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US 'taken aback' by HMS Astute (British sub)
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| 06 March 2012
Posted on 03/06/2012 8:15:14 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: wbill
I was reading “Scorpion Down”, and the author said that one could visualize the amount of ocean accessible to modern submarines by standing in a room with an 8 foot ceiling, and putting the head of a match against the ceiling.
Anything above the bottom of the match was accessible by submarines.
Wow...I did some quick math, and that came out to around 500 feet. Perhaps that was 1968 submarines, or maybe someone just got lazy and used the “excess of 500 ft” statement.
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posted on
03/06/2012 10:24:24 AM PST
by
rlmorel
("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
To: Osage Orange
After taxes, about $12.50 an hour.
To: Gamecock
Boat I was on in the 1970’s was:
Displacement: 4,309 tons, Length: 292 ft, Beam: 32 ft
Looks like the moved the torpedo room back up to the nose.
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posted on
03/06/2012 10:29:31 AM PST
by
edcoil
(It is not over until I win.)
To: spetznaz
I left New London in 1988 to go to my final tour in a Submarine Squadron in San Diego. I just looked it up, and she was commissioned USS VIRGINIA (SSN-774) on October 23, 2004. That surprised me because they were beginning to build it before I left Groton. As my aging memory returns, the sonar example I gave was for the Ohio Class boats and the info given out at that time was that the Virginia Class at full throttle was quieter than the Ohio Class tied to the pier.
Thanks for the comeback.
SKCM(SS) Russ Snyder, USN Retired
Chief of the Boat USS Philadelphia, SSN690, 1987, 1988.
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posted on
03/06/2012 10:35:59 AM PST
by
Retired COB
(Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
To: Gamecock
I always had it in my head that in subs the crew hotracked. (Im an Army guy, so help me out on this....) When I was in we did hot rack. At least 1/3 of the crew was on watch (operating the ship) at any given time so the junior folks would have two bunks assigned to three people. When you got off watch you just hopped into whichever one of the two were empty (and it may still be warm...thus the term "Hot Rack").
The nuke boats were a lot better with accomodations than the diesels. They retired the last diesel boat the day after I retired (I guess there just wasn't anyone left to run it).
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posted on
03/06/2012 10:44:02 AM PST
by
Retired COB
(Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
To: rlmorel
I'm sure that there are plenty of FReepers who can set me straight, but I've got a buddy who used to be a civvie contractor on the Permit-class subs.
He said that they were officially rated to "in excess of 30 knots and in excess of 300 feet". His commentary on that? "Yeah.....right."
Those were fast boats. I think that I'd rather be invisible than fast, though.
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posted on
03/06/2012 11:13:56 AM PST
by
wbill
To: Retired COB
First round was on ‘pig boats’ out of key west.(1971)
As low man and unqualed, I slept where I could. Including on a rack toredo.
Went to Norfolk and joined the nuclear navy.
Skipjack,finback,etc
Buck rogers stuff
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posted on
03/06/2012 11:33:36 AM PST
by
maine yankee
(I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
To: Retired COB
By the way it was with full respect. You’ve done things most of us probably couldn’t imagine, and know things that are still classified. It is an honor. God bless.
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posted on
03/06/2012 12:47:51 PM PST
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: wbill
Exactly. We have (or had) pretty good boats...I’d still take ours if I had to fight in a sub, as long as the crew came with it...:)
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posted on
03/06/2012 1:21:56 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
To: houeto
If that is, indeed CGI, I want to check out both the modeling and rendering apps!
BTW, the only thing "hokey" I see is the waterline. Water wets things -- and water with waves never shows a straight line interface...
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posted on
03/06/2012 6:14:09 PM PST
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: TXnMA
If that is, indeed CGI, I want to check out both the modeling and rendering apps! Me too. I did a doubletake when I saw that.
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posted on
03/07/2012 8:26:18 AM PST
by
houeto
(Mitt Romney - A Whiter Shade of FAIL)
To: Lancey Howard
Actually “defence” is the correct “English” spelling.
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posted on
03/07/2012 8:55:16 AM PST
by
ravager
To: Osage Orange
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07/22/2016 8:47:02 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Fear is the mind killer.)
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