I believe I was reading the bear and the dragon, terrible terrible piece of literature, and he actually said that the Apache has a 20mm gun. Man, he’s getting old, time to go back to real estate Mr. Clancy.

Doh, kev you’re absolutely right, it’s Sharpe. I was getting that name confused with the Sharps carbine. hehe.

Anyone ever read the Sharps company series of books? I’ve always been interested in Napoleonic warfare, but never got around to reading that series.

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There was speculation from JDW that the last boat built, which was stretched 2 meters, was being tested with AIP. It’s debatable whether 361 had it too…. Or it could be the diesels sucking the air out. But like you said, it will be hard to find out, unless the current new government is really embarked on more ‘open-ness’.

Tom Clancy’s newer books are crap and drivel- he could use an editor. I hate reading 800 page books of boredom. Red storm rising and red october were his heyday, he should put da pen away now.

Ink, AQOWF was written by Eric Maria Remarque.

I personally like Michael Shaara’s Killer Angels, not 100% historically accurate, but good!

Interesting, some theories are that it was an AIP malfunction since everyone died at their posts. Also, the accident may have occurred 2 weeks ago at a depth of 10 meters, but since the submarine was on a no-contact drill, they didn’t discover it until recently.

I don’t know about that Ja.

Some screen caps posted by yellow-pimp in the CMA forum were taken by CCTV when the sub was towed back to Dalian. No seawater found inside, sub looks pretty intact.