"Andrei, you've lost another submarine?"
Posted on 01/03/2012 9:08:42 AM PST by SmithL
Revealing photos of the nuclear powered submarine “Yekaterinburg” from before and during last week’s fire clearly indicate that the flames come from inside the torpedo-compartment.
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That’s not a torpedo compartment, that’s a magnetohydrodynamic drive.
Some of the later photos seem to show the ship semi-immersed in water, as if they started to flood and sink the dry dock to flood the involved compartment in order to extinguish the fire.
Apparently it’s not uncommon for a ship underway to seal off and flood a compartment/s where there is fire, if they are able to abandon all crew from it first. In a real emergency, crew arriving at the escape hatch too late may be out of luck.
If you’re going to have a fire on board, ashore is the place to have it.
If they had a few Skvalls loaded, this could have been quite embarrassing... not to mention exciting!
I noticed one of the Firefighters hosing down the starboard torp port. If she was loaded they likely would have evacuated the area PDQ and let her go. Too bad for that destroyer(?) moored next to her.
It states that the fire burned for 20hrs.
If true, I think the sub is a write off. How do you determine the strength of a pressure hull after its been heated like that? Of course it depends on the nature and size of the fire during that period.
Since I was born, I’ve lived close to Russia.
They can’t do nothing right.
We Swedes drink vodka too, so drinking habits is no excuse.
The race you need to engage in, wishing to control territory of today, is stealth warfare.
Check out the link featuring our subs below.
Seriously, what could you do?
USA or Russia could take out Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö within hours, using nuclear missiles, but you’ll not be able to locate and kill off our subs - and believe me, we do have hard hitting missiles..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1UPG7XwhWw
The only thing in there to burn is the insulation on the electrical wiring, probably would produce more killing smoke than heat.
Mike
Simple, Comrade. (1)Take her down to 1,000 meters. (2)Check for leaks. (3)Weld patches over same.
Anyway, this embarrassing incident should see an end to Vodka-Liquid Oxygen torpedo fuel. It tastes terrible, causing many morale problems and it can ooze its way into the smoking compartment and galley.
Some day, the Russkis will publish their (a) accident rate, and (b) just how many of their nuclear and other subs they have lost and where. Maybe we should get Greenpeace on that.
LOL STFU
Back in the `60s, USS Sargo had an in-port oxygen fire that cooked off a couple of warheads. They dove in the channel with the hatch open to put out the fire.
"Andrei, you've lost another submarine?"
Well!I guess they can’t blame that on a faulty torpedo.
The Russians need to improve their construction practices.Though I guess we even make mistakes every now and then.
Ping
I get that they partially flooded the drydock to put out the fire meaning tens of thousands of gallons pouring through the 20’ hole in the side. Someone back me up ... in the last couple of photos is the boat laying on its starboard side, meaning it rolled when they pumped out the dock? That is one screwed up boat.
Sweden may have “hard hitting” missiles, but no nuclear missiles. I noticed in documents released by the Polish Defense deparment after the break up of the Soviet Union, that the Soviet plan for war in Europe assumed that every major country in Europe *not* armed with nuclear missiles would suffer a nuclear attack, including all Warsaw Pact members except Russia and all European NATO members except France and Britian. The major neutrals, including Finland and Sweden were on the hit list. The Soviets viewed you as either in the way, or a potential threat.
I remember in the 1980’s when a Soviet Submarine was trapped in Swedish waters, Reagan’s Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger, made a very well publicized trip to Sweden. They must have liked what he said, because the Swedes proceded to hold on tight, until they got an apology from the Soviets.
To paraphrase George Orwell, the fact that countries without nuclear weapons live at the sufferance or under the aegis of countries who do have them is too obvious to dispute.
Too late. I was reading it at the same time you were.
P.S. It's above zero. You should make the kids walk the dog.
I guess fire and rocket-powered torpedoes don’t mix well?
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