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.
I think Russian subs’ hulls are clad with thick rubber tiles - like ours are - to absorb enemy sonar pings and to muffle internal noise. Some of those appear to be missing.
Oscar.
ReplyDeleteIndeed is an Oscar-class.
ReplyDeletelooking at all of the divots and other surface anomalies, is it any wonder why submerged Russian subs can be heard from a long way away?
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"Red October " ??
ReplyDeleteFatty? Somehow had to make space for the onboard sauna & spa.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like an 80° turn in one boat length. That's impressive.
ReplyDeleteI think Russian subs’ hulls are clad with thick rubber tiles - like ours are - to absorb enemy sonar pings and to muffle internal noise. Some of those appear to be missing.
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ReplyDeleteImagine what the guy who invented the sub would think if he saw that.
ReplyDeleteI think he would have seen an airplane and wonder why he'd been messing around with a subsurface contraption.
DeleteMore airplanes in the sea than subs in the air.
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