Fox News‘ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” journalist Tom Rogan of the news website
Rogan made the disclosure after host Tucker Carlson asked him about a recently released UFO video featuring a dark, spherical object flying off the coast of California near a Navy stealth ship. The craft appeared to have dived into the water and disappeared, with officers speaking in the video saying, “It splashed.”
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Department of Defense confirmed that the video was indeed taken by Navy personnel. Investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, who leaked the video online mid-May, said that no wreckage was recovered when the Navy looked for the still-unidentified craft.
US Navy/Sgt. Audrey M. C. Rampton
A March report showed that China had recently launched its third anti-submarine detection ship.
Those ships are meant to augment China s sub-detection abilities and erode one of the US Navy s biggest advantages.
A new open-source investigation has revealed that China recently launched their third anti-submarine detection ship at a shipbuilding facility in Wuhan, augmenting Beijing s ability to detect submarines.
The ship is most likely a SWATH design, or Small Waterplane-Area Twin Hull. The twin-hull design is both very stable, even at high speeds or in rough seas, and is also known for being very quiet, a useful quality to have for a ship intended to use sonar and other acoustic listening devices to detect submarines.
The submarine had broken into three pieces, tragically confirming that all 53 crew members had perished.
The exact cause of the sinking remains unknown. Indonesian officials have ruled out human error and have suggested a power failure or undersea wave may have forced the submarine to descend far below its crush depth of about 655 feet. The government plans to recover the submarine with help from China.
Deep-water submarine sinkings are rare but always fatal, and their causes are hardly ever fully established.
In 1968, for instance, four submarines from four countries were lost with all hands in a five-month period. Over 50 years later, their causes remain unknown.
US Navy
The Navy is still building and fielding its advanced Virginia-class attack submarines.
But the Navy is already planning for their eventual replacement by the SSN(X), or the Improved Virginia-class.
The United States Navy s Virginia-class fast-attack submarines are among the youngest in the Navy.
They re nuclear powered and armed to the teeth with four torpedo tubes as well as Tomahawk cruise missiles and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. The Virginias incorporate a number of new technologies and are among the stealthiest submarines in the world.
The Navy designed the Virginias from the outset with a number of features not previously seen in other submarines, such as a fiber optic fly-by-wire control system which replaced the mechanical control system seen in previous submarines, as well as a secretive electromagnetic signature reduction system that helps keep the submarine undetected.