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Originally Posted by I-25
jajaja had to be the french:rotfl:
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ha. I wasn't knocking the french. Just that they seem more willing to try unconvientional SSN designs like the Rubis where they used a small nuclear-electric drive or the Barracuda with a nuclear direct drive/electric drive hybrid.
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Originally Posted by Henson
The diesel has many purposes, one of which is to emergency ventilate the boat after a fire.
Blower takes forever, diesel sucks that air out in about 20 minutes. That's important when you see nothing but black smoke through your mask.
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That's interesting, how does that work? Just opening up the air intake manifold of the diesels to the cabin air and letting the engines suck the bad air out? Didn't know that...