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To: myknowledge

Our submarines do use 2 hulls


4 posted on 01/23/2010 12:37:18 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 Halfbaked: 50c)
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we call the inner pressure hull the “people tank”


6 posted on 01/23/2010 12:38:40 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: mylife
Which ones?

I meant double-hulled subs designed along the lines of the Akula, Typhoon and the latest Borei class.

9 posted on 01/23/2010 12:40:25 PM PST by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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I love all of these Navy threads. Brings me back, ya know?


28 posted on 01/23/2010 1:02:20 PM PST by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: mylife

I think the confusion is that the Russians make subs with two pressure hulls, AND an outer hull. We make ours with one pressure hull and one outer hull.


54 posted on 01/23/2010 3:11:12 PM PST by dangus (Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
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