Australian Sub nearly pwns US Navy

as rankin approaches Hawaii she readies herself for her first major exercise with the American Navy there's only one thing this is the zoo Ganga time South hurry the rest of it is the Americans have christened the exercise silent fury they have two destroyers and two frigates a nuclear submarine and a search aircraft dedicated to finding Rankin Rankin's mission is to elude detection and pass through a choke point a channel between two islands and then photograph one of the American destroyers to achieve this the captain is a cunning plan are you being a noisy bus yes I am si no not gonna validate it the captain wants the Americans to become accustomed to a high noise level as might be expected from a boatload of Australians and bouncing off the DSS deck however I would be I would encourage people to actually take it seriously and I may look better than waste food to those I'm not gonna love it Saul 72 days they're getting quite quads I like amperes at all try to confuse them June the seventh twenty hundred hours silent fury is started the last 48 hours we've been making quite a racket for we are now in our quietest state and traveling at slow speed on the coast using the ambient and Shore noise to mask our presence the Americans were supposed to turn off their sonar to give Rankin an opportunity to slip away but it seems they've dropped that part of the plan right from the word go they were trailing us even from the choke point started they're actually shepherding us down the corridor and now that the units are all in waiting out here anyway so made extremely difficult for us has been unrealistic real scenario the red ones the vessels that were and they're the possible hostile units say the ones that are looking for us and obviously the hostile because they're looking for us so there are 1 1 2 3 4 hostile ships out there and a yellow one yep choke point been between these two islands so I am basically is to position ourselves off the northwestern kneel mask us a little bit with a shawl here so gets himself some Sun our color make it harder for him to detect us through this direction yeah left-hand edge is about being 127 passive sonar is simply listening to what's out there up to now Rankin has been lying low by keeping her noise level below that already present in the water from undersea activity you can hear the waves crashing yeah all you know is here that's one's wise question we need a constant sandbox but Ryan forbearing the plan seems to be working Sona has detected that they've eluded the nuclear submarine you can imagine when deep went on quiet they would have gone captain Sarah sonar we've lost him Sir it would have been a major major kerfuffle it would have been their watch handover as well that would have made it even worse why they would have blamed on the other Washington vice versa people do it captain the be saying they're all a bunch of that idiots for losing this really knows you can't our submarines it's good salvations our standby points for a fix the taxpayer should be green for four down eight my mentor and look how to possible ice turn light of a our warship at green retreat zero intermittent rage are just I tell you twelve girls guys just a suitable wife life your liking shot a dip for hundred meters bearing a letter bearing a land that's priority the moment Sunni cities that you sure Shawn is 1 3 7 Shawn always bearing 1 3 7 7 48 weight is DV party sounding we sort of made around the top of the northern part of the island now we didn't have a lot of activity there we explored and have reasonably close to the coast now whistling reason we did water it nowhere near the coast so the weight of their posturing at the moment I suggested there's a chance that they hold us but tired of working we can do some ramp up in speed let them know that they do have us so that they maybe got a sniff and we're just hanging on in there at the moment hoping that they haven't I said sensor is absolutely right increasing Kenzi when the Americans find passive sonar is not working they upgrade to active sonar sound waves are sent out and then analyzed as they bounce back eerie sounds are heard in the control room through underwater microphones I mean everyone passive right up to 4 o'clock in the morning and then they've all basically bang on bang off on active from that time which we are we suggest it's a coordinated plan that Rankin uses geography to her advantage she sticks right up close to the island steep volcanic walls the Americans find their signals bounce back off the cliffs and by continuing to travel slowly Rankin hides in the wall of sound you so I say what I think so my washing was funny if nothing is to do something are Avesta basically sorry Rankin keeps safe undetected along the cliff wall what lies ahead is a dangerous crossing of open water to the second island she'll be vulnerable to detection for the past two days Rankin has avoided detection by sticking tight by the islands cliffs she loses herself in the active sonar sound waves that bounce back off the steep volcanic walls now a new day brings added danger as rankin must break cover and cross open water wasn't eternal 1936 rate about 2500 yards Oh 800 June 8th it's now time to make our dash between the two islands thus far we have remained in the shallower waters news the Islanders cover thanks 22 23 miles anything up to two and half hours all right this way they can get us well it really can give us if they think there is a chance that the u.s. submarine may have remained in the channel and could pick us off but my hunch is that the American units remain unaware of our position and are searching to the south just as ranked and enters the channel sonar comes through with some good news I'm a lucky break that don't it if you wait and the tricky given this is this is a tricky event but it's just become a little bit easier because some this ship is just decided it's time for him to relocate he's going to relocate his speed and he's put his self between us and anything down to the south so we're just coming around instead of him and for a while so he's still above its Polish border yeah what's that nice John this quarter still in zero nine five o'clock or they won't come further like I just change it for you we have intercourse two and a half hours later they reach the shelter of the second island and using the cliffs as cover they start down the choke point towards the US destroyer feeling confident they decide to sneak a look Thank You danger they go back a dangerous end on the other way for me to DP behind the black curtain the electronic warfare team have detected a US radar sweep and alert command so then are we here they don't yet from we're with that record with that radar if we put the mast up for more than 30 seconds chances are they will kneel at the ultimate is but the engineer never reported a military aircraft usual oh here comes a parting sending when I lost part of the ground what are we going to lose joy stick with money good 276 Fatima's s-parameter 3676 yeah we got no no he's enough fix we can drive through here Buster in it USS o'kane bearing a two-five 921 DV ans Magus 67 was at 29 that's 21 he's out there with their target the US destroyer O'Kane in sight grant can closes in if this were war the destroyer would be in torpedo range the arrival of the lone helicopter presents a chance of detection coming in now just going in now coming towards now yeah good on him too late good night Irene tell your story walking pal well done too late good night in the Fox so you're calling that a win yeah I would sleep with you definitely that's a weird one five minutes Rankin announces her presence with an Australian victory song he's hearing but hopefully knees they run take cover picking it up from there and order perfect size of American citizen to

Channel: DeafFret

Views: 1,144,752

Rating: 4.8870044 out of 5

Keywords: australia, sub, sydney, melbourne, episode, army, collins, class, HMAS, rankin, adelaide, US, navy, pearl, harbor, frigate, destroyer, virginia, submarine, hawaii, naval, warfare, heroes, ocean, boat, cruise, sailing, brisbane, perth, space, islands, island, yacht, port, water, royal, boats, seas

Id: d8Kv4rqR6RQ

Length: 11min 14sec (674 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 11 2011

Reddit Comments

[u/KramThe90]

So if they play this loud enough inside the ship will the US shio hear it over sonar? Or are they just radio broadcasting it to them the same way they would chat to them?

[u/dontlikecomputers]

Collins class sub copped a lot of crap but was a very good unit, full of US systems with euro hull, built in Australia, hence the complaints...

[u/ObjectiveDelay]

Did 3 deployments in 4 years on a USN DDG. The concensus is - if we're solo looking for a sub - we're proper fucked. We have active and passive sonar, but it's easy for them to find us and ultimately, while we're looking for them - a guessing game.

If we have a Frigate with us, our chances are much higher, because Frigates have Helos aboard, but the chances are still not that great - it is just literally that hard to find a submarine with a destroyer/frigate, even a destroyer with active and passive sonar and a Helo friendly.

[u/One_pop_each]

I was deployed with the Aussies last year. The maintainers came to work in high shorts and t-shirts and were the nicest god damn people I have ever met.

One time this dude came by and asked if he could borrow our overhead crane to lift an jet engine on a trailer. He gave me like 6 packs of Tim Tams and told me to freeze em immediately. A few hours later he came back and said they’d no longer need the hoist. I jokingly asked, “You want your Tim Tams back?” He gave me the, “Ah, don’t be silly, mate!” and gave me that friendly slap on the side of the shoulder.

I love the Aussies.

[u/BlueFalconPunch]

...This song comes from a ship down under....

[u/[deleted]]

Men at work have a great selection of tracks actually.

my personal favourite is overkill

[u/bassmedic]

I was on vacation in Australia earlier this year, and I have to say that Aussies are some of the friendliest, most hospitable people I've ever met in my life. They have a wicked sense of humor too.

[u/azz808]

cheeky bastards!

Whole vid is a good watch TBH.

[u/Kanuck88]

Would have loved to have seen the US Ship crew reaction