Earlier this week June 18, 2023, my cousin Ron asked me about the fate of the deep submergence submarine Titan. My 5-word reply – ...they are dead or lost. Turns out the US Navy strongly suspected the Titan was lost early Sunday, June 18th – and reported this finding in classified messages to top brass and the on-scene Titan search commander. One of CNN's ace gray-haired reporters was seen yesterday seriously asking why it took so long for the US Navy to publicly release their opinion that Titan likely imploded just a couple hours into its descent on the wreck of Titanic.
As background, do a valuable read of the Wikipedia Internet post describing SOSUS. From what I've heard and read from non-military sources, this Wikipedia article seems fairly accurate.
Click HERE to check out the article.
Thanks to the discovery a few decades past that a cowardly retired US Navy Officer John Walker (died 2014) and his family of spies, the secrets of SOSUS were accurately disclosed and confirmed over time to the USSR. So the valuable classified SOSUS system as then configured in the 1960s+ was considered less useful following the Walker spy-network treason. And with the end of the Cold War (OBTW Washington and the world, the Cold War has never ended), SOSUS information was thought less valuable to military strategic planners... perhaps even unnecessary to some of these star-laden wiz-kids. But who among us believes there is not now an operational SOSUS replacement system (some form of SOSUS upgrade) that provides USA defense managers with accurate data on the position of adversarial submarines. And to that self-important gray-haired CNN reporter – NOW HEAR THIS -- whatever it is that now provides the USA with submarine intelligence is now likely highly classified. Bottom line – it is obvious to a most casual observer that it is this system or sound analysis method(s) that heard the Titan implode. Whatever hardware and software, or physical/virtual assets are employed to discover and evaluate submarine activity at sea is none of the general population's business -- and the ethically deprived inquiry by a CNN "alleged reporter" is dangerously inappropriate. It seems equally obvious that an average 4th-grade science class will easily understand why the secrecy of such a SONAR system is important in securing the safety and security of the US people.
The decision to release the US Navy's classified position regarding a likely Titan "catastrophic implosion" rose to the level of the Executive Office of the POTUS -- (or hopefully, this better be true!).
Note: The Titan image inserted at the top of this post is sourced from multiple Google Internet news publications and is likely the public-domain property of the OceanGate firm.
