequate or inadequate the vessel is that sinks you.

A bit like rushing a nuclear power plant with a stone axe - if you manage to destroy it, who cares if you only had an axe?
 
Moederloos said:
hehe - however, it makes virtually no difference how adequate or inadequate the vessel is that sinks you.

A bit like rushing a nuclear power plant with a stone axe - if you manage to destroy it, who cares if you only had an axe?
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You'd get nuked... so no one would even know you had an axe!
 
Now that’s why we paid tens of millions of rands. To get one over our previous colonial oppressors. Viva
 
I had the opportunity of boarding one of those little subs.

I must say, they are quite impressive, if very cramped. I don't think I could live in one for any length of time.

Anyway, well done to our sailors.
 
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