Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas 0/n 🧵
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about time you reveal all the secrets about military killer dolphins!
aug 8, 2025, 12:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh what the hell. I'll take a reject chance. Any chance you can provide some guarantees that if we place an order at the US, we actually get the supplies, say, on time if not, at all??
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MEAN. You said repost not opinion. Crap :P
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119 💪😁
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292 already! Poor Mr Sutton. I will show mercy and not repost anything myself.
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22 now 😅🤌
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Someone told me: In the 1st Iraq war, the American tanks could shoot a projectile further then Saddam's Russian tanks, so all the US tanks had to do was keep a good distance away from the Russian Tanks Someone told me: During the Afghanistan mujhadeen war against the USSR, there were SAMs
aug 7, 2025, 12:38 pm • 0 0 • view
that an individual soldeir might have The stinger you could fire, then duck down into your foxhole and guide it all the others, you had to stand with line of sight to the target guess which SAM the grunts preferred
aug 7, 2025, 12:38 pm • 1 0 • view
What they told you has a grain of truth, but there were other fire-and-forget types
aug 7, 2025, 12:40 pm • 4 0 • view
Thanks I am very liberal, so for the 1st thirty years of my life, I heard constant complaints about how bad American weapons are, eg the engine on the M1 Abrams tank uses to much fuel, etc etc and it turns out, when you need to "Keep a tight asshole" that none of that shit matters; what matters is
aug 7, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
can you kill the other guy 1st
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I was raised conservative, and all I ever heard was that our weapons were too “mean.” That we didn’t need to blow shit up that hard, but the defense industry wanted money, and that we went to war to make that money. And I believed it. And then Russia invaded Ukraine.
aug 7, 2025, 4:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Reminds me of the last Perun video, where a sentence like this came up: "The task is to make the fight as unfair as possible." Sounds asshole~ish at first glance, but is spot on and very much correct.
aug 8, 2025, 5:16 am • 2 0 • view
www.materielsterrestres39-45.fr/fr/index.php...
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Haha “swimmer delivery vehicle”
aug 8, 2025, 1:44 am • 3 0 • view
This thread is a work of art. Thank you so much!
aug 9, 2025, 5:00 am • 0 0 • view
Being picky, is it possible to re-tweet when not on Twitter, or whatever it's called nowdays?
aug 7, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
🤓 Retweet? Ackchyally it is called Repost on this webzone. 🤓
aug 8, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder why there is still frogman in this submarine. It’s not the 90’s anymore. 😆
aug 7, 2025, 11:35 am • 5 0 • view
It’s a 1970s design
aug 7, 2025, 12:10 pm • 5 0 • view
You're going to end up writing a book's worth of tweets the way the RTs are going.
aug 7, 2025, 1:31 pm • 4 0 • view
I Am Number 8
aug 7, 2025, 11:29 am • 3 0 • view
Up to 18
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65…
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Blimey
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70.
aug 7, 2025, 12:10 pm • 10 0 • view
Me thinks a certain someone might be rethinking his choices with that original post.
aug 7, 2025, 12:12 pm • 16 0 • view
He’s a muppet that much is clear
aug 7, 2025, 12:16 pm • 27 0 • view
It was just a joke, a reference to a movie called: "I Am Number 4", I saw I was the 8th person to retweet, nothing nefarious or such. btw nobody noticed I see.
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"The prisoner"
aug 7, 2025, 4:14 pm • 2 0 • view
😘
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Were is the rest?
aug 7, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
How many crewmembers and passengers for this one?
aug 7, 2025, 11:36 am • 0 0 • view
Is all of this information already public? Even if it is, is it wise to give it to the masses. You never know why someone would want this information.
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1. The first ‘special forces’ style mission from a submarine occurred in August 1915 WW1 when Lt. Guy D'Oyly-Hughes, Royal Navy, swam with a makeshift raft to blow up a Turkish coastal railway
aug 7, 2025, 11:34 am • 161 13 • view
Would you not consider the turtle to be the first one? 1775 by American David Bushnell against the Royal Navy in NY?
aug 7, 2025, 1:49 pm • 1 0 • view
First use of a submarine in war for sure. This is more relevant to SF missions, although he wasn't trained for that obviously, and was more in the tradition of RN officers doing daring deeds
aug 7, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Blimey…they still had barrels of gunpowder then? Or are those (hopefully empty) rum barrels filled with boom-powder? Hornblower would approve!
aug 7, 2025, 12:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Gun cotton I think
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Writing my book on American intel in WWI I ran across a 1918 document claiming that US Army intel personnel “work[ed] on submarine connections” between Italy and the Austrian island of Lissa bringing back documents from “Austrian official files.” Possibly true, but I doubt the subs were American.
aug 9, 2025, 11:27 pm • 2 1 • view
What about the Hunley? It was special.
aug 8, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
I've been looking for sources on British maritime irregular warfare in or around World War I and finding nothing. Got any recs?
aug 7, 2025, 2:05 pm • 2 0 • view
My Covert Shores book brought a lot together but it's out of Print :( The National Archives in Kew I'm sure, for primary sources
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2. D'Oyly-Hughes suffered a sad end when as a Captain, on 8 June 1940, he went down with his ship, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious. Ungloriously, it is widely considered that his attempt to sail without adequate protection was ill advised. 1,533+ lives lost in the sinking
aug 7, 2025, 11:39 am • 132 6 • view
Blimey, 25 reposts already! I should have prepared… 3. The U.S. Navy SEALs owe a lot to the French (In 1950/60s French diving tech and underwater vehicles was very influential on then UDT, later SEALs)
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Taunt us again!
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4. Dry Deck Shelters allow special forces submersibles (SDVs) to dock with submarines. Only U.S., UK and France have this capability
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Am 🤔 they will become more common as subs increasingly turn into motherships for drones.
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5. The modern DDS is basically a French idea from 1970s, sometimes called a suitcase.
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6. Actually the first country to mate small submarines with larger ones for special missions was Japan. In early WW2 Japan was ahead on lots of this type of tech Painting by Tom W. Freeman, via Valor in the Pacific National Historical Park
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And this is how new submarines are born!
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7. By now Italians will be gesticulating that I’m ignoring their dry deck shelters and SDVs… no, but that’s subtly different, and the shelters are much smaller
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But much, much more stylish.
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8. It’s fair to say however, that Italy invented combat swimmer type special forces. Check out www.hisutton.com/Mignatta.html
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Fun fact: incoming SOCOM commander was an exchange officer with the Italian SEALs
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9. The Dutch Dolfijn class submarine of the Cold War had three pressure hulls arranged like a triangle. Good boats for their time and definitely an interesting arrangement
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10. Actually Dutch engineers had been designing 3-hull submarines in WW2 See www.hisutton.com/Dutch_WW2_Su... Small break, will resume
aug 7, 2025, 12:01 pm • 108 4 • view
Fabulous effort with this thread! But there seems to be an error in this painting. I read your account of the Pearl Harbour raid. Those IJN mini subs had a hatch connected to their mothership sub so the crew could get on board while both subs were submerged. So no crew climbing while surfaced.
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Maximum visibility and zero aircraft were aloft when she went down. Sad and stupid.
aug 7, 2025, 11:57 am • 2 0 • view
Sharks with lasers?
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This made my day! Thank you ⚓️
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Every episode of Mythbusters where they test the Lethality range of explosives under water just entered my brain.
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Didn't James Bond have one of those in white that also doubled as a sports car? #thespywholovedme
aug 10, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
This strongly resembles the remote controlled sub in "Licence to Kill".
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