"‘A large fleet named “Mol Comfort” carrying Arms for FSA from the U.S. has crashed in the Indian Ocean as it made its way from Singapore to Jeddah, on board were 4,500 containers loaded with arms for the Syrian rebels’
‘MOL Comfort sank due to yet unclear reasons, sailing from Singapore to Jeddah and after that to North Europe, leaving behind hundreds of drifting containers and a huge aftershock hitting liner sector and all of the maritime industry.
Even the scale of the consequences is hard, impossible, to estimate, not to mention consequences themselves. This is the 1st case in liner sector, when modern ocean-going liner container vessel (built in Japan!) sank in the ocean after breaking in 2 parts, like a poorly built and managed bulk carrier or over aged coaster. Nothing like this ever occurred, and no one believed it was possible, even theoretically. It just could not happen, but still, here it is.’"...
What a PERFECT plan to bankrupt the economy........stop shipments of goods INCOMING to the US.....with our "just in time" real time
delivery system....between that AND a cyber attack.....we would be toasted.......JMO
homeagain wrote: What a PERFECT plan to bankrupt the economy........stop shipments of goods INCOMING to the US.....with our "just in time" real time
delivery system....between that AND a cyber attack.....we would be toasted.......JMO
" and a new generation of "smart", deep-diving torpedoes (such as the Mark 48) which are designed to detonate under a ship's keel and break its back."
Israeli? Russian? Iranian?
??? Do not misunderstand. The fact that I posted a snip from Wikipedia in no way says, suggests, implies that I know anything about anti-ship torpedoes. The Mk 48 is ancient. In fact WRT anti-ship torpedoes I know nothing at all. I am completely clueless.
And the Denver Post had an article this weekend that our CIA has been teaching the Free Syrian Army how to use anti- aircraft missiles against Syrian helicopters and military aircraft. (They promised to never use these weapons against civil aircraft.)
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.