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This is an april fool‘s joke, isn‘t it? This website is the only source for this news that I could find and the ship was also commissioned only two years ago.

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I had the same thought. Also, it seems wildly improbable that a real news story about this tech would lack even a passing mention of The Hunt For Red October, yet here there is none.

Military was holding the info for a while but then decided they wanted it released so they called up a reporter they knew. Probably as a warning to a certain frenemy.

I suspect this article is a joke, but that would actually be a smart strategy.

Required to release some info you'd rather not release? Release it on April 1st, phrased as absurdly as possible.

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