In a few short years, it will be a Typhoon. :)
Posted on 10/24/2016 6:39:15 AM PDT by Strategy
Unlike the United States Navy, which went all-in on nuclear power, Russia maintains fleets of both diesel and nuclear-powered submarines. A land power encompassing much of Eurasia, Russian submarines are based much closer to "the action" than American submarines are. While Russia maintains nuclear submarines for distant ocean patrols, its fleet of diesel submarines is more than adequate for conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and the Russian near abroad.
The mainstay of the Russian Navy's conventionally powered fleet are Project 877-class submarines, known as the Kilo class to NATO and the West. Nicknamed the "Black Hole" submarine by the U.S. Navy, the improved Kilos are extremely quiet. The class has been built more or less continuously for thirty years, a testament to their effectiveness at sea.
The Kilo class was originally meant to serve the navies of the Warsaw Pact countries, replacing older Whiskey- and Foxtrot-class boats. The sub measures just 238 feet long by thirty-two feet wide, and displace 3,076 tons submerged. The ship has a crew of just twelve officers and forty-one enlisted men, and has an endurance of forty-five days before needing to be resupplied.
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How would you do that?
IIRC, Clancy was approached by a Naval security officer after The Hunt for Red October was published asking him how he knew about certain things he had written about.
Clancy’s replied he learned of it from bits and pieces gleaned from published naval journals.
Why do I (and the entire world) need to know that?
An Obama supporter?
Yes, sometimes the Navy is sloppy in that way, but still, they don’t as a policy endorse or publicize overtly what their detection capabilities are. I might add that a lot of military personnel of different flavors liked his work and that it is possible that one or more of them personally filtered what they knew and didn’t do a very good job of it.
The urge to brag and divulge is sometimes strong with those loosely connected to things like this, and they think ‘talking in code or being nebulous’ is not divulging capabilities.
Tango classes have been canceled due to flooding in the city of Buenos Aires.
*Groan*
In a few short years, it will be a Typhoon. :)
Well, you would have to use demoncrat logic.
Sorry.
You can find these things out, as long as your source doesn't intend to tell you.
Keep reading, publias.
Quiet technology helped by an illegal transfer from Japan and Norway IIRC...
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/22/opinion/submarined-by-japan-and-norway.html
They have one of these you can tour in San Diego. Very cool ginormous compared to a WWII sub.
I thought the Kilo class was mainly based out of Venezuela and Columbia hauling ‘Freight’ for the cartels.
:-)
I was late to the “I see what you did there” party.
For the record, I am one of the only few that got your Tango joke.
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