Typhoon-Class sub pics

Platapus · 10-02-10, 12:30 PM

That is one big boat!

I think it was a good design for its mission, but that's all it was good for.

I still get a kick out of those pictures. 25 years ago we would have killed for those pictures. Now they are on the internets tubes.

twas ever thus..

Takeda Shingen · 10-02-10, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

25 years ago we would have killed for those pictures. Now they are on the internets tubes.

So very true.

Legionary74 · 10-02-10, 12:39 PM

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Jimbuna · 10-02-10, 03:41 PM

They were veritable mammoths but always lacked in keeping up with US technology.

Oberon · 10-02-10, 04:12 PM

Well, it helped that IIRC the SOP during wartime would have been for them to sit in the noisy Arctic ice until the order came to launch. Not the easiest of places to track boomers, and there would have probably have been an Akula or Victor III sitting nearby to spice things up.
Either that or they've have bastioned them and put them in the protection of a minefield, but I suspect they would have done that more with the Deltas.

Takeda Shingen · 10-02-10, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

.....the Deltas.

The late Deltas were absolutely superior to the Typhoons.

10-02-10, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

The late Deltas were absolutely superior to the Typhoons.

What do you base that opinion on?

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,373 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	That is one big boat! I think it was a good design for its mission, but that's all it was good for. I still get a kick out of those pictures. 25 years ago we would have killed for those pictures. Now they are on the internets tubes. twas ever thus.. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,584 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	They were veritable mammoths but always lacked in keeping up with US technology. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Well, it helped that IIRC the SOP during wartime would have been for them to sit in the noisy Arctic ice until the order came to launch. Not the easiest of places to track boomers, and there would have probably have been an Akula or Victor III sitting nearby to spice things up. Either that or they've have bastioned them and put them in the protection of a minefield, but I suspect they would have done that more with the Deltas.