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Originally Posted by gAiNiAc
You have a picture of the bow because the torpedo tubes are amidships just forward of the sail.
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If you were talking about any newer boat with a spherical sonar array in the bow you would be right. However the Skipjacks and all the boomers before the Ohio class still had their torpedo tubes in the bow.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0858820.jpg
You can see the torpedo tubes right on the bow in this picture of the USS Scamp which was another Skipjack class.