Ivy Bells proved one of the greatest coups by U.S. intelligence during the Cold War.
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Halibut and other submarines began regular courier runs to install new tapes on the tap while bringing back the old tapes for analysis by the NSA in what was called Operation Ivy Bells.
Since 2015, there have been reports of Russian submarines and spy ships trawling the waters near the ocean-spanning underwater fiber-optic cables vital to trans-oceanic Internet access. In fact, reported activity by spy ship Yartar off the U.S. nuclear-armed submarine base in King’s Bay, Georgia is likely in search of secret military cables used exclusively by the Pentagon.
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A submarine test-fired a missile off Florida’s coast Tuesday night. It happens more often than you might think [South Florida Sun Sentinel]
People who couldn’t identify a bright, flying object in the sky off Florida’s coast Tuesday night took to social media wondering if we were being invaded by inhabitants of another world.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Navy identified the unidentified flying object: It was a missile test-fired from a nuclear-powered submarine.
“Navy Strategic Systems Programs conducted a scheduled Trident II (D5) missile test flight at sea from an Ohio Class SSBN, in the Eastern Range off the east coast of Florida, on February 9th, 2021,” it said in an email.
Are Self-Destruct Systems Real?
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One of the most common tropes of science fiction is that almost any vessel or vehicle capable of carrying humans will have some manner of self-destruct mechanism installed, ready to blow the whole mess to the kind of reens that smither. Is any of this based in reality? Are there real-world military vessels or aircraft that actually have such systems? And I don’t mean stuff like the timing chain guides on my Volkswagen Tiguan; I mean
deliberate self-destruct systems. So let’s dig a little bit into this.
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Before we do that, though, you may enjoy seeing this little compilation of self-destruct sequences from the various