Device found near Bali and Lombok identified as Chinese undersea monitoring system

Possibly just a "Yep, it's exactly what it looks like. Don't over think it, because you are already correct."

yeah, it's like: oh well, you got us there (pwease leave it where you found it uWu)

It’s like “weather balloons”, if it’s obviously monitoring you want it to seem innocuous, so having commercial labels and temperature and pressure sensors provides plausible deniability.

> and don't get me started on Russian propaganda in America and the EU. No, Do get started. We absolutely need to bring up, more often, how Trump is a Russian asset, and has been for decades. Even if you are tired of talking about Russian bots in social media, the fact that Trump bankrupted a series of casinos that had Russian capital all over it, and still does business with those same Russians, should be notable.

> and don't get me started on Russian propaganda in America and the EU Facilitated by the same wealthy Americans that are running the US. Russia utilized Cambridge Analytica, which is often attributed to Steve Bannon and not his handlers, the Mercer family. They not only have been working on extracting and leveraging data for political purposes since the early 90s through their SCL Group, but Rebekah Mercer was placed on the board of the Heritage Foundation in 2014, just before Cambridge Analytica really spun up. Heritage was operating in Russia shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed, with an office in Moscow and all, with regular meetings with government leadership. Granted, Putin came into power under an anti-reformist banner, but that means trusting Putin to be sincere for power, and the constant crossing with Heritage or linked people is suspicious. Heck, the Heritage-owned Reagan administration had Oliver North take the fall for the Iran-Contra affair, and he ends up heading the NRA when they were investigated and found to be a Russian asset. There's a chance that Russia was a modern prototype for what the wealth and race supremacists have been attempting to establish in the USA, desired since the failing of the Business Plot (Prescott Bush, who approached Smedley Butler to replace FDR as a fascist dictator, is a direct thread to Heritage through HW).

You should read The CIA as Organized Crime by Douglas Valentine.

Who would be stupid enough to think they weren't?

That's how they got Harold Holt, you can never be sure

Ah yes, the ONLY alternative.

I love how that's the only alternative, it's either a battery or 3 small Chinese dudes 😂

It’s China, might well be 3 Uyghurs in there

It could also be Wong

Wong ?

Are any of the "cables" still electric (copper)? I thought they'd all be digital fiber optic now. Makes me wonder how you spy on fiber optic cable. Gotta splice in i guess

That would explain how it can gather information for a long time. But how does it communicate its findings back to the owner?

Just a micro use cable with a shit ton of 3-6ft extenders all wrapped in saran wrap

It's definitely not RTG. You've been playing too much Kerbal Space Program. RTGs are expensive and give off only a tiny amount of power, and there are half a dozen better ways of generating power under the sea that also don't cause a radiation hazard with the political fallout that creates. RTGs are only really for deep space missions. A huge bank of batteries are the most obvious choice. Depending on depth, solar or tidal power will also do the job very well.

What you're saying about the lasers detection range seems to ring true based on my knowledge of things but I did see the Chinese have similar planes running these things and I have to wonder if both countries are doing it and it's useless, why keep doing it? My gut feeling is you're right though it's probably nearly pointless but they are testing it anyways.

What country are you talking about

That is the one I think I was reading about. Though possibly the Wikipedia or some other internet artical on an mil enthusiast site