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Please note this does not mean the USSR wasn’t that way. Just want to clarify I’m not a tankie, lol.

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[–] slemptastrophe@piefed.social 122 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

You know how you hear stories sometimes about shadowy government agencies converging on an area for no apparent reason, and then leaving just as fast as they came? People usually assume it's aliens, but I wonder how many of those incidents have been stupid shit like this.

[–] redsand 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Military term for this is "broken arrow"

It happens more than you would think mostly by the US but also Russia. Usually they find the things pretty fast but a few are just missing and at least one I remember was underwater somewhere it couldn't safely be recovered so the area is patrolled.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you referring to bombs the Air Force accidentally dropped or the Navy losing nuke subs? Cause we’ve done both and no one has explained what happened to the USS Scorpion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submarines

[–] redsand 4 points 1 week ago

Air force, I think they lost one in the atlantic or gulf in the water but they found one or two swamp ones. My headcannon for the Nemo shark submarine was a mined nuclear sub

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