SA submarine outwits NATO

Wonder if they have any funds left over for when we actually need the sub for real work?
From what I hear, our army / airforce is a bit under funded. Broken down equipment is all over the place, as they don't have the people or money to fix it.
 
Anyone got more information on this exercise? What type of sub was it, what support did it have and what type of ships was it up against?
 
Moederloos said:
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Of course our success in an exercise like this is a far harder pill to swallow for those damn imperialists than say them seeing us spend those million on houses, infrastructure and the upliftment of our [-]previously advantaged[/-] currently advantaged people. That would prove to them we can do it on our own and don't need them as overlords and perhaps rivaling them in the future. Nah rather get one over them with one our new fancy subs in a training exercise :cool:.

Of course it goes to show how capable this subs is and justify it's expense. Imagine the results against those pesky pirates on our coast or peace keeping missions in some banana republic if this is anything to go by.

Enough laughing at our imbecile government and say well done to the submariners. After all no matter how capable the sub isit comes down to them in the end
 
afaik, we've always had a strong navy. We have to, we're almost completely surrounded by ocean!

I noticed some unusual activity along the coast few days ago... wondered what it was.
 
icyrus said:
Anyone got more information on this exercise? What type of sub was it, what support did it have and what type of ships was it up against?
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The sub:
http://www.navy.mil.za/archive/0708/070830_MANTHATISI/article.htm
NATO:
http://www.navy.mil.za/archive/0708/070829_NATO/article.htm
http://www.navy.mil.za/archive/0708/070829_NATO/SNMG1 Africa.pdf

I know that during the cold war, our navy shadowed the Soviet fleet around the Cape, in fact there was a fair amount of hype at the time in the Argus about the Soviets rounding the Cape, (late 70's or early 80's,) very tense times in those days.
Tried to find links to it but no luck so far, if i do , will post it.
 
This doesn't surprise me and as far as I know this isn't the first time the SA Navy has outwitted a much stronger opponent in training exercises. They previously did it with our old subs. Now those things were cramped. These new ones are spacious in comparison.
 
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.
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Small electric subs are the hardest to detect especially in the 'pretend' atmosphere of an 'exercise.'

If this was "real" any nato fleet would have its own sub hunters (in this case not.) Sub was up against surface ships (and not other subs specifically tasked with sub hunting.) Also any electric boat has to run near the surface at some time; not deep and undetected for the limited time of an exercise.

Bah. Humbug. (Yes lets spend 100 billion on useless toys!)
 
I didn't know that "Hunt for Red October" was required reading for our sub crews..... :D

Jokes aside, nicely done to our boys and girls!!
 
NameOfBeast said:
Awesome. As a crew member, or just a visitor?
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Moederloos said:
Or prisoner? :D
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I just visited the old ones. I've been an observer on the newer ones.

One of the things the Navy guys told us is that the old submarines could only provide enough water for the cook to bathe regularly. On the newer ones everyone can bathe. The crews and the rest of the members of the navy think this is a great improvement :)
 
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