ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 30

September 2005
Articles, newsreports and Items of interest :enigma2000-owner@yahoogroups.com

HJH’s E2k watch

We continue with HJH’s informative column……………

Midget Submarines

Midget Submarines – via www.sharkhunters.com. with permission.

>To: "sharkhunters" <sharkhunters@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Midget subs.
>Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 17:12:45 -0400
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>One of our people reports that Iran is building midget submarines under the guidance of Admiral Mohammed Reza Zahedi. He won't tell how many they are building or anything about the specifications. One military expert in Tehran said that the submarines looked well-engineered but thought they would only be used to ferry troops.
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>Another military expert says that one midget submarine has already been >delivered to the Iranian Navy and it can fire rockets and torpedoes and earlier this year, Iran was building torpedoes at a pretty rapid rate.
>Further, Iran operates at least two submarines they bought from Russia some years ago. In fact, that was the cover story of an issue of the Sharkhunters KTB Magazine many years ago when we reported that Iran bought three KILO Class non-nuclear submarines from Russia.
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>Who knows what is the real purpose for these midget submarines, but it seems unlikely that they would be used for ferrying troops due to their small size - they couldn't carry more than a few men but with the potential to fire rockets and torpedoes, they could be possibly used against ships and shore installations. Let's see what comes of this.
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>SHARKHUNTERS - Official Worldwide Publication of U-Boat History
>Subject: More heat! via www.sharkhunters.com. with permission.
>Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 07:25:55 -0400
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>Russia and China have agreed to joint LARGE-SCALE military maneuvers for nine days. The name of the "exercise" is "Mission of Peace 2005" and will be comprised of more than 3,000 Russians and more than 5,000 Chinese - all branches of the military. 18 through 26 August 2005 is the target time >period for these exercises.
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>The first phase will be a command exercise in the Russian Far-Eastern Military Region (HQ Khavarovsk).
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>The second phase will consist of firing strategic cruise missiles from Russian Tu-95 bombers, landing of paratroops etc. in the Liang-dong
>peninsula in the Yellow Sea.
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>There will be the Defense Ministers from China, Russia AND four other central Asian countries inspecting this exercise. At first the Chinese wanted these exercises conducted in the South China Sea close to Japan and Taiwan. The Russians blocked that plan.
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>Remember when China and the Soviet Union were best of friends and Richard Nixon split them apart? Now they appear to be getting back together in mutual - and powerful - alliances. the heat on the Pacific Rim is building...............and the apparent goal of the Chinese is Taiwan and it is the prediction of many that they will suddenly and without warning just overrun this little island and once they are there, who is going to militarily confront them? History is unfolding right before our eyes.
>SHARKHUNTERS - Official Worldwide Publication of U-Boat History
>www.sharkhunters.com

Other sights – other antenna and proboscis!!

Readers of the ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter are no strangers to seeing land mounted antennae and other strange objects. Thanks to HJH and permission from Sharkhunters we are able to bring you an image of the ‘bits’ protruding from the conning tower [sail].

sub masts

Taken from Sharkhunters KTB#186 with permission [via HJH]

If anyone has anymore info on these ‘protruberances’ we’d be most glad to learn more.

The Submarine is of Soviet construction ‘Project 677 LADA’ and is anchored at Sankt Peterburg [Saint Petersburg].