Sunday, March 18, 2018

Da! Iz cold, Komrade!


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  1. The Russians are seriously F-ed up and I think that's because the whole place is either above the Arctic Circle, or it's so cold that you feel like it's above the Arctic Circle.

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  2. Okay, dumb question number 57....When in the movies you see the capt looking through the periscope.....where is he located? In that conning tower or right below the tower?
    Seriously.....ever since I was a kid; I've always wondered where the heck all of the "stuff" is in a sub. But my very serious claustrophobia won't let me find out!!!
    Oh and the windows in that conning tower.....how thick is that glass?

    Steve

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    1. All compartments in a submarine are located with the body to maintain structural integrity. The conning tower is actually pretty much empty except for access tubes for the crew to get up to the weather deck and in the case of soviet submarines, the protected weather deck inside the conning tower. The weather decks are only manned when the sub is surfaced as the conning tower is not pressurized. The periscopes, electronic cables, and snorkels have their own watertight access tubes running up through the conning tower into the mast or wherever they need to go.

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  3. You look through the traditional periscopes down in the top level of the cylindrical part of the pressure hull, the so-called "people tank" inside. In US submarines this is the control room/attack center. Don't know how other navies do it but probably the same, it just works.

    This is the same place where periscopes are viewed/used on modern submarines today, but nowadays I think all of the navies are using non-penetrating "photonics masts" that don't physically penetrate the pressure hull. With these, the periscope is basically a video camera and you just feed the signal inside. They still view it in the control room/attack center in the same place as before (top level) but since it's a video signal, you can run that all through the boat and watch it anywhere.

    The Russian sub in the picture is a circa 1970s-1980s boat that almost certainly has a traditional, penetrating periscope.

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