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Originally Posted by Sub Sailor
The United States Navy Sub Force has always, since I have been in, used greater than 25 knots and greater than 400 feet. Even though you Can pick up many publications that provide fairly accurate figures.It only recently that we started putting hull numbers on, used to be we had temporary ones we would hang in home port.Ron Banks MMCM(SS), USN(Ret)
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Used to be, all one could say in unclassified forums is "faster than 20 knots, deeper than 400 feet." We used to joke on my boat (USS Nautilus) that they needed to add the word "barely".
Recently the Navy revised the guidance to 800 feet and 25 knots. But everyone knows from reading the newspapers that subs actually can go twice as deep and twice as fast.
