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New Navy Nuclear Sub Debuts in Atlantic
The Associated Press ^
| Aug 26, 2006
| TRAVIS REED
Posted on 08/26/2006 8:42:31 AM PDT by george76
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To: RightWhale
I don't believe they build them in that manner any more. When I worked for Newport News Shipbuilding, they and Electric Boat were perfecting the modular construction - basically, building an entire compartment and it's systems, then welding them together.
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posted on
08/29/2006 5:55:20 PM PDT
by
Rafterman
("Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." - Bertrand Russell)
To: Unrepentant VN Vet
No, that's not an
Akula, that there be a
Typhoon-class SSBN, boys!
Thar she blows !!
But where was this photo taken? Damn, I never heard of anyone cruising a boomer past a public beach! Although the boomers sortieing from Norfolk had to remain surfaced past Cape Henry, and people at Fort Story could look out and watch them, as I did one day when a boomer was headed out...... very, very sinister-looking boats, they were, even the older Poseidon boats, because you knew what they were.
To: rottndog
It's about 77 feet longer that the 300 foot pig I used to work on. You were in SSN's? Or are you talking about the original "pigboats", the diesel boats?
I was a rider aboard the USS Pargo, SSN-650, for four days once on a cruise down to Tongue of the Ocean for early trials of the Mark 48 wire-guided ASW torp..... they put me in a six-man with some other JO's, cramped as hell, but that was the Sheraton compared to some of the quartering arrangements on those SSN's. I didn't ride along when the Pargo went back to the Barents a few weeks later for another Presidential Unit Citation.
To: F15Eagle
Russian subs, at least one model, was capable of, I think, 45+ knots and 3000 feet. Their titanium-hulled one...Can't remember her name, though.Alpha Class (NATO desig. :)
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:02:01 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just b/c your paranoid; Doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :^)
To: W. W. SMITH
Please keep in mind, to us airdales, subs are targets.
Only when we let you think we are. ;)
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:06:16 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!)
To: lentulusgracchus
You were in SSN's? Or are you talking about the original "pigboats", the diesel boats?
I was on a 637 "Sturgeon" class boat. We called her the pig because she hogged up all of our "free" time (other reasons too but I have to be nice here).
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:08:15 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!)
To: BIGLOOK
+*%&#&@# frame 106....and where was that? ....secret? :D
107
posted on
08/30/2006 7:12:43 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just b/c your paranoid; Doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :^)
To: Rafterman
That might be. When I worked in these it was Polaris and the George Washington, which is probably medieval tech already.
108
posted on
08/30/2006 7:42:12 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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posted on
06/08/2007 10:55:40 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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