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jim

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Now That's funny, I don't care where you're from ..... :lol: .

BF
 
I would love to know how many knots they got that piece of tin up to. Guess the captain was serious when he said hard to the starboard.

Jim, is that off the powerpoint "Things you don't see on CNN."
 
Pat,

It is from a powerpoint presentation that was e-mailed to me. I can send it to you if you PM me your e-mail address.

jim
 
Here's the rest of the story ......

That huge barge (carrier) is capable of +42 knots. That's haulin a** for a ship that size. But in an emergency, it can come to a full STOP in not much more than it's own length. The props are not only adjustable, they're reversible. For that reason everything on that ship is secured (tied down) when not in use.

Current atomic submarines are capable of in excess of 85 knots UNDERWATER. A knot is a mile and an 1/8th.

God bless the U.S.A.

BF
 
big feather":22epyj7h said:
Current atomic submarines are capable of in excess of 85 knots UNDERWATER. A knot is a mile and an 1/8th.
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85 x 1.125 = 96 5/8 miles per hour.

there must be a typo there.
 
No typo Matt. I can't tell you how I know that, but it's true .....

The next time you see on the news a sub dispatched to somewhere like the Persian Gulf, watch to see when they arrive. Amazing.

K.
 
Jim - Does it several artillery shots with the projectile in the photos. I might have it, cause the picture of the carrier is the same.

Big - HOLY COW - are you serious. No wonder that poor ensign was killed this last summer when they hit an submerged island with one of the subs. I knew they could cruise in excess of 50 knots underwater. And those poor boys in WW2 pushed it to get them at 20 underwater (so I was told). Apparently those props are super secret on those subs.
 
Pat,

It has a couple of artillary shots off of cruisers or battle ships, but no projectiles. It has a variety of military shots including aircraft, space craft, and a great picture of Raquel Welsh in an Uncle Sam costume. Now everyone will want it huh?

jim
 
marshmaster pat":16s98uc2 said:
Guess the captain was serious when he said hard to the starboard.
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He must have been kidding, they are turning port :P
 
Pat, the propeller blades on a nuclear sub look more like a fan than a prop (there are ten of them), and they're curved in a scimitar shape sort of like a "Q" blade Sensenich only more so ..... and for the same reason. They get big bite, but don't make a lot of 'sound' doing it.

The subs are carried two miles out to sea from drydock by tugs, and then they're cut loose and start their own propulsion. From two miles out they create six foot rollers against the bulkheads on shore.

Yea, you could say they've got some push ...... :shock: .

BF
 
I've been spear fishing on scuba under the bouys of Port Canaveral. Once a sub came in. A loooooong boomer type. No tugs. it just glided by. I'm getting the feeling the only tugging going on is on our legs! 100 mph submerged??!! Imagine the "bugs" it gets on the windshield!!!!!! :lol:

Posted this photo last August of a sub prop.... wondering if similar technology could be used to make a near silent airboat prop. Note the pitch - it spins like a house fan.... TOWARD the points... not away from them.

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This is an impressive chunk of steel!!!!

matt.
 
Hey mood just call em up and tell em we need the autocad dwg file and then we can shrink it down and make a mold from it and we in business.
 
So what you are saying is that the prop manufactures should check into the design of the subs props. To gain thrust and reduce the sound???
I'm gonna get a helmet to go with that new prop.
But if it works it would or could be grate.
 
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