USS Scorpion

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by pythos

The Thresher is another question mark. Why did the supposedly inferior soviet designs never have such a failure of their ballast blow systems?

Just because american subs had problem A does not entail that russian subs had to have problem A as well. As a matter of fact, soviets lost more subs to accidents than americans ever have so what's your point ?
Soviet designs were not inferior as a whole, maybe inferior as far as sonar performance is concerned, but in terms of hull engineering no way.
I mean the most interesting designs have come from them, not from the US which was far more conservative, not only in terms of hull design but also in terms of weapons loadout.