A Sea Wolf attack submarine struct something in the South China Sea. I get the feeling it hit another sub or some anti-sub defense. This is definitely a non-good event.
A lot of cargo containers are lost overboard. They don't all immediately sink to the bottom (sealed air, bouyant cargo, etc)
What's the sonar signature of a 40 foot shipping container that's just floating below the surface? Are you even going to hear it without going active?
What kind of damage does that do, if your submarine plows into it, even at a slow speed? My understanding is that the bow isn't entirely metal, that there's fiberglass (or something similar) where the sonar equipment is located.
> As for what the submarine hit, details remain limit. U.S. officials have reportedly said that there are no indications at present that the "object" was another submarine.
"No indications at present" does not mean the same thing as "did not." Neither gives a proper quote of whatever statement they're paraphrasing, but I can easily see the former being transmuted into the latter by a careless journalist.