And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
USS Pogy, SSN 647. Ya gotta love the Navy. They name fast attacks after fish. Pogy is another word for Surfperch. Boy would USS Surfperch look good on the shoulder of your dress blues.
I don't know if it is USS Pogy, but it is a SSN 637 class and not a SSN 688 class. SSN 688 class fairwater planes don't rotate to the "under ice position" (90 degrees). I'm qualified on 637's and 688's.
I wonder how hard it is to punch through a foot or so of ice with a sub, and whether a "running start" underwater is needed. That would be so cool to do, but perhaps more so to be a passing eskimo or Norwegian, out on the ice all alone except for the sled dogs, and suddenly see that thing smash up through the ice.
What boat? Looks like a 688 by the front of the sail.
ReplyDeleteWhat boat? Looks like a 688 by the front of the sail.
ReplyDeleteWhat boat? Looks like a 688 by the front of the sail.
ReplyDeleteUSS Pogy, SSN 647. Ya gotta love the Navy. They name fast attacks after fish. Pogy is another word for Surfperch. Boy would USS Surfperch look good on the shoulder of your dress blues.
ReplyDeleteBut pogy leads to "Pogy bait"...
DeleteI don't know if it is USS Pogy, but it is a SSN 637 class and not a SSN 688 class. SSN 688 class fairwater planes don't rotate to the "under ice position" (90 degrees).
ReplyDeleteI'm qualified on 637's and 688's.
I wonder how hard it is to punch through a foot or so of ice with a sub, and whether a "running start" underwater is needed. That would be so cool to do, but perhaps more so to be a passing eskimo or Norwegian, out on the ice all alone except for the sled dogs, and suddenly see that thing smash up through the ice.
DeleteYou are correct. I was confused by lack of obvious U/I sonar in later (most) 637's, and the seemingly thin sail.
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