Kegsbreath feeling so smug killing more unarmed and defenseless people in boats.

Wow that's fucked up on multiple levels.

1. to attack a literally defenseless warship ... Could you not have, you know, boarded it instead? Forced it to surrender? Feels like at that point you can just threaten to do what you did and they would have to comply.

2. if you've seen the released periscope footage of the attack, and realize that that explosion was fully from the torpedo and not from an ammo store blowing, it makes it look that much more like an intentional massacre. Is there really no smaller munition on board that sub that can be used to disable a defenseless target?

This is all so stupid

• this is all so fucking dumb
• its… uh… a frigate. Frankly, I doubt the claim that it was unarmed. You can look up the weapon systems specs on that page trivially. It is also armed with torpedoes, and supported an ASW chopper, and so conceivably could pose a threat to a submarine if it detected one. You can see the box launchers for ASMs on the deck, for fuck’s sake.
• in a context where country A is engaging in open hostilities with country B, military vessels of the opposing side are fair game in international waters.
• in terms of picking up survivors: extremely shitty, yes, but… what is a submarine supposed to do? They’re notoriously cramped already. Not to mention, taking on a bunch of enemy survivors onto a highly classified submarine that has a somewhat smaller crew compliment than the target vessel doesn’t sound like a thing any sane sub commander would do.

I might be missing something big, but this doesn't seem like a degenerate course of action. I think this mainly because

1. It is a military vessel and thus has no reasonable protection based upon it being "peaceful"
2. The unfortunate reality is that the US is at war again in the middle east, and boats get blown up in war, especially when the US government has declared that destruction of Iranian navy is one of their goals.

Overall, I could understand the condemnation for the attacks from the perspective that the US shouldn't be fighting an illegal war, but if you concede that point, the attack of an enemy military vessel irregardless of its current capabilities is a fully ok course of action.