Anyone know why there is a submarine sitting in sydney harbour?
There is what possibly looks like a collins class (or some other small submarine) floating in the middle of Sydney harbour. Weird.
Posted Mar 18, 2018, 8:42 AM UTC
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[I snapped one on Friday when it arrived] (https://imgur.com/fjtDxvk)
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Reddit being Reddit, I was expecting a long sandwich rather than a military vessel
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That's an interesting angle of the harbour bridge and harbour. There's like no city in that picture.
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maybe old mate thought it was time to give collins a sunday drive
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Waller was down the coast recently.
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ASEAN summit /s
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It's a collins class sub, probably HMAS Waller which has been just been involved in training exercises off the east coast.
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Ahhh that's what that clunking sound was that I heard at the panthers game on Saturday.
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No that was the Sam Burgess owners in supercoach collectively banging their heads against a wall
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Reddit r/Sydneysub
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Arnold landed in Sydney yesterday - that's his escort.
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Wait, you mean they've gotten a sub to be fit for service?
It'll probably be sent to be fixed after being exposed to water for several days running now!
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This joke brought to you circa 2005.
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How many have they got in operation?
I'm not being a smart arse, I haven't heard about them for a long time but every time I did hear about them they were leaking and couldn't perform their duties etc.
The joke was they were made by the same people who made the Tangaras because both leak in the wet..that was the joke circa 2015
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It varies. But most issues were resolved years ago, the last few years it's mostly been an issue of keeping them all manned, which iirc is still the ongoing problem. But in terms of how unreliable they initially were, those days are mostly gone.
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Cool, I remember reading of war games with the yanks where even though they're diesel the Collins Class were incredibly difficult to detect and I believe we're able to "sink" aircraft carriers.
It's a shame the public reputation of them was that of them being full of constant issues.
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However, now that they've got them working, it is absolutely time to replace them, with the Future Submarine Program (SEA 1000) having started back in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins-class_submarine_replacement_project
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The japanese are back
Peekaboo!