Inside Russia's Nuclear-powered Typhoon-class Submarine

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adlep

adlep

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Incredible documentary. It would not be possible just 20 years ago due to a top secret nature of the Soviet/Russian nuclear sub program. But these days a German documentary movie crew got FULL access to the biggest submarine in the world.
Movie is in Russian with German dubbing with crappy English subtitles...
German dubbing gives the documentary this nice "Das Boot" vibe to it...

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqMIH3t3XEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOV8FGpjX4Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvMmmYMOrn4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kI4vgq6YcU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7r4OENexX8

So interesting, I love YT and the Internets...

Oh, and:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onpIh6nj3Zg

;)

Edit: Typhon Class sub corroding in Russian port. This is a very sad sight. Such a marvel of tech, just left to rust...
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2009/04/14/worlds-biggest-submarine/
 
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guyver01

guyver01

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brainhulk said:
marked. were these the ones with the caterpillar probulsion?
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In the novel, the Red October used a drive system consisting of long shafts cut through the hull with impellers inside them, called a tunnel drive or caterpillar drive. In the movie, the caterpillar drive was instead said to be a magnetohydrodynamic drive. In both the novel and the movie, the drive was said to be near-silent; this made the Red October a perfect platform for launching depressed-trajectory ballistic missiles at the United States.
 
adlep

adlep

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i've enjoyed the documentary. The saddest part is at the end, where the Captain of the sub comes back to his empty shack after the patrol - and no one is there to welcome him.

Overall Russian sailors come across as very nice people in this movie.
 
Brovane

Brovane

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Interesting contrast with how orderly the drill is for the preparation for a US Trident Missile submarine to go on a patrol.
 
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Acanthus

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adlep said:
i've enjoyed the documentary. The saddest part is at the end, where the Captain of the sub comes back to his empty shack after the patrol - and no one is there to welcome him.

Overall Russian sailors come across as very nice people in this movie.
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Russians in general are nice people and a very well educated populace.

Our adversarial view of them kind of clouds that image.
 
HybridSquirrel

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they get wine, chocolate, and tvs in their submarines? sounds like 5 star accomidations compared to what ive seen of us subs...
 
mafia

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The last video was kind of depressing when that one sailor came home and his wife was pissed.
 
bruceb

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Interesting, too bad it was in German and not English. Sub titles on some shots and a small 14 inch laptop were not too clear.
 
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