1982 aerial view of the U.S. Navy Clam Lake, Wisconsin ELF transmitter facility, used to communicate with deeply submerged submarines.
So, when every military and high tech communication around the world is cut off, they tune into NK channel 4. Snort, snort, snort.
I wonder if a copy of “On the Beach” starring Gregory Peck is in that letter.
Radio 4...... what’s the frequency kenneth?
Doug Dalgleish & I wrote about Trident procedures for war in our 1984 book “Trident”.
Not true. military has had ultra low frequency communication capability for generations.
1982 aerial view of the U.S. Navy Clam Lake, Wisconsin ELF transmitter facility, used to communicate with deeply submerged submarines.
My sweetie was a sub-guy. He’s told me before that they had to keep radio silence while on patrol, but they were always listening to what was going on top-side. If it suddenly became silent, it would be ‘assumed’ that we’d been nuked & they would launch their weapons.
Not true. They can be detected. Not easily, but they can be detected.
A submarine commander may use civilian broadcasting (or a lack thereof) as a check on the state of the world above. But I very much doubt it plays any official role in their procedures.
So that is what happened to my penguin when I took it to England.
Tridents. “We hide, with pride”