A Submarine procedure question.

[1Patriotofmany]

Originally Posted by KaleunMarco

you need to read Red Star Rogue.
scares the bejeesus out of me every time i read it.
probably about as scary as Enemy of the State except it is real life and not hollywood.

That's the boat the CIA retrieved a little part of unfortunately, with the glomar explorer. I have an excellent book on the whole thing from building the ship to the details of the claws failure and the subterfuge of retrieving nodules from the bottom..... Can't remember the name offhand. But thanks for the book recommend, just ordered it.

[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by 1Patriotofmany

That's the boat the CIA retrieved a little part of unfortunately, with the glomar explorer. I have an excellent book on the whole thing from building the ship to the details of the claws failure and the subterfuge of retrieving nodules from the bottom..... Can't remember the name offhand. But thanks for the book recommend, just ordered it.

project azorian is one, however i cannot find the other one in my library.

yes, red star rogue is unnerving. i remember that time period...so much was happening in '68. it is amazing that we made it to 1969.

[Kapitan]

It would depend on the navy your writing about for example the procedure on crimson time is fairly accurate for the USN but its a completely different procedure for the Royal Navy.

The RN doesn't use the PAL codes although some elements of the USN procedures are present such as "set condition 1SQ" (depending on launch type will depend on what comes next).

Theres a set routine including coming to depth and commencing hovering, the call to action stations missile and a procedure to check the letter of last resort ect.

[ShotgunFeline]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

It would depend on the navy your writing about for example the procedure on crimson time is fairly accurate for the USN but its a completely different procedure for the Royal Navy.

The RN doesn't use the PAL codes although some elements of the USN procedures are present such as "set condition 1SQ" (depending on launch type will depend on what comes next).

Theres a set routine including coming to depth and commencing hovering, the call to action stations missile and a procedure to check the letter of last resort ect.

It's taking place on board a Soviet sub (1980's era). I've been doing some reading on what they use as a state of readiness as they don't have DEFCON or the UK's very interestingly named BIKINI - "British Imperial Kinetic Integrated Networked Information," (Someone must have been having a laugh when they came up with that). The Soviet one from what I have found so far just seems to be a state of readiness from 1-4, with 1 being peacetime and 4 being at war.


Back on the track though, the reason I referenced the procedure from Crimson Tide was that within this short story, during that announcement I wanted to portray some of the control rooms reactions as it is being issued. So that when the crew hear what state they are at, I can drill into their expressions and whatnot.



As it's not easy to find and based on the previous posts, I'm thinking of tweaking the announcement so the Captain would be saying something along the lines of (Very roughly so far) "Set condition 4 and prepare for missile launch". With a bit more detail and a scripted approach to it

[Kapitan]

Originally Posted by ShotgunFeline

It's taking place on board a Soviet sub (1980's era). I've been doing some reading on what they use as a state of readiness as they don't have DEFCON or the UK's very interestingly named BIKINI - "British Imperial Kinetic Integrated Networked Information," (Someone must have been having a laugh when they came up with that). The Soviet one from what I have found so far just seems to be a state of readiness from 1-4, with 1 being peacetime and 4 being at war.


Back on the track though, the reason I referenced the procedure from Crimson Tide was that within this short story, during that announcement I wanted to portray some of the control rooms reactions as it is being issued. So that when the crew hear what state they are at, I can drill into their expressions and whatnot.



As it's not easy to find and based on the previous posts, I'm thinking of tweaking the announcement so the Captain would be saying something along the lines of (Very roughly so far) "Set condition 4 and prepare for missile launch". With a bit more detail and a scripted approach to it

There is documentary done on youtube called mission invisible from 2004 its based onboard the typhoon TK20 and you can see some of the procedure of missile launch there.

There is also one on combat approved that shows the launch procure on a delta III