Born Hunter
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So I've read mate, mostly on the Navy side though. The SF units tend to get all the recognition from joe bloggs. But as you point out, there are much lesser known units and trades, like the ones in question, who have taken things to the next level but only get the recognition from those in the forces who actually understand. Part of me would love it if nordstream was a British job. I could take the onslaught of memes from all the truthseekers
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Makes total sense. I've actually just been reading up about the RE divers. I just assumed the underwater demolition of, for instance shore defences for an amphibious landing, would be exclusively done by one of the clearance diver squadrons. Sort of hand in hand with destroying mines and reconnaissance etc. I didn't quite realise how skilled the RE divers were or in fact that they trained alongside Navy at Horsea. I suppose their skills would be in much more demand with more complex demolition tasks than simple shore defences. Especially these days with reduced head count. Anything '
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Undetected? BALTOPS was shadowed by two very detected Russian warships. Not to mention the invention of the submarine, mini ROV, remotely operated mine, underwater demo and in-line-inspection pigs.
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Yeah but he’s Ukrainian. No, fair. As a this sites wise man has already told me on this thread, “you learn something knew everyday”. For a hypothetical British op, would RE divers join up with Navy clearance divers? Or would it depend on what units are deployed. Or would it exclusively be RE? I just assumed RE area of responsibility would have normally been fresh water.
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It was just a bit of humour tbh mate. I saw this post covering Ukrainian combat swimmers today and it was just a nice coincidence. That said, I didn’t know it wouldn’t be in their remit. I know various branches have diving units for different tasks.
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The Germans were warned in summer by the CIA about a possible attack scenario on the Nord Stream pipelines. U.S. intelligence claimed to have intercepted Russian communications in which concerns were expressed about possible Ukrainian attacks on Western infrastructure. The Ukrainians allegedly tried to rent a boat in Sweden for this purpose. The CIA did not consider the scenario of a Ukrainian attack to be very credible, but the mere fact that the possibility of an attack on Western infrastructure was mentioned by the Russian side prompted the Americans to warn the Germans about the scenario.
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That’s a great piece. Covering a lot, and a lot more, of what’s been discussed on here already and the potential methods of sabotage.
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So the Royal Navy has about 3 escorts available to man this ‘500 mile wall’. Not really sure what the point in it would be anyway.
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Don’t let them change you socks! If you want to shave your legs, you go for it.
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Yeah, god forbid the Russians employ collarless terriers, it’d top the balance!
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I would say it’s granted not thinking about someone on the internet isn't spiteful. LOL Have you seriously just compared locating a collarless terrier in an earth to locating a pipeline buried under the sea bed? Or is that another one of your apparently pointless and totally not nuanced anecdotes?
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Totally agree.
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No one I know cares about it. They’re more interested in crypto. Personally I couldn’t care less. If nothing it’s a shame to clutter the night sky. It does however change the conversation around anti satellite weapons. Such a dense satellite constellation providing comms infrastructure basically leaves this generation of anti satellite weapons inert.
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In this instance, I agree. The evidence is stacking up to sabotage. My post you have quoted was simply pointing out that weld defects are common. If a pipeline exploded, new or old, and there was no reason to suspect sabotage or accident, then welds would be high on the list of potential causes.
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The threat to world’s communications backbone – the vulnerability of undersea cables | Navy Lookout WWW.NAVYLOOKOUT.COM This has been in defence commentary for some time now.
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Genuinely don't get what your point is. Do you think I work at a petrol station? LOL Finding pipeline in a f***ing field isn't hard, lol, like I said, I have done it. Subsea introduces challenges. None of which are insurmountable, especially in shallow waters.
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Yeah, Aramco is the big leagues. When I was in upstream, Aramco meetings used to get people twitchy. They knew they had the biggest dick and could swing it about just because.
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I wish I’d never said it now. Just awaiting “??? you think you have a vote!… born numpty!”.
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He genuinely thought if you don’t vote that you vote automatically goes to the election winners. I could go on. Lol. I’m not threatened by such genius.
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I found that generally Western operators (National Grid, GRT, Chevron Midstream etc) had high a high calibre of technical staff and were hard to mug off. Chinese, Asian, and the smaller Middle Eastern operators (not the likes of aramco), could be sold snake oil and would take a back hander for an inspection contract. That’s not to say Western standards eliminated faults, but they’d spend a fortune dealing with them and wouldn’t tolerate bullshit.
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I don’t disagree, except that defects do happen, even during manufacture, even in the eu.
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If the West attacked Russian infrastructure in international waters then it sets a new normal in the grey zone. Suddenly it’s acceptable for the Russians to attack transatlantic communications cables. Which would cost us billions in lost financial transactions. For what gain, given Europe is already finding other energy supplies. Russia specialises in this kind of attack and have been using nordstream as a weapon already.
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Yeah, sorry for daring to question your gangs narrative from a position of a little experience. You're no welding expert you say. Pipelines commonly have welding defects. In fact one of the deliverables of pigging is weld inspection and repair. You found electrical cables did you. Lol, well done.
