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[–] BehavioralClam@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Likely, possibly, unexplained. Yet CNN somehow knows about it lmao.

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Those ship attacking killer whales are now a nuclear super power.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

killer whales with nuclear powered lasers.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The orcas have only been going after small sailboats (the kind small enough for a middle-class family to afford, if they own it instead of a house and live aboard full-time). They aren't the class conscious anti-oligarch crusaders everybody wants them to be.

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The phrases "middle class family" and "live aboard full-time" do not sit well with me.

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 points 4 days ago

A small boat is (well, was, these are probably ~2008 prices I'm remembering) cheap. It's probably been 'patched' by marinas and such, but at one time you could get a small sailboat for 10-20k, and get electricity+dock space for a tenth of the price of an apartment's rent. You would be living in ~200 square feet at best (and probably less than that) but it was doable. For a family of three, you could probably swing that lifestyle with a 40k boat, which is still well under a typical house. Again, it would be ridiculously small, but it's possible. A friend of mine grew up on a sailboat like that.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Let me just leave this here:

South Korea’s ADD showcases new Supercavitating Torpedo at MADEX 2025

ADD said that the development of this supercavitating torpedo is currently about two-thirds complete, and that after further maturing the torpedo’s stabilization control technology, it will finally secure the design and testing technology of the test body.

...The MRXUUV (Mission Reconfigurable eXtra-large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) currently under development by ADD could serve as testbed.

According to an interview with the ADD chief researcher, the supercavitating torpedo displayed at MADEX 2025 is an actual tested torpedo, designed in size to fit in a UUV, capable of being guided (in the initial phase of the launch, at low speed), and is being developed to sink enemy main surface ships with ultra-high-speed kinetic energy without a warhead.

The publicly released timeline doesn't line up, but the motivations do.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What would a South Korean torpedo two-thirds of the way through development today have anything to do with a Russian ship sinking off the coast of Spain a year and a half ago?

I’d wager this was Ukraine’s handiwork using conventional or drone weapons.

[–] DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Root cause analysis determined that the reason for the incident was that it was a ship built in Russia.

[–] Astronut@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] nailingjello@piefed.zip 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is something like that very typical?

[–] Nautalax@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Idk for other ships but their aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov became a meme for always being down for maintenance and/or on fire