Yemeni Houthi rebels suspected of damaging underwater Red Sea cables responsible for 17% of global internet traffic

https://lemmy.world/post/12539542

Yemeni Houthi rebels suspected of damaging underwater Red Sea cables responsible for 17% of global internet traffic - Lemmy.World

You know if they don’t post a vid showing off some shiny new submersible soon, then they probably went about it in the jankiest way possible

100 meters is pretty deep for scuba diving too…

diving bell maybe?
Sniper rifle from the surface

Regular bullets fired out of regular firearms basically disintegrate in water. Counter-intuitively, putting more energy into a bullet only worsens the results, making it stop even faster.

Underwater firearms do exist, but they are not common, and even they have incredibly limited range. As far as I know, none have effective range greatly exceeding 50 meters, let alone 100.

Whaaat I didn’t know they made those!

*googles

Looks like Russia made one during the Cold War for frogmen firefights (<-wild) At a depth of 15 ft, its effective range was 909 ft!! The deeper you go the worse it gets though, and it totally sucks on land too

Frogmen Firefights

Meet the APS Spetsnaz Rifle: The Russian Gun That Fires Underwater

Yes, you read that right.

The National Interest
Every source I can find mentions maximum effective range at 15ft to be ~98 feet, not 909. So that zero in the middle is probably a typo, if I had to guess.