Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Seahorse news

[caribsub@coqui.net]

So true bill,
anyways it is in my best interest to follow up on who buys the subs, and to
prevent the release of subs to the bad guy.
Dubai is mix between las vegas and singapor, you would be surprised, this place
is amazing of technical achievments and advanced projects. they are building a
2,200 feet high tower, and the largest artificial islands ever built, huge
market for small subs indeed.
Herve


, Mensaje citado por Akins <lakins1@tampabay.rr.com>:

> Sorry Herve, I didn't mean to ruffle your feathers. But, I don't consider
> ANYPLACE in the middle east as being safe. Dubai or otherwise.
>
> I don't expect you to refrain from building your subs in Dubai which is in
> the middle east.
>
> I totally agree that it is criminal to neglect and not prepare for attacks by
> new advanced mini subs. The U.S. Navy is historically infamous for being slow
> to latch onto new technologies. I know. I was a marine (Dept of the Navy) and
> my father was a submariner in WW2.
>
> One of these days the U.S. navy is going to be sorry for not taking a closer
> look into your subs and mini subs in general as a possible threat. Probably
> when sailors get killed as is usually what it takes to wake them up.
>
> General Billy Mitchell told the navy that battleships were vulnerable to
> bombers and obsolete. He proved it when his planes sank the Ostfriedland the
> WW1 captured german battleship for target practice in the 1920's.
>
> They tried to keep his early WW1 planes from suceeding by ordering him to not
> let them drop below a certain altitude and since bombsights were not good yet
> they thought this would keep his planes from scoring any bomb hits.
>
> They were wrong since Gen Mitchell disobeyed his orders and had his planes
> drop down to where they could score hits. They sank the battleship proving to
> all the world that air power made battleships obsolete.
>
> In 1925 he was courtmarshalled for this and as well for making public
> comments that the japanese would attack Pearl Harbor in about twenty years
> and do it on a sunday from an aircraft carrier. He was forced out of the Air
> Corps and died a broken man. Awarded the
>
> medal of honor posthumously in 1945. Kinda late. History has shown that we
> were ill prepared for WW1 or WW2. We certainly were not prepared for Sept
> 11th. It's kind of like... it takes someone to get killed before they will
> put up a traffic light, know what I mean?
>
> I laud your achievements which are marvelous and a great contribution to
> mankinds future in underwater exploration.
>
> It is natural for you to defend building your subs in the middle east. I
> would do the same in your shoes. If terrorists do acquire one of them by
> using a straw buyer to purchase it, and then sink or damage a U.S. ship, it
> is not your fault, even so...I would hate to be
>
> you if that happened.
>
> If a combatant does not have a naval force to combat the superiority of the
> U.S. naval force, history has shown they will look into low cost ways to
> nullify that inequity.
>
> Remember David Bushnell's turtle used against the British in our
> revolutionary war?
>
> The confederate state's Davids and the Hunley?
>
> The german U boats in both world wars against the larger British navy?
>
> I hope not, but I forsee a possible time when private possession of
> submarines may be illegal without special registration and scrunity by the
> government. Possibly scuba gear as well. I sure hope not.
>
> All it would take is one disaster and a knee jerk reaction from the U.S.
> congress.
>
> History has also shown that any weapon devised by man has been used with the
> (so far) exception of the nuclear bomb.
>
> I just see the handwriting on the wall my friend. That's all.
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Bill Akins.
>
>
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