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Originally Posted by Castout
Hmm only an idiot would want to buy a book that costs $800.00 that clearly stated that it's intended for idiots.
First the book mocks your intelligence then you confirm it by buying the book at $800.00? :rotfl:I'll pass.
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I'm feeling very lucky that I bought that book while it was still priced reasonably (read, at least less than US$100, a LOT less).
Anyway, IMO the book says a lot about American submariner(s), and for at least some of it, I hope for the US Navy's sake that "submariner" will be without the "s". For example, the sheer percentage dedicated to the reactor can't help but bring up memories of "Rickoverized" criticisms - the priorities of the average American sub officer...
As for his anecdote about their sub careening past a Russian submarine due to a gross operator error. He
knows that there is little chance of the Soviet sub not hearing him, but when it doesn't immediately try and ram, he actually concludes that they somehow didn't. Apparently, this "Dmitri" was dumb.
I don't know, but based on the information provided, I can't help but think of this alternate scenario on the Soviet Vcitor:
BCh-7 officer: Comrade Commander, I have a target. American submarine, coming out of our shadow zone.
Commander: Damned American acoustic advantage! Did you get a print of him?
Bch-7 officer: Yes, Comrade, we have him on tape. Thanks to him we have a beautiful noiseprint of an American
Sturgeon class submarine through its acceleration and deceleration cycle.
BCh-1: Comrade Commander, I have plotted an evasive course.
Commander: Watch officer, Execute the Evasive Drill.
Deputy Division Commander: Negative. Stay on your original course and speed. Remember, young Sergei, the American submariner is blessed with good hydroacoustic equipment and even better measures for reducing their physical acoustical field. However, they, not being good Marxist-Leninists, are cursed with their capitalist, subjectivist thought pattern. Therefore, if we stay our original course, the Americans will probably chew out whoever made that error, BUT they will think that they were undetected and continue to track us at their typical, dangerously close ranges, right in the supposed safety of our shadow zone of acoustical illumination. This gives us an excellent solution regarding the Target's Elements of Motion.
Commander: I understand, Senior Chief. (turns) BCh-3 will set up two TEST torpedoes for firing into the shadow zone of acoustical illumination. Adjust their initial courses so they cover our baffles from 1-4000 yards. That should be enough to cover the likely zone the American will be.
Zampolit: And that's why Communism will prevail.
DDO: That's good, Commander. Keep learning little lessons like this up the rest of this patrol and when we get back I'll recommend you for Independent Command. Then I'll be in your hair a bit less.