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.
As a non-submariner, I imagine they put the windows in because of the climate they operate in: Arctic to subarctic. As diesel subs, wouldn't they spend considerable time on surface, and the watches would be subject to some pretty miserable duty perched at the top of the sail? My experience with Soviet technology was that their equipment designs made a kind of sense, but only after one discards western-type thinking. For instance, their military machinery was clunky, slow, and very leaky and dirty - but it could burn anything approximating diesel to run, and was simple enough for most men to service it. Try that, with a western tank.
But: When Soviet-era stuff starts making sense too quickly, it's time to leave and go home.
They flood the interior of the sail, otherwise the pressure would implode those windows, so if you were enjoying the underwater view, it would be short lived, because you would be.
All these subs should be converted to homeless camps. Pack them in tight! Give them all Obama phones and little flashlights to traverse around inside. This idea should work. -Snakepit
It's ugly so it's Soviet but if it's supposed to be a sub I've never seen a sub with picture windows.
ReplyDeleteThe screen door is on the backside...
DeleteAs a non-submariner, I imagine they put the windows in because of the climate they operate in: Arctic to subarctic. As diesel subs, wouldn't they spend considerable time on surface, and the watches would be subject to some pretty miserable duty perched at the top of the sail? My experience with Soviet technology was that their equipment designs made a kind of sense, but only after one discards western-type thinking. For instance, their military machinery was clunky, slow, and very leaky and dirty - but it could burn anything approximating diesel to run, and was simple enough for most men to service it. Try that, with a western tank.
DeleteBut: When Soviet-era stuff starts making sense too quickly, it's time to leave and go home.
Scrap metal. Interesting, as one of the first things to go when (SSN668) was retired, was the sail.
ReplyDeleteOld Foxtrot class diesel boats.
ReplyDeleteGlad somebody took the time to photo it though.
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The windows in Russian subs are strange but probably quite the view at times.
ReplyDeleteThey flood the interior of the sail, otherwise the pressure would implode those windows, so if you were enjoying the underwater view, it would be short lived, because you would be.
DeleteThe windows are high in the sail. Those large pieces below are sonar projectors...
ReplyDeleteThose are the lucky subs. The unlucky ones are at the bottom of the ocean.
ReplyDeleteAll these subs should be converted to homeless camps. Pack them in tight! Give them all Obama phones and little flashlights to traverse around inside. This idea should work.
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I wonder what they are leaking into the water?
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