[know.your.why]

Specs say this thing does 70knots!! Is that possible for something this big?WTH do we have to counter it?

Link: Russia’s Gigantic Submarine, Belgorod, Sails For The First Time

[know.your.why]

Ok. This is a trippy story: A Deep-Diving Sub. A Deadly Fire. And Russia’s Secret Undersea Agenda. Few want to talk about how 14 sailors met their deaths on a Russian engineering marvel. Fewer still want to talk about what they were doing off Norway’s waters.

Link: OFF THE COAST OF NORWAY — There could hardly have been a more terrifying....

[steve86]

The 70 knot claim is for the torpedo.

[Gene Eric]

Cool illustration.

[caww]

[PIF]

Specs say this thing does 70knots!! WTH do we have to counter it?

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That’s almost fast enough to catch up to one of our CVNs!

Counters will be donning their pink slippers and best dresses after they recover from their free sex changes; various Aegis Destroyers will be looking for container ships to ram. So we can safely go back to sleep knowing Traitor Joe is watching over us.

[OKSooner]

Windows, on the front of the sail? Is that what those little green square thingies are?

Really?

[pepsi_junkie]

Nuclear powered torpedoes? Did they get cold fusion working?

[bagster]

Did the Russkies copy off this guy?

[Spktyr]

Yes, it’s possible. The Russians have torpedoes on the world arms market that can go 200+ knots, verifiably. We have no counterpart and no countermeasure (the program was a failure and the installations are now being removed from our carriers).

*However.* It is highly unlikely that the K-329 itself can go 70kts. It can only make about 32 knots on the surface claimed. It does not show signs of having the features or power reserves needed to drive it that fast. I’m going to say that the 70kts figure is a typo or someone got it confused with the things it deploys, like drones, missiles, torpedoes, parasite craft) which can easily go that fast.

Further, speed isn’t everything in a sub. To a certain degree, speed is noise, noise gets you killed in a combat zone. Modern subs *can* go speeds undreamed of in WW2 subs while being quieter than them, but not a silent 70kts (yet.) Those 200+ knot supercavitating torpedoes they have are *extremely* loud for a subsurface weapon and are actually rocket propelled.