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Let me just leave this here:
The publicly released timeline doesn't line up, but the motivations do.
What would a South Korean torpedo two-thirds of the way through development today have anything to do with a Russian ship sinking off the coast of Spain a year and a half ago?
I’d wager this was Ukraine’s handiwork using conventional or drone weapons.
The reactors were bound for North Korean subs giving a pot of mitivation for the South Koreana. The Spanish claimed evidence of a supercavating torpedo strike.
Also the Ukrainians are rarely this mysterious when they blow something up. They are openly at war with Russia and thus don't need to be.
It could have been Ukraine, but Ukraine does not have super cavitating torpedoes, so if that's the case the reporting on those and the shape charges must be wrong.
Not only this, but they also love to find reasons to test new weapons designs in real situations. Testing in a lab is great, but you'll never know the real effectiveness until it's used for real.
What makes you think supercavitating torpedoes are involved at all?
That's what Spain's investigation thought was most likely
Fair enough.
Doesn’t seem like it’d be the South Korean one, though. Just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.
Yeah, no one in here is claiming they know 100% who did it.
But it would make sense if SK did. They have the motivation and potentially the means.
I think a limpet mine is a far more likely explanation, why risk such a heavily classified piece of technology falling into enemy hands?
To prevent the literal unpredictable madman neighbour with a mortal vendetta against you from getting a nuclear reactor.
Also, Russia already has super cavitating torpedoes, and there's not necessarily that much to learn from their pieces after impact.
Not saying a limpet mine isn't likely, but this also feels like exactly why SK is developing those torpedoes.
MRXUUV is a comically terrible acronym. Why even bother using the "x" from "extra" if you're going to make an acronym that reads like a silicon valley pyramid scheme?
Maybe it makes more sense to a first language Korean speaker/reader and we’re too English language to get it?