Downloaded for very near future viewing. The 763 boat - USS Santa Fe (a 32-year-old 688i) for some reason is not pictured on the book..... The 1500+ comments in the UT video pretty much tell the tale. ALSO noteworthy is the fact that Dave (a Canoe-U alum) didn't screen for flag. He cared more for his crew's careers than he did for his own (Navy) career.....
I was impressed that torpedo rooms were not in the front and back. They launched them so the body of the ship (boat?) blocked the sound from the target. I suspect the wire is by now fiber with something like Kevlar sheath. Nice tech! Bob Wilson
It's more like they put the sonar, and the VLS in the bow, and the engineering spaces take up all the room back aft. Flooding the tubes down and launching the fish will generate a significant transient (human made sound) and the '48 generates noise even on a stalking profile - but if you're close enough to hear one....
Here you go! One of the latest boats in the water...... It's going to be a good year for the Silent Service! USS Massachusetts is SSN-798 The 799 boat (Idaho) is also in commission as of April making 26 boats in the class with Arkansas (SSN-800) and Utah (SSN-801) rounding out the Block-4 boats. The next sub-type (pun nearly unintended) will be the Block V Virginia class beginning with the 802 boat - USS Oklahoma. Keep your eye on that one. -that's all I'm saying AND all I know..... "....While later Block V submarines (SSN-803 and beyond) will be extended to 460 feet by adding the Virginia Payload Module (VPM) amidships, the SSN-802 retains the original length of the earlier Block I–IV Virginia-class boats."
This guy deserves his own thread..... A ring knocker (USNA alum) a nuke and an LDS follower, but probably one of the best boat vids I've seen. VERY few nits to pick here....
The more I learn about submariners (fast-attack or nuke, esp older boats)... the more I'm fascinated with the job. Grandfather was a fisherman who died at sea -- probably part of why I don't get seasick, but also don't like being on or in the drink very long
Can confirm........that it's an excellent read. Sadly, some fishers of fish actually died during the Cold wah by submarines dragging them down by their nets. They had gotten got rid of those old Type-11 celestial scopes before I blundered into the programme for the very REASON that it was getting dangerous to be hanging out with a periscope sticking out of the water for an hour or so. Also sadly, two of our boats claimed post WW2 Japanese shipping tonnage - the first-ever boomer - George Washington (SSBN-571) boat and Greenville (SSN-772) The Washington was almost certainly on strategic patrol and failed to render aid after the collision and two people died. At least two USN ossifers had their careers ended and the US admitted liability and compensated the families and probably the shipping company for the hull loss. The Greenville killed 9 people in 2000 because of the Hunt for Red October movie. The boat was in a marked submarine operating area off Hawaii showing off with civilians (meaning, probably politicians) aboard the boat. They failed to notice that the Ehime Maru a Japanese high school fisheries training ship, was hanging out in the op area. The "all too predictable" tragedy ensued. I do not remember what happened to the boat's skipper. There was talk of jailing him and some of the others involved- but the USN doesn't use her SSNs as a billion dollar roller coaster for Congress Critters these days - and skippers are encouraged NOT to try for the 'EMBT Blow' photos that they all suddenly wanted for their "I Love Me" walls. Like the man said in the video.... They used to name submarines after fish, but as it turns out? Fish don't vote.
