[Milsurplus] Missing Submarine

[Hubert Miller]

I saw somewhere that this Argentine sub was built 1980. The Falklands War was '82, so maybe they were already thinking of a proximate use.
The drug smuggler subs are not manned, AFAIK, strictly cargo.
Small countries can have big egos too. I think DPRK is an example of that: anyone can see it's a loser of a place; even the citizens of that
place get enough information to know it's a loser of a country, dull and poor, BUT, yes, they do have a few big weapons. Even Bolivia has a
Navy, altho they lost all their seafront territory many years ago.
-H

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Hue wrote:

"A friend forwarded this. I thought the frequencies quite odd, likely this was composed by some sympathizer, not sourced from Argentine Navy.
600 meter band channels? How long has it been since those were used? 3860.6 kHz ?   I'm sorry, but I think it completely unlikely that some
SWL or ham is going to detect something the U.S. and Argentine navies missed. This was not the famous disappearance of 1937."

3860 is not a ham frequency in South America.  For example, there is this time signal that I have heard often:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD2IOA<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHD2IOA&data=02%7C01%7Ck7ais%40msn.com%7C802e04cd2c084dd744b308d530cd61dc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636468581032019446&sdata=Zx0RrWpYMkPJ5CnKC%2BzooyvAajiZaXUcB9i96Q7dlIQ%3D&reserved=0>

As far as the utility of ancient military hardware goes, countries lower on the military food chain do get into conflicts with each other....   Even drug cartels have submarines these days.

RF

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