I was pondering that myself...maybe an upgrade to the lateral sonar?

I wonder how the mod will affect performance?More drag and disrupted flow around the sail=less speed,more of a pitching moment in turns?

All have already been done :up: (and i dont mean for films or songs either)

Plus other colours tooo.....

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/769/camsubs3sm.jpg

Like this?

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0863202.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0842311.jpg
(Grrrr... just copy and paste that link. I'm too lazy to upload it someplace else...)

Do you mean these?

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/lesrae/sub3(sun).jpg

If so then they're not new - all of the boats have them, they're related to the cooling system as I remember it.

Another example:

http://www.baesystems.com/programmes...es/15hires.jpg

*Stares at the pic* Are those Obies? :huh:

:up: :up:

Both along side in HMS Dolphin (or what was :nope: :nope: )

i think its a good idea, even when moderatly deep during daylight the traditional black sub is visible, so if blue is better at disguising the sub then so be it.and unless the paint is luminescent it still wont be visible at night.

they are built to be unnoticed and deadly not to win design contests.

trying something new :up:

Wait there are two there! I didn't notice the one to the right, damn that S*hit works! :rotfl:

Wasn't those repaints done for the 1st Gulf War in 91? :hmm:

Actually theres 3 in that pic ;)

Yep, they where painted like that for use in the Gulf

yup... a lot better than Blue... but from a plane in the ocean, one of the subs at periscope depth would a lot easier to notice... especially in the clear waters that the pic of the 688 was taken...

ahhh, on second thought, if the bottom was sandy, maybe not...

--Mike

what? you cant see the ones that cleverly painted as a row of small sailing boats?

Ohkay, I never thought I'd be playing a game of 'Where's Wally?' with Oberons :hmm: I can clearly see two there...but the third?

Anyway, back to this blue paint scheme...didn't the Chinese do that with their Xia...only IMHO they got the paint scheme too bright and made it even more noticable.


EDIT: (Aaaah, if you count HMS Dolphin then that's three :up: )

Bill, TLAM, thanks for the pics. :up:

Simply hilarious. :-j

Here is a link to a pink one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Petticoat

I like the way the disruptive camo on teh Obies makes it look like it is melting into the water like wax. especially the Obie on the right, look at the light green camon at the water edge.

Sorry hadn't seen the pics of the T-Boat from the starboard, only the port and someone one another board hadmentioned both sides. Must have been talking about the stuff on the hull.


I do wonder what that stuff on the sail is though.

I found this picture that shows Trafalgar at the fleet review last summer with the same mod.
http://www.ajaxnetphoto.com/recent/0...s/page_30.html
Unfortunately the image is copyright protected but you can see the item of interest.

Heres a couple more shots of HMS Opposum for you Oberon :up:

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/4837/opposum9hy.jpg
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/7522/opposum27ka.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...guazado2ae.jpg

Here is half a pink submarine, cant find the one of the Romeo that is all pink :oops: :cry: