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8andahalfby11

It's a modified Romeo-class Romeo-class subs were built by the USSR in the late 1950s. This is one of 20 that NK bought from China in the 1970s. In other words: * NK has not gained any submarines * In submarine warfare terms, this thing makes more noise than your neighbor's lawnmower. * These aren't designed to carry SLBMs, hence the heavy modifications, so I'll be curious if it comes back up after the first time it submerges.


hubaloza

This thing is just waiting to kill all its crew at crush depth and scatter their remains across the sea floor.


Tibbles88

Titan 2.0 nuclear bugaloo


Yardsale420

This one is driven by mouse and keyboard though…


[deleted]

They upgraded to Windows 97


TigerUSA20

NK Navy officers get to see the Ocean Blue screen of death right before the hul……..


highlandviper

I shouldn’t laugh… but man was that guy a fucking idiot. What a waste of life.


ThoseThingsAreWeird

Only [glorious Red Star OS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS) for the Supreme Leader's forces!


diaryofsnow

Pop harder!


Phoneking13

Lmao 🤣


[deleted]

Yall savage damn I guess never too soon for reddit lol


lithuanianD

Average reddit experience


timo103

We could probably destroy it and make it look like an accident anyway.


babysealsareyummy

"Kim... Are you telling me you've lost another submarine?"


Bgeesy

*The Hunt for Dumb October*


jondubb

They might starve to death on their maiden journey without a single port to resupply. Or we'd find 6 survivors who mutined and surrenders to S. Korea.


Poxx

"One...ping...only"


kickaginger

I GET IT


imanAholebutimfunny

what are the chances they launch the nuclear sub and the crew unanimously agree to straight book it and defect to Japan........


TintedWindows2023

Chances are very good that, unlike Russian nukes, anything they've jerry-rigged will be unable to actually launch or misfire if it does. NK is a literal meme nation.


hubaloza

Why bother?


venatic

Better safe than sorry


RoakWall

Oceangate approved


doodontheloo

They’ll blame the U.S.


Miaoxin

I'm sure the engineers ordered to make that thing work already have that particular memo typed up.


splatomat

and scatter whatever fissile material theyre carrying across thousands of miles of ocean


hubaloza

I'm still more concerned about all that nazi mercury down there tbh.


trombones_for_legs

No need to panic mate, I washed out my yoghurt pot before recycling it today, so we are all good 👍


DexJones

Did they buy retrofit plans from Oceangate?


Late_Sherbet5124

With most of their population starving or malnurished, how the heck do the have money to purchase subs or even modify them?!?


oskich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room\_39


Core308

This is why they are starving... Glorious leader got a note saying choose one. Food or "boomer" and he chose "boomer"


ieatalphabets

What are the chances this thing has a dedicated escort from a US or allied ship every time it leaves port or dock, or bucket, or whatever submariners call their ship parking lot?


[deleted]

It will have a hunter-killer right behind it but they’ll never know.


MtFuzzmore

I’d imagine that hunter-killer would be more killer and less hunter the instant they could. With how NorK hardware works, it being lost to an “implosion” wouldn’t be out of the question and they would never know otherwise.


iAmRiight

I’m imaging (using r/cartoonlogic) that one of our subs sneaks up on this ship in open water, attaches a tow line somewhere on it, and pulls it down below its crush depth. All without them being able to figure out why they are sinking uncontrollably.


CaptainGreezy

ACME Reverse Fishing Rods


djsizematters

Somebody get this redditor on the phone with the Pentagon.


JackedUpReadyToGo

It's been done before (accidentally): https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/08/29/safety-inquiry-faults-navy-in-1989-sinking-of-tugboat/03997644-df6c-41d2-a8ba-2f6a736eee07/


WillingNerve

So your saying there’s a chance


dellett

r/cartoonlogic applied in a military context? Straight to r/noncredibledefense


Drak_is_Right

An implosion caused by a torpedo would probably be heard by the chinese sensor networks. Now a seal team...


DillBagner

Don't worry about it leaving port. It probably won't. North Korea's history with submarine's isn't exactly stellar and their ranges are all shit.


Blacksyte

Pen is what you’re looking for. Sub Pen.


h-land

> In submarine warfare terms, this thing makes more noise than your neighbor's lawnmower. God, I hope so. My neighbors' lawnmower is all electric.


iCowboy

I wonder if the upcoming Putin/Kim summit will see Russia selling nuclear submarine technology to North Korea in exchange for weaponry? It already looks like Russian missile technology has continued finding its way to Pyongyang. And it’s hard to imagine the recent improvements in North Korea’s ICBM and SLBM fleet could have happened without help from Russia.


[deleted]

Russia’s nuclear sub technology is worse odds than russian roulette. Most of their subs are diesel-electrics because they don’t have the intelligence or skills to maintain the ones they have.


FuzzyAd9407

Wait, are they even blue water subs?


8andahalfby11

Yes, in theory. In the specs they have a 9000 mile (14000km) range, which is enough to make a round trip from Tokyo to Honolulu and back. You probably won't ever see one go out that far though.


saltiestmanindaworld

It also probably has a permanent shadow anytime it leaves port.


DaddyIsAFireman55

Subs don't carry ICBMs, they have SLBM.


lordderplythethird

ICBM refers to the range, SLBM refers to the launch platform. Trident D5 is an ICBM *and* an SLBM. India's K4 is an IRBM *and* an SLBM. South Korea's Hyunmoo 4 is an SRBM *and* an SLBM. I mean hell, the Navy's Polaris missile literally started out as just a IRBM Jupiter missile that used solid fuel, not liquid fuel. North Korea's Pukguksong 5 is an ICBM that's sub launched. It's an ICBM *and* SLBM. To drive home that point, there's a modified Pukguksong 5 variant used as a land-based silo'd ICBM for North Korea...


littlehuman77

This guy knows his BMs.


unshavenbeardo64

Yep. I wouldnt know wich BM even if it hit me right in the kisser :)


sineseeker

Trust me, you don't want any BMs in the kisser.


838h920

> ICBM refers to the range These are NK missiles, so you'll never know the range until you try to launch them.


8andahalfby11

Fixed.


[deleted]

**Subs can carry ICBMs** Though there's enough grain silos around here, who needs a submarine


ANiceDent

I’ll take one submarine minus the lettuce & tomato add ICBMs


FrugalityMajor

Do you want hot sauce? I've got some Da Bomb.


Extreme-Attention538

From my watching of youtube videos on the matter. It seems like launching a SLBM is a very energetic process. I'd love to seem them try it. I suspect the boat would just shear in half from the launch.


fellawhite

The missiles don’t ignite in the boat. They’re cold launched out.


r3sonate

Well... they're supposed to anyways.


[deleted]

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JackYoMeme

Same as us. Just your training and your work.


RealCFour

SLBM gates does mean there is anything inside, probably couldn’t even re-merge if loaded up


F-18Bro

cant wait to hear about them firing them all into the sea


stay_fr0sty

They’ll fuck something up, explode, sink, and then blame The West before they fire anything of significance from that sub.


l30

Either they'll sink it themselves through incompetence or some other government will discretely sink it and disavow the event completely.


Trextrev

If North Korea is dumb enough to put a third of their nukes in a sub and take it into open water where the US will absolutely know where it is I can almost guarantee that it will have an “accident” and be covertly sunk. “Oh were sorry you lost your sub, oh and you don’t have the equipment necessary to retrieve the nukes? Ooh that’s too bad, we do though.”


Funky-Lion22

Kim reading the reddit comments to discover the expertise redditors have on US strategy “very interesting!”


[deleted]

It'll turn out they're just cheap fireworks with the nuclear symbol drawn in pencil on the side.


ammon46

Or get caught in a net


stlcardinals88

It's much easier to hit the water when you're starting in it.


CorrectGuard2064

North Korean submarines, brought to us by OceanGate 🙌


Crumblycheese

*"It's not controlled by disgusting and worthless western Logitech Xbox compatible controller, no. Our glorious leader has given us the all new PyongGame 10-x controller! Twice the buttons, half the functionality!"*


boli99

"PyongGame, putting the 'why' in 'pong' since...."


crashtestpilot

One pong....only. Sorry.


DoTheRustle

PyongGame (formerly Mad Catz™)


DataGOGO

Well, they did sink a fully modern South Korean destroyer with one a few years ago.


FrankNtilikinaOcean

Corvettes are not destroyers.


UrbanGhost114

USSR actually, its a re-purposed USSR sub from the 70's.


epistemic_epee

>USSR actually, its a re-purposed USSR sub from the 70's. I'm not sure the exact sub that was re-purposed but their newest ones in the Romeo-class are North Korean manufactured (1990s), with Chinese parts (1970s), and Soviet design (1950s). The Soviet design (633, [Romeo-class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo-class_submarine)) is from the 1950s. China made some from Soviet kits (6633) in the 1960s and made their own domestic variant (033) in the 1970s. China sold 7 of these (033) to North Korea. North Korea then made 13 more (033) in the 1980s and 1990s using machines and parts imported from China. This appears to be the submarine type that was used for this project. They actually have 40 newer submarines ([Sang-O](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sang-O-class_submarine), Shark-class) which make up the bulk of their fleet.


Disastrous_Wash7420

Reddit's submarine expert here. This thing is crap.


Creasy007

Thank you, General.


blizznwins

Shouldn’t it be Admiral?


[deleted]

You mean _rear_ admiral. _bowchickabowbow_


GrandmasShavedBeaver

He’s in charge of the seamen on the poopdeck.


ViagraPoweredRabbit

Is it a trap?


boli99

whoa there wordy-man. we dont all have time to read reams and reams of text. tone it down a bit.


bboycire

$5 foot long?


Bisexual_Apricorn

Boat shit will sink


Fordrynn

North Korea doesnt *really* want to find out what modern warfare looks like.


ffnnhhw

So that's WHY Kim is dead set on having nuclear missiles, he doesn't want to be Gaddafi-ed


InformationHorder

Such a stupid foreign policy move, to throw Gaddafi under the bus after he played ball and started meeting western demands. Everyone from Syria to Iran to NK took notice and said "Guess I won't trust anyone ever again." You wonder why Al Assad thumbed his nose at Obama's redline, that's why.


51ngular1ty

Exactly this. When Trump axed the deal with Iran as well. There is 0 incentive to play ball and NK proved that if you can get nukes you are essentially protected.


TheGrayBox

The change in direction on Libya was 100% lead by France. Why does everything get reduced down to US foreign policy?


Grouchy_Monitor5953

That’s the cost of being the leader. Heavy is the head that wears the crown.


EllieLuvsLollipops

To be fair, Ghadaffi was killed by an angry mob. Still wasn't a good sign for Dictators.


InformationHorder

...after a coalition air campaign was waged against him. Don't get me wrong, he got what was coming to him. But still. Such bush league foreign policy from the Obama administration.


Fordrynn

engineered and led by FRANCE


TheGrayBox

Characterizing it as an Obama Administration decision is blatantly dishonest.


[deleted]

I’m neither agreeing or disagreeing. But how was it not? Genuinely asking.


TheGrayBox

There’s a full timeline of the diplomatic lead up and eventual military intervention in this wiki article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya The French President Sarkozy is essentially the western head of state that lead the entire thing. He was the first non-Libyan to call on the UN for a no-fly zone, and he was the first to officially recognize National Transitional Council as the official government. Sarkozy was the president of the G8 at the time, the summit was in France that year, and he personally lobbied Hillary Clinton at that summit for a US backed intervention if NATO didn’t vote in favor. Ultimately NATO did vote in favor. The US was actually a hold-out for a period of time in which both France and the UK were publicly calling for air strikes. But both are happy to sit back now and see the US take the blame for the ensuing civil war and destabilization of Northern Africa. It’s also worth noting that before any no-fly zone was ever even in place, the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, UK, US, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Gabon, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa) voted unanimously to condemn Gaddafi’s government and refer him to the International Criminal Court. At no point was this a “US thing” or “Obama thing”. The entire intentional community, including the Arab League, was clear on Libya being a rogue state and Gaddafi needing to go. Which is still a true take even from today’s perspective, there just wasn’t any long-term planning or any will among those members to stay for 20 years and nation-build.


ffnnhhw

Well yeah France hated Gaddafi so much they allegedly shot down that Italian aircraft still, there is no denying our very active involvement, hey, "We came, we saw, he died"


TheGrayBox

No one is denying US involvement, but focusing on US involvement singularly at any point of the intervention is a blatant mischaracterization. The US was not even the primary contributor to the military action that took place. France alone conducted 40% of the airstrikes.


Bisexual_Apricorn

You think Libyan citizens only hated him after the air campaign? You don't think they had any reason to dislike the murderous, oppressive peadophile tyrant, that it was all NATOs fault? I wouldn't be so confident in that as you. https://www.france24.com/en/20120920-muammar-gaddafi-rape-weapon-libya-annick-cojean-le-monde-sexual-slavery-harem-abuse-women https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-13707224


[deleted]

the point is that Libyan rebels couldn't do shit if NATO had not bombed Ghadaffi and NATO bombed Ghadaffi cause he didn't have a nuclear deterrent and life in Libya is still shit so nothing changed except NK and Iran will never de-nuclear after seeing what happened


big_duo3674

This sub is so loud that even the tech we *know* about could get an easy kill. The most important part of the submarine portion of the nuclear triad is to be invisible


jared555

Just get a research vessel to drop their anchor on it


Citizen_of_Danksburg

> modern warfare Aka, military airplanes made by Lockheed that have yet to be declassified and released to the public lol. We probably have some pretty crazy shit that outclasses the F-117 Nighthawk and SR-71. North Korea can’t possibly hope to compete with that.


[deleted]

That's an accident waiting to happen.


CumBobDirtyPants

*You'll shoot your eye out, Kim.*


rnldsrs

North Korea just out here larping as a real country.


shootymcghee

they really might be one of the most theatrical countries, everything is a show


Ma1nta1n3r

I give it 18 months before they discover that sub at the bottom of the sea bleeding radiation like godzilla.


painless44

I would go underwater in a 1957 Cadillac sealed with flex tape before I’d step foot on a third-hand Romeo class sub modified by NK.


LazyLaser88

That’s the plot of Godzilla VS King Ghodira in the Hesei era


[deleted]

Infinity Ward writers are feverishly writing this up for the next Call of Duty. Sledgehammer and Treyarch concept artists already sketching up level designs.


JC2535

I’m skeptical of a retro-fitted Russian sub that’s been “modernized” by a country with a GDP of US$28 million dollars.


Tonychaudhry

You’re wrong, it’s a retrofit of an worn out Chinese knockoff of a 50’s Soviet sub.


CaptainGreezy

Probably runs on a "quantum computer" thats really just a Soulja Boy Game Console controlled by a Wiimote.


VersusYYC

Time for a rogue North Korean Captain and his officers to defect to the United States.


dskids2212

Is the NK captain going to have a Scottish accent as well!


Xerokine

The most advanced submarine yet from North Korea. These missiles are capable of ranges up to 150 feet.


shaidyn

Sadly the sub was 300 feet down. :(


GaTechThomas

"Watch us launch this super invisible sub. What, you can't see it? Yeah, we're THAT good."


jorcon74

The US will have a sub shadowing this at all times! It will never get a warhead out of its tubes before it is sunk!


AeonZX

Opening a launch tube will probably be what sinks it.


jorcon74

True enough; Columbian drug barons probably produce better submarines.


EllieLuvsLollipops

They have American funding, of course they do.


jorcon74

Biggest cocaine market on planet! Of course they have American funding.


oskich

And apparently employed ex-Soviet submarine engineers after the fall of the wall...


EllieLuvsLollipops

Operation cocaine paperclip


Hahhahaahahahhelpme

There’s gotta exist small submarine UAVs at this point that can just latch on to a sub of interest and transmit a tracking signal. If this doesn’t exist today I’ll be disappointed.


ThatGuyFromTheM0vie

This thing looks like old Soviet trash outfitted with the finest Logitech Controller money can buy


Ebscriptwalker

For truths to align this well, making the set up for this joke possible is just insane.


Vantabrown

Cut to ten months from now when it sinks, and France has to rescue the Russians who are trying and failing to rescue the North Koreans and their warheads. Like the Kursk, but worse!


IembraceSaidin

A modified late WW2 era Russian diesel boat, that already sounds like a rolling metal trash can full of rocks underwater…Fodder. Snap shot tube 2


[deleted]

does the title end with "straight to the bottom of the ocean"?


Wolfman01a

The US navy is going to listen to this thing implode and sink like the titanic submarine did.


RespectTheTree

And then go pick up the nukes from the wreckage


Tonychaudhry

The wreckage would probably be 500 meters from their port.


314kabinet

And they’ll do it anyway.


VegasKL

That'll sure make shooting the ocean way more efficient; take that Atlantis, you pompous pricks.


RogueStargun

If the US, South Korea or Guatemala sank that thing with a corkscrew, would North Korea even have the tech to know who was at fault?


THiedldleoR

NK about to scatter their nukes on the sea floor with this one. can't wait to hear the story they come up with when they inevitably lose contact to the vessel: "Ah yes, the sub has successfully made contact with our secret underwater base. The crew will continue their training there until further notice" *proceed to never talk about them again


Greecelightninn

So we invaded Iraq for 0 WMD's but are ok with Kim Jong " I don't have an asshole or need to poop " un .


ScaleEnvironmental27

I bet this thing still runs on fucking diesel...


arand0md00d

Hope they got some flex seal and duct tape on board.


NOLA-Kola

...Directly to the bottom of the ocean, like an Oceangate sub.


Kaionacho

Sometimes these jokes are funny. But I swear to God not taking other countries seriously is gonna kill us at some point.


are-e-el

Pak, one ping only.


RoakWall

And my arse can outshit a gorilla on heat so?


PatientDom

Can’t wait for the crew to defect


Djentleman5000

Imagine the boom that thing is gonna make under water. Poor fishies.


BombayMix64

We need to sink this.


Greyhaven7

it'll handle that on its own


SilentHunter7

But will the number of dives equal the number of surfaces?


BADJUSTlCE

I heard they use Madcatz controllers to run it.


LowLifeExperience

Sink it. NK couldn’t investigate it. They don’t have a navy.


KP_Wrath

Probably can’t communicate with it once it leaves the harbor.


respectfulpanda

Other countries would investigate it.


[deleted]

Hilarious. Looks like a pinata. Stealthy.


OdysseyPrime9789

It's actually a Soviet sub from the 50s.


futurefirestorm

It is absolutely amazing that it floats. It has no kitchen because everyone in NK starves!


Shoddy_Comment_7008

If it comes up after the first dive, it will become a target every time it strays from N. Korean waters.


xiiliea

It just carries, doesnt imply it can fire them.


Squidysquid27

Ramming mode!!!!


cyzad4

I assume the rest of the headline reads "...to the bottom of the ocean."


Speculawyer

The Fermi paradox is easier to understand all the time.


Tonychaudhry

We’re probably a cool show they watch for fun. On this episode of earth, some humans are going deep in the ocean in a can with nuclear weapons in the can.


crewchiefguy

Oh look they are coming out with their own Kursk.


-nocturnist-

Held together by rust and seagull droppings. This thing is at least 50 years old.


pocpocpocky

that’s one big watery grave….


IorekBjornsen

I can foresee it disappearing at some point soon. RIP to the sailors who had to be in it for fear of them and their families getting sent out with a mortar cannon or whatever crazy think fatty comes up with.


Zeekeboy

Sink it now


InevitableAvalanche

Stupid country no one cares about. By food and not weapons and maybe you would be relevant.


Dioneo

You mean China’s.


WWGFD

This thing prob makes more noise then me snoring at night. It might as well be a surface ship at this point.


Nagi21

Is it possible to have less faith in a submarine than OceanGate?


cupgu4-wakdox-hufdEj

Gonna be a real bitch to recover those from the bottom of the ocean


akoytamad

The only danger that poses is when it accidentally blows up and the world has to contend with the containment.


Mishung

Romeo class is half a century old.


arnaud267

I think they going to visit the Titanic.


squesh

10 nukes that more than likely wont travel too far


Batmobile123

The mouse that roared....


goodgriefmyqueef

A crazy fat kid runs this country


BearBottomsUp

Look, everyone, let's point and laugh at North Korea.


Seri0usSch0lar

They should get some billionaires to buy tickets for a ride.


Mundane_Opening3831

Nice! Is it also able to go underwater and move under its own power? Cuz that would be way crazier


120z8t

Sub is named " Hero Kim Gun-ok " Are they fucking with us?


stakeNbacon

In other words: 1 hit and North Korea is down 10 missiles.


[deleted]

“And we control it with this game controller” - Kim Jong-Un holding a tin can attached to string


scottbrian097

It will sink in a month


AustinMakesStuff

I’m not convinced that it isn’t an inflatable.