Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "America's Most Realistic Submarine Documentary: The People's Choice Winner!" video.

  1. Of course it never happened, Admiral Greer said it never happened.
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  2.  @davidsandell7833  Might have been disinformation by the navy to throw the Ruskies off.
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  3. Automated BALLISTIC MISSILE PLATFORMS? For one thing, boomers are too expensive to let a computer program skipper them, they don't approach general human performance in such a complex task, much less an exquisitely trained and experienced skipper. But the bottom line is you can't afford to give a computer launch capability (I don't say authority, of course it would be designed to launch only on command, but even) that is too much responsibility for the most modern AI, to discern a valid authoritative launch command. A miniature semi-autonomous unarmed recon platform, perhaps.
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  4.  @Roarmeister2  Yes, and we do underplay the role propaganda had during WW2 in particular (I know, different war) “Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.” ― Winston S. Churchill Back then, US journalists (for example) were full in for the war in a way they have been for no war since. Actually, as much as I favor the WW2 Allied cause, that aspect WAS kinda creepy. When Roosevelt interred Japanese Americans, there wasn't a peep of protest from the press. The only opposition to this in his administration was from the Republican holdover, J. Edgar Hoover. In the interest of wartime solidarity, he did not make a public stink, but he insisted that the later to be declassified public record state that he was firmly of the opinion that their constitutional rights were violated by the measure.
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