[MuttTheHoople]

[Patton@Bastogne]

Ohio-class knock-off ?

[Rodamala]

Entering service in 2004, the $3-billion Jimmy Carter is one of the Navy’s most secretive warships. The sailing branch does not comment on the vessel’s features and deployments. But Owen Cote, a submarine expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the ship probably has a “moon well,” a kind of floodable chamber that allows divers and undersea drones to exit and reenter the sub while the ship is submerged.

Submarines are historically referred to as boats. Is the Jimmy Carter a special case?

The other thing I note is the starting sentences with coordinating conjunctions. Perhaps the Chicago Manual of Style says it's OK, but I had been taught to use an appropriate conjunctive adverb instead.

It's just some stupid thing that I always notice when I see a sentence start with "And" or "But", not that it has anything to do with anything important here, or that what I was taught matters, or that I am "right".

It just seems really informal to me.

[ken5050]

Why would a sub have TWO nuclear reactors?

Did other Soviet subs have a pair, or is this the only one?