[burzum]

I don't know anything about escape pods. I would think they would be unfeasible due to the size of a submarine crew. You would need large pods to be able to ferry 100 or so submariners to the surface. Due to space/weight considerations I couldn't imagine a military submarine implementing them. Perhaps you are talking about an attached mini/rescue-sub. Again for the space/weight considerations and the other items I discussed earlier, I think it would be unfeasible. There have been submarines built with rescue-subs attached, but there is far too little gain.

[llevrok]

The Roooskies will never put decent escape hatches or other emergency devices in their craft. Mission comes first and the crew last. Reckless, by our standards.