Posted on 01/08/2005 3:19:47 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
You can operate that ship with 24 or so watchstanders.
I think we may have sailed together...were you on the 654?
Shut up nub...;)
Thanks Doohickey....good information.
I've been waiting for a submarine thread, because I've become curious these past two weeks....I am wondering what the effect would be on a submerged sub in the path of a tsunami; I understand they can travel at hundreds of miles per hour underwater until they approach a land mass.
you cant ping active sonar all day, though, that would tell everyone where you were
They would be running on the charts for bearing
656 & 619 -could know you...
Can't argue with you there.
654, 579, and 712...tad to the 578 for a while
They're already under water (hopefully deep). Maybe they could be lifted in their depth, who knows? But they ride out hurricanes no problem.
navet god to you buddy ;)
Pardon this old Marine, but ust how does bottom sounding SONAR remain ELINT free??
Cant everyone and their brother hear it, too?
A Brief History Of US/Russian submarine collisions: source (scroll down)
1961 USS Swordfish (SSN-579) is on a spy mission in Soviet waters when a Soviet sub surfaces underneath it.
196? A US sub, possibly USS Skipjack, on a spy mission in Soviet waters, collides with a destroyer. Finally made public in a New York Times article in 1975.
July 1965. USS Medregal rams a Greek freighter.
March 1966. USS Barbel rams a freighter near North Vietnam.
December 1967. USS George C. Marshall (SSBN-654) is grazed by a Russian sub.
October 9, 1968. This appears to be the historical precedent for the Kursk sinking. A Russian sub operating normally collided with an unknown sub in the Barents sea, leaving a sizable hole in the Russian sub. Russian intelligence notes the arrival of a damaged sub in a Norwegian port a few days later.
November 1969. USS Gato's sail hits the hull of a soviet sub.
March 14, 1970. USS Sturgeon bashes her sonar dome against a Russian sub's sail.
June 1970. USS Tautog is rammed by Black Lila. It is erroneously assumed at the time that Black Lila sank.
March 1971. An unnamed US sub operating 12 miles off of the Soviet coast collides with a Russian sub. Reported in the New York Times in 1975.
Mid-1971. USS Dace hits a Russian sub in the Mediterranean.
Late 1971 or early 1972. USS Puffer is trailing a Soviet sub when the Soviet sub unexpectedly dives, bumping into Puffer.
March 1974. USS Pintado rams a Soviet missile boat while on a spy mission in Soviet waters near Petropavlovsk. Reported in the San Diego Evening Tribune in 1975.
November 3rd, 1974. USS James Madison hits an unknown Russian Victor class attack sub in the North Sea. Reported by columnist Jack Anderson.
1981. HMS Sceptre is trailing a Russian sub and rear-ends it.
October 1986. USS Augusta, while testing a new computer sonar system to make detecting enemy subs easier, rams a Soviet sub. The Augusta claims they rammed a Delta class. Others report it was a Yankee missile boat that subsequently sank.
December 24, 1986. HMS Splendid and a Soviet sub were trying to dodge out of each other's way when they collided. HMS Splendid's towed sonar array became tangled in the other sub and was lost.
February 11, 1992. USS Baton Rouge hits a Soviet sub near Murmansk. For the first time, and in response to Yeltsin's demands, the US Navy publicly acknowledges the collision.
March 20, 1993. USS Grayling with a Russian sub in the Barent's Sea.
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Considering that Guam has become a hotspot for Chinese sub activity lately, it could happen.
(please, no seamen jokes)
yes you can.
Husband was on 6377, 769 & 743
With some of the missions we did, this topic actually came up during torpedo room bull sessions.
I'd have to kill you after i told you ;)
You were on the 712? I was on the 712. 96-97.
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