Japanese Self-Defense Force’s submarine humiliation… ‘Cell phone report’ only 3 hours after the merchant ship crash

Maritime Self-Defense Forces submarine’Soryu’ (captured by NHK website) © News1-After the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force’s submarine’Soryu’ collided with a civilian merchant ship, it was confirmed that the crew reported the accident by mobile phone only three hours later.

Earlier, at around 10:58 am on the 8th, while Soryu was floating above the surface of Cape Ashizuri, Kochi Prefecture, a civilian merchant ship in Hong Kong collided and three submarine crew members were injured.

According to NNN, a Japanese private broadcasting company’s news network on the 10th, Soryu’s communication antenna was damaged at the time of the crash, and it took 3 hours and 20 minutes to deliver the news via mobile phone. Maritime chief Yamamura Hiroshi (山村浩), chief of the maritime filmmaker, said at a press conference the day before that the loss of communication was unexpected, and that he was planning to add necessary communication equipment in case of an emergency. Soryu, commissioned in 2009, is a 84m long, 2950t submarine with displacement. It has 6 torpedo launchers and has a capacity of 65.

(Seoul = News 1)