Posted on 06/05/2019 7:35:24 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Clearly fake news"... There is no way sails could catch enough wind to move the sub while it is submerged... /s
Or at least the misleading titles.
Wow. I never knew we used refitted German U-boats.
The U505 is really cool!
The only reason I will ever go back to Chicago
So I did. Thanks for adding that.
Australian subs would call that distance a half deployment.
Hell, they have to travel 2500 nm just to leave territorial waters to go on overseas deployment. Then pick a couple of areas in northern asian waters, add in the return home... you're talking SSN levels of travel (n.b. we really need to stop with this non nuclear subs nonsense. Building diesel subs the size of nukes is just stupid).
I was thinking, who wrote the headline, Al Gore?
“At last count, the Bundesmarine has six attack submarines in active service.”
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Are any of these nuclear?
Nope. Not a one.
Indeed. My first viewing of Das Boot was with the subtitles, the second with dubbed in English - totally emasculated the film. There's something about Germans barking out orders in the Mother Language that does add to the experience.
Yes, the Type 212 submarine is classified as an attack boat.
I started watching the English dubbed version once. It was so bad I turned it off. Not only do you lose the sound of the original German dialog but they also chopped out all the ambient sounds so the vibe is completely wrong. One of these days I”ll watch the subtitled version all the way through.
Weren’t WW1 German subs much larger?
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