And to think, some people on this forum think that the Russians have the tech to blow up the pipeline directly under a US Battlegroup. If that was true, then the US should really think long and hard about antagonizing an enemy that can conduct operations with impunity around US carriers. Those carriers might just start sprouting holes.
At a depth of 260-360 ft or less, any expert diver team could do this from the surface. It may not have been that high tech. Dive down, plant the bomb, come back up. And you wouldn't need that big a boat, either. I don't really know what a battlegroup sees.
I would also think that since submarines are hard to detect, the Russians could actually sneak up on a battlegroup and deploy saboteurs in the water.
I think that would risk an early detonation. Still possible, but pretty much near 100% it was the US, if not then Polish or UK Spec Ops working with the US to blind anyone from scanning it.
And to think, some people on this forum think that the Russians have the tech to blow up the pipeline directly under a US Battlegroup. If that was true, then the US should really think long and hard about antagonizing an enemy that can conduct operations with impunity around US carriers. Those carriers might just start sprouting holes.
Of course it was the US that blew the pipeline.
At a depth of 260-360 ft or less, any expert diver team could do this from the surface. It may not have been that high tech. Dive down, plant the bomb, come back up. And you wouldn't need that big a boat, either. I don't really know what a battlegroup sees.
I would also think that since submarines are hard to detect, the Russians could actually sneak up on a battlegroup and deploy saboteurs in the water.
It's not like they couldn't send explosives through the pipe...
But yeah, it was probably the US
I think that would risk an early detonation. Still possible, but pretty much near 100% it was the US, if not then Polish or UK Spec Ops working with the US to blind anyone from scanning it.