Swedes sink USS Reagan

[jssailem]

Virtually in war games....
https://www.popularmechanics.com/mi...75/gotland-class-sub-ronald-reagan-war-games/
Boy this is an interesting development.

 

[dlochner]

Yes it is. It is a never ending game, once someone develops a defense, someone else figures out how to get through it.

 

[jssailem]

The video gives a great explanation of old technology. The Sterling Engine.

 

[JamesG161]

You might like this movie on that theme...

"Down Periscope"

It was fun comedy.

Arrrhhhgggg...
Pirate Jim...

 

[JamesG161]

The Sterling Engine.

Where does the diesel exhaust go, for 2 weeks?
I assume the Liquid O2 is for the burn.
Jim...

 

[Benny17441]

Hang a Genoa from the periscope and don't worry much about noise.

 

[uncledom]

@JamesG161 that is a dessert island pick. Great movie.

 

[Will Gilmore]

I toured a WWII sub in Baltimore and remember thinking, with a good machine shop, there wasn't a piece of equipment onboard that any machinist couldn't make, other than the batteries. The attending veteran in the galley agreed. So much has changed in such a short time.

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

[jssailem]

Yes Will. There were s lot of machineshop parts. Some special welds. And also sorts of things that can go wrong.

The Swedish boat was simple but effective.

 

[Gene Neill]

Virtually in war games....
https://www.popularmechanics.com/mi...75/gotland-class-sub-ronald-reagan-war-games/
Boy this is an interesting development.

GASP!

You called them "war games"???

 

[Roadking Larry]

You might like this movie on that theme...

"Down Periscope"

It was fun comedy.

Arrrhhhgggg...
Pirate Jim...

One of the best and most realistic modern submarine movies ever made.

 

[Roadking Larry]

Hang a Genoa from the periscope and don't worry much about noise.

Ben done, kind of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_R-14_(SS-91)