Born Hunter
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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.
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Just read up about it and tbf it’s only in 50m of water which is probably diveable for combat divers? So an attack by some other state would be simplified compared to deep water.
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I'll have a think about it a bit more. I think locating pipelines is pretty simple, certainly on land (I've done it). The application we were testing was an ROV (sub) mounted marine mapping system, specifically burial depth. I'm just pointing out that for anyone without access to the pipeline, there are probably significant hurdles. But again, I only dipped my toe in pipeline inspection and got out promptly. If it was Russian state sanctioned, then it'd be simple enough to run a pig packed with explosives or just ramp up the operating pressure. If it was sabotage then I agree, the Russian
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Conversely, if you're going to sabotage a pipeline, why hit it in multiple places? One hit is a mission kill. Pipelines are buried, normally a couple of meters. To the point mapping their location can be a problematic. Without going balls deep into studying the specifics, I'd think a direct attack would require specialist ROVs operated from a surface mother ship, and pragmatically an explosive capable of stressing this buried pipeline beyond material yield. Alternatively a military sub with specialist features for this sort of stuff (something the Russians actually specialise in as a
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Lol, you’d hope. NDT identifies the integrity threats that lead to such events.
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So pipelines never go bang? And there aren’t private companies that operate fleets of deep water ROVs specifically for pipeline integrity, amongst other things? I only spent 8 months managing an R&D team working in pipeline inspection, part of that in a joint project with a large specialist marine NDT company. And I’m no where near qualified to conclude anything from this.
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No one cares if contractors die. Drones and contractors gave governments a more politically acceptable warfighting tool.
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Was it Wagner that attempted to move on a US JSOC base in/near Syria a few years back? I can't remember the name of it all but iirc a mob of them were closing on a base of Delta and Rangers, the politicians phoned up their Russian counterparts to confirm this convoy wasn't Russian Federation forces and were in fact PMCs, and then called in C-130 gunships, A-10s and F-22s. Reading it was like it had been written by some low budget direct to DVD film. The units and kit Wagner came up against in that instance was a comprehensive list of all the 'cool shit' the yanks have.
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My first thought would be this is an accident caused by the pipeline operators f***ing about with it as a political weapon. IIRC the Europeans sealed a deal this week for LNG imports from the Middle East. I don't think anyone needs to force their hand through sabotage.
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Mainstream, not really. In more dedicated sources, yes.
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If they were actually doing anything serious, they wouldn't be showing up on a map anyway.
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In common with two of them, they are the unelected political wing at least. Given the British people, seem to continually favour the Tories over them. I suppose they have chiselled it into stone or written it in blood to help sell the illusion?
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Sorry, ‘alternative and totally valid, please don’t cry, facts’.
