http://www.news.com.au/world/north-korea-sunk-south-korean-warship-killing-46-sailors/story-e6frfkyi-1225856989612 (http://www.news.com.au/world/north-korea-sunk-south-korean-warship-killing-46-sailors/story-e6frfkyi-1225856989612)
QuoteAN elite North Korean suicide squad of human torpedoes may have been involved in the sinking of a South Korean ship in mysterious circumstances.
South Korea's Defence Intelligence Command had alerted the Navy weeks ahead of the sinking that North Korean suicide squads were being deployed, according to reports in Seoul, Sky News reports
The "Human torpedo" squads were said to involve small submarines, Sky News reports.
They are navigated so close to the target that their torpedoes or explosives blow up both target and the attackers.
:horrormirth:
:lulz:
"SWIM FASTER, JUN! THEY'RE GETTING AWAY!"
This is MADNESS.
Guess its cheaper and lighter than using regular Torpedoes?
Quote from: NotPubli on April 22, 2010, 10:43:17 PM
Guess its cheaper and lighter than using regular Torpedoes?
Or more cartoonishly villainous, which I'm pretty sure is Kim Jong Il's goal.
FACT. The detained reporters brought home by Bill Clinton's visit were actually rescued from being tied to a railroad track. FACT.
No! Their balance sheets didn't equal 0, so they resorted to having less Liabilities,
.'. Shoot human torpidoes = less wage to pay
.'. Balance Sheet = 0
NP,
Saving Korea's Economy.
EoC, link? That just seems outright goofy.
Quote from: Sigmatic on April 23, 2010, 12:29:16 AM
EoC, link? That just seems outright goofy.
Unavailable due to North Korea's highly insular administration. :wink:
Quote from: Da6s on April 22, 2010, 06:38:34 PM
http://www.news.com.au/world/north-korea-sunk-south-korean-warship-killing-46-sailors/story-e6frfkyi-1225856989612 (http://www.news.com.au/world/north-korea-sunk-south-korean-warship-killing-46-sailors/story-e6frfkyi-1225856989612)
QuoteAN elite North Korean suicide squad of human torpedoes may have been involved in the sinking of a South Korean ship in mysterious circumstances.
South Korea's Defence Intelligence Command had alerted the Navy weeks ahead of the sinking that North Korean suicide squads were being deployed, according to reports in Seoul, Sky News reports
The "Human torpedo" squads were said to involve small submarines, Sky News reports.
They are navigated so close to the target that their torpedoes or explosives blow up both target and the attackers.
:horrormirth:
This seems a little iffy. It could be something the ROK made up.
For some reason, when I read the title, I pictured Kim Jong-Il swimming through the water like a dolphin, screaming at the top of his lungs and cracking his skull open on the hull of a ship.
Maybe I should take it easy on the paint thinner.
Great story, but sky news is garbage.
Pretty sure this story is legit. I believe I also saw something about it on Fox News, Huffington Post, and The Daily Mail.
I have a friend who claims to be North Korean (ran away when she was a child, and was imprisoned by Japan as a spy, and eventually made her way to Canada) She says that the bestiality rate is astronomical and that prisoners are executed by being fed to a tiger, and often raped by the tiger as well.
Most likely she is making it all up and is actually a middle aged shut in having a laugh at me, but its made North Korea sound way more interesting.
I have a friend in Seoul who didn't contradict it. I suppose I should ask him specifically about it, but he didn't go, "Oh, no, that was supposedly a left-over mine" or whatever else is being postulated when he saw it.
Quote from: Vladimir Poopin on April 23, 2010, 04:52:17 AM
Pretty sure this story is legit. I believe I also saw something about it on Fox News, Huffington Post, and The Daily Mail.
:lulz:
Bullshit story is bullshit
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/04/north-koreas-human-torpedoes-myth-or-military-threat/
QuoteThe sourcing on these articles is a bit dubious: several of them rely on unnamed "experts" or "intelligence sources." As the Los Angeles Times notes, South Korea's defense minister, Kim Tae-young, has been publicly doubtful about whether a commando could manage to steer a small submersible like a SEAL Delivery Vehicle into a ship that was moving at speed. "SDVs are very slow and there is a low possibility that such vessels were used in an attack," Kim reportedly told lawmakers.
That said...
http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk02500&num=6445
QuoteLee also said he heard about human torpedo units, explaining, "They belong to the sea sniper brigades of the East Sea and West Sea fleets. Each fleet has one suicide unit. They travel on the submarine in the beginning but, from a certain point they ride on the torpedo and direct it to its target. Torpedo carriers are told that they can escape, however, in reality it is very difficult."
So they do exist, maybe, but they probably weren't actually used.
Aside from the propaganda angle there is no need logistical logic for NK to have suicide torpedoes.
To blow up any mid sized vessel you probably only need around 200kgish of explosives depending on where you hit it/ effect method. something like Torpex perhaps. Even a double hulled submersible can be destroyed relatively easily with a shaped charge. as opposed to something being single-man submarine sized.
As for guidance, human visibility is terrible underwater, add in reactions. A Simple magnetometer, sonar receiver or other seeker would work much more effectively, especially against surface vessels who can only manoeuvre within a limited plane.
Given the fact that NK has made a range of Ballistic missiles which are good enough to export, I'm pretty sure they can construct a half decent seeker for a torpedo for the say 65 kg weight envelope that a 'commando' would inhabit.
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on April 23, 2010, 08:24:08 AMI have a friend who claims to be North Korean (ran away when she was a child, and was imprisoned by Japan as a spy, and eventually made her way to Canada) She says that the bestiality rate is astronomical and that prisoners are executed by being fed to a tiger, and often raped by the tiger as well.
Most likely she is making it all up and is actually a middle aged shut in having a laugh at me, but its made North Korea sound way more interesting.
... if this is one of your necro slash death rape buddies then yeah they probably totally didn't lift that story from some sick hentai or shit.
Did the tiger have tentacles? How many dicks did it use to rape them with?