Indonesian submarine gone amiss

[Skybird]

They found it, at 2800 ft. A speaker said the boat has broken up into three pieces.


Detonation?

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Skybird

They found it, at 2800 ft. A speaker said the boat has broken up into three pieces.


Detonation?

Perhaps but not terrorisme Kursk stile they were training firing live torpedo I guess something went terrible wrong before firing during the firing exercise or right after.

This is nothing but guesses-I'll await the official report.

Markus

[Skybird]

It could very well be like that, mapuc. Some days ago media reported the sub was on a drill, and during that excercise it participated in asked for permission to go deeper than where it was expected to "attack" from. It then was allowed, went deeper, and then "something" happened.



My speculation: maybe they tried to fire a life torpedo from too deep, and the torpedo launcher's hatch door broke from the pressure.

[Furia]

In some report that I have read on the media it mentions that the last communication was the permision to load the torpedo tube. So one can guess that one possibility could be a malfunction that flooded the forward torpedo room when they opened breech door.
Just guessing but it could also happened in a very different way.
Hopefully they will investigate and the cause would be identified.
Rest in Peace.

[Skybird]

My guess:

They asked for permission to go deeper, and I think they went too deep. Then:

- either the depth was what brought them into trouble and collected damage quickly until they broke, or (maybe more likely because of their request to load the tube)

- they asked for permission to load the torpedo tube, the inner tube door sealed or sealed not correctly, the outer one went open and the too big pressure due too excessive depth "entered" the boat via cracking open the inner torpedo tube doors.

Something like this.

[Jimbuna]

Hopefully the truth/reason will come out sooner rather than later.