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Re:Sweden has proof foreign submarine entered its waters by moron4hire on Friday November 14, 2014 @08:58AM (#8607095)
How do they know it's a foreign submarine? If they know it's a small submarine, and the pilot was apparently clumsy enough to scrape the bottom, maybe it's an amateur engineer who has built their own submarine.

It's not exactly unheard of: https://www.google.com/search?q=homemade+submarine&espv=2&bi...

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Re:Sweden has proof foreign submarine entered its waters by cmdkeen on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:01AM (#8607112)
Because they can probably get accurate sizings of the fin from the photograph and scrapes in the sea floor, and no amateur will have built a submarine that big.

"Small U-boats" are small in relation to SSNs, and especially SSBNs, they're not actually small.

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Re:Sweden has proof foreign submarine entered its waters by seivui on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:13AM (#8607171)
_If_ it was an amateur engineer it must have been both a crazy and a skilled motherfucker. The bottom scrape did probably occur when the submarine did hide from the Swedish navy.
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Re:Sweden has proof foreign submarine entered its waters by jacquesm on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:33AM (#8607265)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC3_Nautilus
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Re:Sweden has proof foreign submarine entered its waters by moron4hire on Friday November 14, 2014 @10:52AM (#8607686)
Exactly, that's all the point I was trying to make: not exactly unheard of for Scandinavians to be building crazy-awesome submarines in their backyards, essentially.
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Re:Sweden has proof foreign submarine entered its waters by sicher on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:04AM (#8607125)
They were clear that it was a military vehicle.
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Re:Sweden has proof foreign submarine entered its waters by ptr on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:23AM (#8607217)
I don't know that it was "scraping the bottom", some Russian subs are known to have caterpillar treads.
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Re:Sweden has proof foreign submarine entered its waters by SuperChihuahua on Friday November 14, 2014 @11:26AM (#8607901)
I think that the amateur engineer would have explained by now that it was his sub...
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