Courtesy of the scumbags at Toshiba...
I didn’t hear that.
That’s all right, Mr Ryan. My Morse is so rusty, I could be sending him dimensions on Playmate of the Month.
I'd like to know more about this ....
How is this possible?
Cost of $770 million, vs ours at about $3 billion?
Maybe we should subcontract!
Two pings if you agree.
Ping.
I bet that the sub rattles and creaks like an old Chevy truck going too fast over railroad tracks. Russia’s industrial base is obsolete, its skilled workforce is old and declining in numbers, and corruption saps Russia’s military procurement. As with prior Russian subs, to keep costs down and avoid embarrassing breakdowns and the risk of fatal accidents, the Borei class will mostly sit in port, with brief training forays into the Barents Sea — but lots of chest thumping articles in the Russian press.
And of course, don’t forget the new metallurgical advancement in their Titanium-Putin-Kursk alloy that boasts the most advanced submarine screen doors in naval history.
“We will pass through the American patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest city, and listen to their rock and roll... while we conduct missile drills.”
HOWEVER, we spend something like 8 times as much money per year as Russia on our military. So while they have built 3 brand new nuke subs very recently, we have built 24 of them.
I looked for articles on all of these 24 subs, and the best that I can find is something that says we’re building at the rate of maybe 1 sub every 4 years. So that tells me that nearly all of the 24 subs are being built in a TOP SECRET LOCATION, one that no one knows about.
It’s sure great that we’re doing all of this, and we must, or people wouldn’t be complaining about our excessive levels of military spending. And they’re right - why do we need to build nuke subs 24 times faster than the Russians? In fact, if we cut our military budget in half, we would still be building nuke subs 12 times faster than Russia!!
So let’s do that, for starters - and balance the budget!!
Many years ago I heard about Toshiba being caught selling Russia the technology to make our submarine propellers as quiet as they are. I haven’t bought a Toshiba product since.