Flood tubes?

[Ulven]

I seem to remember a scene from The Hunt For Red October, where USS Dallas and Red October have sighter each other and Jack Ryan is trying to communicate with Cpt Ramius in order to find out his intentions. They seem to make a big fuzz about torpedo doors being open, but tubes not flooded. I belive Ramius opens the outer doors, to show his crew that he's taking the threat seriously, but not flooding the tubes, not to provoce Dallas.

Yeah, I know, it's a movie, and not a very realistic one, but it's the best I've got to contribute with!

[Sailor Steve]

Got it! Yep, it's flood first, then open inner doors.
http://www.maritime.org/fleetsub/tubes/chap1.htm#1B

[Kumando]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Got it! Yep, it's flood first, then open inner doors.
http://www.maritime.org/fleetsub/tubes/chap1.htm#1B

One more thing missing from the game , could it be moded?

[danurve]

Originally Posted by Ulven

I seem to remember a scene from The Hunt For Red October, where USS Dallas and Red October have sighter each other and Jack Ryan is trying to communicate with Cpt Ramius in order to find out his intentions. They seem to make a big fuzz about torpedo doors being open, but tubes not flooded. I belive Ramius opens the outer doors, to show his crew that he's taking the threat seriously, but not flooding the tubes, not to provoce Dallas.

Yeah, I know, it's a movie, and not a very realistic one, but it's the best I've got to contribute with!

It was actually the other way around.
Flood tube(s), do not open outer doors.
The Cpt. of the Dallas later calling the Russian Cpt a "cool customer" of sorts. Accuracy of hollywood always being questionable, as well as the spelling of quotes.

[Ulven]

Originally Posted by danurve

It was actually the other way around.
Flood tube(s), do not open outer doors.
The Cpt. of the Dallas later calling the Russian Cpt a "cool customer" of sorts. Accuracy of hollywood always being questionable, as well as the spelling of quotes.

Oh, darn. Well, well, thanks for straightening things up!

This probably was not included as part of the game because there is no game benefit to flooding your tubes only. Yes, that was necessary prior to opening the tube caps and outer doors, but I'm guessing that the developers looked at the 'Q' key as a combined 'flood-tube-then-open-door' scenario. Possibly also why there is a small delay for the door to open: a few seconds are needed to flood the tube before opening the outer door.

[Steppenwolf]

Originally Posted by Albrecht Von Hesse

This probably was not included as part of the game because there is no game benefit to flooding your tubes only. Yes, that was necessary prior to opening the tube caps and outer doors, but I'm guessing that the developers looked at the 'Q' key as a combined 'flood-tube-then-open-door' scenario. Possibly also why there is a small delay for the door to open: a few seconds are needed to flood the tube before opening the outer door.

That's correct. Back when the game first came out, there was a comment from one of the devs, in an article or forum post, that said the "Q" command was a combination of flooding the tubes and opening the doors. Unfortunately, this was a long time back and I have no idea where I saw it.

[Lovro]

As far as I know in RL it goes: preshurising, flooding and then opening the muzzle doors.

[AVGWarhawk]

It would be neat but just an extra step we do not need in the heat of battle!!!!