Astute vs Virginia

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Originally Posted by Bubblehead Nuke

You talked about RN submariners. When my boat pulled in over in that part of the world I got a tour of one of the british nuke boats. I do not recall the class but the differences in ship design were striking. While you recognize the general layout the RN boat was obviously more combat oriented. One thing I noticed hast was that they had a LOT less creature comforts. The ones they DID have seems better than ours but overall, it was more spartan and much more well, businesslike. But then again, they typically would have much less distance to go to get into the thick of things. Do brit boats do 90+ day deployments? I presume so but I never asked.

One thing that I have ALWAYS remembered was when I was in the torpedo room and one of my shipmates (a torpedoman) was talking shop with one of his RN counterparts. They were talking about putting a topedo in the water and my guy asked about the torpedo door interlocks (USN boats have a device that prevent you from opening the OUTER door unless the INNER door is closed). His comment was that if you were STUPID enough to open both the bloody doors at the same time you deserved what you got. That they did not uses the things. Bravado on the brits part? I dunno, but he shook our guy up a lot.

That and a few discussions with other crewmen did tell me a lot of their training. They do not let ANYONE stand a watchstation unless they KNOW what they are doing. They do not tolerate adequate performance. You were a top performer or you were on a surface ship.

we typically do more than 90 patrols and in most case deploy for 10-11 months away from base ports, the technology that stops outer and innner doors opening at the same time was brought in by the royal navy so yes we do have the equipment ,subs are not about comfort there about adequet living condidtions for the purpose , and having been on US subs and Royal navy subs we have far more safety equipment than any other boats and we put this safety above everything else thats why we have never lost a nuc boat the perisher course provides us with the best trained dedicated command officers and the quality of the senior and junior ratings is outstanding i have served for 19 years on valiant spartan superb splendid sceptre and resolution and i have never met a bunch of fantastic down to earth guys to work with and yes we do get out of hand on a run ashore but ut our moto is work hard play harder