The civilian XXI???
 

Kaluens,

Have an extra 80 million burning a hole in yer pocket.........???? :o

http://www.ussubs.com/submarines/phoenix.pdf

http://www.ussubs.com/submarines/phoenix_1000.php3


Come on megamillions!

Holy crap it is! D:

DAME ... :o

wasent some guy in the UK trying to do a simular thing back in 2006? He wanted to be able to explore the UKs Uboat wrecks or something, I was watching a show on it on TV

I wish I had that much....but I wouldent be buying a sub....there are two ocean liners that need saving

daaayum, id build my own uboat, and then turn it into my house :D


then i just need to make my own passport, and try to take over a small tropical island and then start Kevlandia, my own country, and this would be my protective navy!


who's in? lmfao

It's my birthday this month ! Which one of you is going to buy one for me ? :D

Imagine one of them as your home, that would be so cool. Sick of the area your living in just cruise down the coast or dive down to a corel reef. :)

Until of course some WWII enthousiast with a big motorised boat (aka Destroyer) comes and depth charges you :p :D :rotfl:

On a serious note it would be really cool :yep:

I'll see how much I've got when I open up my piggy bank. Might just have enough to purchase the one. :lol:

Who do you have to pay off to add at least ONE forward tube :ping:

I've been lusting after the Phoenix 1000 for years. Totally worth it if they can really hit the $78mil budget. Even the Seattle makes me drool a little.:rock:

Tony

Back 3 or 4 years ago, a friend at work and I tried really hard to think of any way to work the price of that boat into an NSF or ONR grant. No amount of beer led us to any enlightenment of how to finangle a budget for it. Plus, then we'd have had to share it with other people without our say, and that would suck.

My friend has since retired from academia, and works as the biologist at a venture capital bio-startup (he's one of the 3 founders) - he still talks about somehow appropriating company funds to order it built, for, errr, corporate retreats and such legitimate uses ;)

Imagine the loan payments on that sucker if you bought it!!! Monthly payments would probably be more than I make in a single year! :o

People who buy things like that don't make loan payments. They pay cash.

EDIT: But FWIW $78,000,000 for 6 years at 8.5% would be $1,386,714 per month. You'd be tacking an extra $21,842,408 in interest.

Now we know where the donations for GWX 2.0 really went ;)

Cheers,
Stephen

Remember that $78 million in 2003 dollars is now, what, about $90+ million (inflation from 2003-2008 being somehwere in the 15%-16% range)?

So don't delay - order NOW!

LOL http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3...gglebigtb9.gif

I can assure you they went to the very worthy cause of supporting SUBSIM http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2108/thumbsupkc7.gif

I don't doubt it for a minute, but I couldn't resist. :D I'm sure the subsim chaps would have been overjoyed at donations at that level.

Cheers,
Stephen

Let's build our own!

You remember that small and crude sub built by smugglers?

We'll do much better 'cause we don't use drugs!

Mine iron, make steel, beat it into shape, tool it, make the pressure hull, weld it all together, install two diesels, two electric motors, propellers, line up all the old car batteries you can find, attach rudders and dive plans, install a couple of ballast tanks, compressors, a mic on the outer hull to use as a hydrophone, an old rocking chair and gramaphone in the command room for the kaleun (me!) and the rest of your old furniture for everyone else.................

.........did I miss something?

You just KNOW that the Columbian drug lords will be buying these things left and right.

On a side note, it's probably a DAMN GOOD THING that I and my friends never built that submarine that we were planning on making or we'd probably be dead. We used to live on Lake Champlain in Burlington VT. We had gotten these old metal drums and were going to weld them together and such (We used to build stuff like motorized go carts and stuff all the time).
Anyway.. luckily what prevented us from actually doing it was that we could figure out how to make it go down, but we were never able to figure out a way to make it come back up. :rotfl:
We actually spent MONTHS of spare time experimenting and trying to design the thing !!:doh:

Lucky for us.. the Hunley II as designed by a bunch of kids between the ages of 12 and 13 never set sail and we're all still alive today.:D