Submarine to the rescue

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Pendekar

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Let say there's this Submarine on patrol. While on patrol, they stumbled upon a group of survivors from a downed plane or a floundered ship floating and drifting in the middle of the ocean far from the normal shipping lane. Will they scrub their current mission and rescue the survivors or will they ignore them and continue with their mission?
 

wild_Willie2

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If they are under wartime conditions or on a life or death mission, then most likely no. Under any other circumstance, then most likely yes. They will have to answer to an inquiry regardless.
 

aussienscale

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Let say there's this Submarine on patrol. While on patrol, they stumbled upon a group of survivors from a downed plane or a floundered ship floating and drifting in the middle of the ocean far from the normal shipping lane. Will they scrub their current mission and rescue the survivors or will they ignore them and continue with their mission?
There are hypothetical's and then there are "Hypothetical's" either way not really sure of what the point of your question is, what you are trying to get and what the intent of your question is ?

Certainly not worthy of starting a new thread and not in line with what this forum is about.
 

Toblerone

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Probably another writer making sure his plot idea is grounded on reality, there have been a lot.

It's as if there is some list of defence-related forums posted on writers' forums. :D
 

cvsoryu42

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if there is no "wartime", rescue should be perform in my opinion. However,
we have many examples that similar thins were not done.

During WWII, one of the mean allied discoveries was the enigma code. They could have save many lifes in specific engagements and operations. But they did not take risks to keep enigma secret.

During pacific war, however, most enigma information went to submarine forces which greatly aided to damage the Japanese merchant navy "silently"...
 

ngatimozart

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if there is no "wartime", rescue should be perform in my opinion. However,
we have many examples that similar thins were not done.

During WWII, one of the mean allied discoveries was the enigma code. They could have save many lifes in specific engagements and operations. But they did not take risks to keep enigma secret.

During pacific war, however, most enigma information went to submarine forces which greatly aided to damage the Japanese merchant navy "silently"...
Submarine rescue is a very specialized capability and is subject to many different factors. Every rescue is different. You are completely wrong about what you have said about WW2 "rescues". First of all, Enigma was the code name for the German cipher machine. Ultra was the code name for the intercepts that Bletchley Park made and and subsequently decrypted. The Kreigsmarine code was changed regularly and in 1942 or 43 the Germans added another cipher wheel to the cipher machine which exponentially increased the number of cipher setting combinations. The machine that the Royal Navy recovered from the U Boat that surrendered, gave them that sixth wheel and the settings because they got the current code book as well. The British went to great lengths to hide from the Germans that they had the machines, code books and could read some of their message traffic.

The Japanese ciphers were broken by the Americans who read most, if not all of their message traffic. I think that the British may have broken the Japanese codes to, however prior to 7 December 1941, their main effort was focussed against Nazi Germany. Now most, if not all, of this information is available online if you care to do some actual research and look for it. If you use Google you can usually access that information very quickly. On this forum we prefer people to use factual information.
 
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