WOAH: Navy publishes first photos of damaged sub

[GTaudiophile]

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[maddogchen]

looks like my Subway sandwich after I took a bite out of it.

 

[KLin]

woah :Q

 

[notfred]

Wow, that thing must be built tough if it wasn't leaking.

 

[Zim Hosein]

The inner hull was not penetrated.

:Q

 

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

The inner hull was not penetrated.

:Q

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

The inner hull was not penetrated.

:Q

That amazes me.

 

[Indolent]

that article also says more about how it happened. The undersea mountain was not on the charts they were using.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: Indolent
that article also says more about how it happened. The undersea mountain was not on the charts they were using.

It is now

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: Indolent
that article also says more about how it happened. The undersea mountain was not on the charts they were using.

It is now

One would have thought that sonar could detect undersea mountains.

 

[Toastedlightly]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: Indolent
that article also says more about how it happened. The undersea mountain was not on the charts they were using.

It is now

One would have thought that sonar could detect undersea mountains.

Active sonar (think thing that could find it) is rarely if ever used. It will give away your position (then what is the use of a submarine?)

 

[dderidex]

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

The inner hull was not penetrated.

:Q

That amazes me.

It really makes you wonder about the survivability of a sub against a torpedo attack, though, huh? "Common knowledge" has had it that a single torpedo is sufficient to sink anything.

But....I mean, if it can handle driving straight into a mountain at 30 knots.....

And, even more amazingly, not only NOT SINK, but recall that it managed to surface and drive back to port under its own power!

 

[Toastedlightly]

Originally posted by: dderidex

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

The inner hull was not penetrated.

:Q

That amazes me.

It really makes you wonder about the survivability of a sub against a torpedo attack, though, huh? "Common knowledge" has had it that a single torpedo is sufficient to sink anything.

But....I mean, if it can handle driving straight into a mountain at 30 knots.....

And, even more amazingly, not only NOT SINK, but recall that it managed to surface and drive back to port under its own power!

I think if you read Hunt for Red Oktober, that seems to give a good spiel on sub warfare.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: dderidex

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

The inner hull was not penetrated.

:Q

That amazes me.

It really makes you wonder about the survivability of a sub against a torpedo attack, though, huh? "Common knowledge" has had it that a single torpedo is sufficient to sink anything.

But....I mean, if it can handle driving straight into a mountain at 30 knots.....

And, even more amazingly, not only NOT SINK, but recall that it managed to surface and drive back to port under its own power!

except a torpedo is going to be going the submarine speed + the torpedo speed

while being manufactured to punch a hole into a submarine and have a large explosive in it. it is probably quite unlike running into a mountain of wet sand. It doesn't make me wonder about the survivability against a torpedo attack; it makes me wonder about the survivability of it hitting a rock formation that they didn't know about.

 

[gutharius]

Originally posted by: Sundog

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

The inner hull was not penetrated.

:Q

 

[MasterAndCommander]

Some bigger pictures from the official Navy site:

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2

Bump...found even higher res pics.

 

[lokiju]

Wow thats sucks.

 

[Doggiedog]

So somewhere out there there is a multimillion dollar nose cone waiting to be found.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Anyone know what the blue tarp is for? Something secret underneath?

 

[meltdown75]

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: KLin
woah :Q

 

[drum]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Anyone know what the blue tarp is for? Something secret underneath?

classified equipment according to the CNN article

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: dderidex

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

The inner hull was not penetrated.

:Q

That amazes me.

It really makes you wonder about the survivability of a sub against a torpedo attack, though, huh? "Common knowledge" has had it that a single torpedo is sufficient to sink anything.

But....I mean, if it can handle driving straight into a mountain at 30 knots.....

And, even more amazingly, not only NOT SINK, but recall that it managed to surface and drive back to port under its own power!

power of the nukes baby

 

[Brutuskend]

"Lucy, You got some splann'in to do!"

 

[FoBoT]

if the pressure hull had been breached from that type of collision, the sub would have been lost