Cool experience - Ohio Class?

[Mike_NC]

Originally Posted by sailpower

Quote a few boat guys here. Interesting.

Let's post our boats.

I was a Nav ET.

USS Thomas A. Edison SSBN 610 Blue, yard time plus 6 patrols. Finished up as instrutor at Advanced Sub School, Groton.

7 years total.

When I left active duty, I was a LT and the Damage Control Assistant (DCA) on USS John C. Calhoun SSBN 630 Blue. Retired Naval Reserves.

I believe the newer nuclear subs use natural circulation for reactor coolant flow and are very quiet. When listening passively for opposing submarines, the typical noise you pick up is rotating machinery at some particular frequency. If the frequency is stable (say powered from a regulated AC power source), it is a tool to monitor the movements of the target based on Doppler shift principals.

[sailorboy1]

Originally Posted by keith4001r

True dat!
USS Skipjack, SSN 585
Long time ago.

hey I know that boat, I was on Scamp SSN588

[keith4001r]

Originally Posted by sailorboy1

hey I know that boat, I was on Scamp SSN588

Yup, sister ships for sure.

[Pete7]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

Like me, for some reason I have It in my mind that the capability of them being terribly fast is there, assuming they are deep enough.

They can be, but even a reactor has limits before it needs a refill, so you don't really want to go zooming about everywhere because adding more atoms is tricky and very very expensive.

Originally Posted by a64pilot

Are their Diesel boats in the US still? I can see how maybe nothing can be quieter than a battery powered boat, and noise is a large part of stealth?

Yes there are, just not flagged US The Aussies with super diesel electric ran rings around NATO surface fleets during one lot of ex off Hawaii.

[FilBrown]

That's a Russian submarine isn't it? 😊

[Peregrine1983]

Originally Posted by FilBrown

That's a Russian submarine isn't it? 😊

I found this yesterday and laughed like hell. "Let's go get drunk." Perfect reaction.

Russian fisherman see NUCLEAR SUBMARINE surfacing near their dinghy* | Daily Mail Online

[sailpower]

Originally Posted by FilBrown

That's a Russian submarine isn't it? ��

No but, hey, Russia, Russia, Russia.

Now it has to be because it's on the "news".