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Gerry Doyle
@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
Reuters Global News Desk editor, Asia. Defense, other stuff. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a book about Chinese missiles: tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
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the *reason* the u.s. hasn't had a sub sink in 50 years btw is that the guy in charge of the navy at the time was like "screw this" and created a program called subsafe which is exactly what it sounds like
Guitarro sank pierside after that
They do not fuck around with SUBSAFE either.
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Gerry Doyle
@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
Reuters Global News Desk editor, Asia. Defense, other stuff. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a book about Chinese missiles: tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
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