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  • @oracleofdelphi4533
    @oracleofdelphi4533 8 месяцев назад +1046

    This time it's controlled by TWO playstation controllers.

    • @Anfidurl
      @Anfidurl 8 месяцев назад +64

      Or a PlayStation 2 controller...

    • @inguss27i
      @inguss27i 8 месяцев назад +6

      😂

    • @FreeThePorgs
      @FreeThePorgs 8 месяцев назад +50

      PS?? Oh no, it's a N64 controller!!!! They haven't developed the PS yet.

    • @inguss27i
      @inguss27i 8 месяцев назад +21

      ...printed on the new ACME 3D printer.

    • @2atalkandpolitics422
      @2atalkandpolitics422 8 месяцев назад +29

      Nes controller and a leaky nuke reactor gifted by the Russians

  • @pkt1213
    @pkt1213 8 месяцев назад +324

    Can you imagine how terrifying it would be to be a submariner in the DPRK? 😂 Probably has the same crush depth as one of my kids submarine toys.

    • @bigdopamine9343
      @bigdopamine9343 8 месяцев назад

      Suffering a horrifying early death as your crappy submarine falls below crush depth is one of the better ways your day can go in North Korea.

    • @Tankeryanker339
      @Tankeryanker339 8 месяцев назад +39

      I would imagine just living in North korea is terrifying .On the upside obesity isn't a problem .

    • @jtjames79
      @jtjames79 8 месяцев назад +15

      At one point the Brits had a steam powered submarine, that's crush depth was less than its length.
      Just saying.

    • @DairyCat
      @DairyCat 8 месяцев назад +22

      @@Tankeryanker339 Well it's a problem for at least 1 North Korean.

    • @Tankeryanker339
      @Tankeryanker339 8 месяцев назад

      @@DairyCat That's because the chubby little nut job eats all the food

  • @5KAmenshawn
    @5KAmenshawn 8 месяцев назад +88

    I have no doubt NK has the ability to build something that looks relatively modern and has a handful of 'modern' features, but is largely a WW2 sub when it comes to performance.

    • @EShirako
      @EShirako 8 месяцев назад +4

      That would totally make sense, yeah. Especially with how they hype things up all the time! And they showed off the launcher hatches 'by accident' to satellites, huh? Interesting.

    • @godfreecharlie
      @godfreecharlie 7 месяцев назад +3

      I agree completely. A cosmetically correct appearing sub is certainly a lot cheaper to build and will keep analysts busy with any data that can be garnered. I'm sure that in the case of a conflict this pride and joy of North Korea will be put on the sea floor in the first hour.

    • @marylandman12
      @marylandman12 6 месяцев назад +5

      Don't get it twisted. NK has gotten help from China and Russia, so they know what they are doing.

    • @5KAmenshawn
      @5KAmenshawn 6 месяцев назад

      @@marylandman12 So they can build to the same standards as Russia and China, two nations who bank more on their propaganda scaring people than actual military effectiveness. I'll be surprised if it doesn't sink in port with that pedigree.

    • @_Chad_ThunderCock
      @_Chad_ThunderCock 5 месяцев назад +2

      The sub is most likely very detectable sonar, certainly lacks stealth capabilities

  • @curiousuranus810
    @curiousuranus810 8 месяцев назад +49

    Coo, I didn't realise they had such a powerful rubber band to turn the screw.

    • @oracleofdelphi4533
      @oracleofdelphi4533 8 месяцев назад +9

      To quote from an interview with the crew of that sub's maiden voyage: "Glub glub gurgle gurgle"

    • @frankgrabasse4642
      @frankgrabasse4642 8 месяцев назад +5

      It is state of the art. But no galley.......... it's north Korea after all.

    • @jonathanchester5916
      @jonathanchester5916 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@oracleofdelphi4533 best comment of the day

    • @vehicles_n_stuff
      @vehicles_n_stuff 8 месяцев назад

      There’s no rubber band, just a very tired soldier on a stationary bike hooked up to the propeller

  • @tituspullo9210
    @tituspullo9210 8 месяцев назад +42

    Whistler, my boy - an erudite, yet eloquent and effervescent delivery.

    • @crakkbone8473
      @crakkbone8473 8 месяцев назад +1

      Nice alliteration

    • @frankgrabasse4642
      @frankgrabasse4642 8 месяцев назад +2

      Yes, a most expansive vocabulary.

    • @tituspullo9210
      @tituspullo9210 8 месяцев назад

      @@frankgrabasse4642 😂👍

    • @haggisek
      @haggisek 8 месяцев назад

      But can’t say the name Hamish

  • @carloshenriquezimmer7543
    @carloshenriquezimmer7543 8 месяцев назад +126

    'The "native design" of this sub MEANS NATIVE TO 60'S USSR!!!
    It is pretty much identical to a WAY outdated soviet design for a surface launching model- not underwater launch capable - that was never fabricated in big numbers, mostly because the following designs were all capable of underwater launching misiles.

    • @ACME_Kinetics
      @ACME_Kinetics 8 месяцев назад +15

      H.I. Sutton has commented on this sub on his website, likely a youtube video soon. TLDR it appears to be a heavily modified domestically produced Romeo-class design, so you're about spot on.
      Visually it appears that SOSUS can pinpoint it from Kansas.

    • @zaco-km3su
      @zaco-km3su 8 месяцев назад +2

      You mean 60s. Not the case. They probably designed it themselves. North Korea is not the USSR and had more access to Chinese submarines than Soviet submarines. Get over it. These guys can design stuff. You will end up under the Chinese boot like this.

    • @MrSGL21
      @MrSGL21 8 месяцев назад +15

      @@zaco-km3su um...no. the Chinese subs you reference were soviet designed Romeos. this sub is a modified chinese romeo. they started working on it in 2019. north korea can't feed its people let alone design anything. everything they have is 1950s and 60s era soviet crap. they still fly mig 15s.

    • @patdohrety2940
      @patdohrety2940 8 месяцев назад +5

      Maybe it is a paper tiger, but we don't know that yet. The U.S. needs to take this threat seriously until we find out more.

    • @bryank7500
      @bryank7500 8 месяцев назад +4

      This type of submarine can only handle smaller cruise missles. Intercontental ballistic missles need larger exits and a taller submarine.

  • @hargydon
    @hargydon 8 месяцев назад +70

    Thank you for approaching this with the levelheadedness that it deserves. It’s hard to get an assessment of any North Korean related news without it being soaked in ideology.

  • @waltertomashefsky2682
    @waltertomashefsky2682 8 месяцев назад +106

    Comrades, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the DPRK we have a special gift for all the people. No, not the food you crave; it’s a brand new shiny nuclear submarine.
    🎉 👏👏👏👏🎉 All praise to Chairman Kim.

    • @wesw9586
      @wesw9586 8 месяцев назад +21

      And by "brand new" we mean 30 year old Soviet technology 😂

    • @Blodhelm
      @Blodhelm 8 месяцев назад +17

      @@wesw9586 *60 year old

    • @wesw9586
      @wesw9586 8 месяцев назад +11

      @@Blodhelm was trying to be generous lol. I literally typed 40 and deleted it.

    • @adam50ish
      @adam50ish 8 месяцев назад

      And by "Nuclear" we dont mean with engines and everything we just strapped some ICBM's into it.@@wesw9586

    • @Melody_Raventress
      @Melody_Raventress 8 месяцев назад +2

      ****Not actually a nuclear submarine.****

  • @johnhargreaves3620
    @johnhargreaves3620 8 месяцев назад +60

    As retired builder and designer of submarines and looking at the 841 in the videos I would be concerned that the extended sail looks to be out of ratio in height to the main hull height. this extended sail length and height looks to give a rotational moment about the boat which on a high speed turn (for a diesel sub) would possibly when loaded with the top weight of missiles may rotate the vessel into an upside/down attitude which no submariner wants to experience as it is very difficult to correct and would make the blowing of ballast a very difficult operation.
    Driving and crewing a submarine is difficult and hazardous, I do not think I would like to experience a sea trip in this boat particularly when doing active battle manoeuvres. Kind regards JohnH

    • @EShirako
      @EShirako 8 месяцев назад +3

      Oh wow, I'd never thought about that before...are subs generally a "This Side Up" device that mostly can't operate upside-down? I know it may not be preferred and may disable some specific systems (like just cooking...can't do that easily upside-down), but is this more of an 'emergency situation' than 'an annoying but momentary inconvenience'?

    • @johnhargreaves3620
      @johnhargreaves3620 8 месяцев назад +6

      It is almost impossible to control a sub upside down and they will go deeper and crush due to the control surface problems and the problems of the inability to blow ballast tanks. Should the ship yard get the metacentric point of balance wrong it will rotate and be very difficult to right you have to in effect be self righting like a lifeboat.
      If the boat rolls over it is lost.@@EShirako

    • @ryankienholz7189
      @ryankienholz7189 8 месяцев назад +1

      Damn bro ,get em

    • @EShirako
      @EShirako 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@johnhargreaves3620 Wow...yeah, I'd never considered that. Especially if the center of gravity is made to be wrong, like if they, say, fired a few torpedos and the lack of that weight finally made "She's riding a bit funny, Cap'n..!" into "Augh, why are we upside-down?!" then about all they could do was try to shift mass around to literally fix it from the inside by like unmounting heavy stuff inside and 'sticking it to the roof/the usually-the-floor' and trying to roll it back. A bit of fluid in the wrong place goes from being an air-trap to a hard-hydraulic-system or a fluid-broken compressor and things like that. It would be hard to do a lot of things...and even just start all the problems off with 'the roof is the floor now'! The batteries would NOT be happy to go 180, though I think we're not using the open-wet-cell stuff still nowadays? So maybe it wouldn't flat-ruin them, but it might cause hell even if they still might work if brought back upright. I doubt we're using AGM batteries that don't mind their orientation. The reactor would be PISSED, though, and the turbines might have their cooling water dumped back up into their outflow, or just water that hasn't boiled might come burbling in from the reactor side...though I suppose they maybe have steam-gates to not let water get around the system all willy-nilly? The reactor would be useless, though, unless they can superheat the steam and use it anyway, but then they'd have to push the reactor to stupid temperatures to make that possible in the first place. Not a good situation, yeah. I'd never really thought it over before, but there's a lot of stuff that has just ONE thing that doesn't function any more if the device goes 180 degrees around! Or maybe even just 90. It seems that "sub design and engineering is just as hard as it looked like it should be, and harder still than that, too!"

    • @johnhargreaves3620
      @johnhargreaves3620 8 месяцев назад

      @@EShirako It is more the meta-centric point rather than the centre of gravity which causes rotation. Kind regards

  • @coinfrog2566
    @coinfrog2566 8 месяцев назад +48

    Wouldn't be surprised if it was controlled by a logitec Controller 🤣

    • @2l84t
      @2l84t 8 месяцев назад +11

      Too advanced ...the controller, that is.

    • @scott2100
      @scott2100 8 месяцев назад +8

      Nah, crappy Mad Catz from the early 00's

    • @oracleofdelphi4533
      @oracleofdelphi4533 8 месяцев назад +1

      the controller's just decorative.

    • @Reach-fe8yi
      @Reach-fe8yi 8 месяцев назад +4

      With USB 2, lol

    • @mikepatton8691
      @mikepatton8691 8 месяцев назад +2

      The US Navy uses an actual Xbox controller to control the high tech periscopes on their submarines.

  • @faolan1686
    @faolan1686 8 месяцев назад +143

    Serious question. How does a nation with a gdp of $18 billion afford to run dozens of submarines?

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 8 месяцев назад +156

      Not feed everyone

    • @HunterAtheist
      @HunterAtheist 8 месяцев назад +50

      They have state level hacking organizations.

    • @jimmyfaherty8588
      @jimmyfaherty8588 8 месяцев назад +62

      Free labor.

    • @bennyklabarpan7002
      @bennyklabarpan7002 8 месяцев назад +48

      GDP is not a good measurement for nations with autarky. With a controlled market and salaries controlled by the state GDP is quite meaningless beyond calculating access to foreign goods.

    • @robkunkel8833
      @robkunkel8833 8 месяцев назад

      A military is a despot nation’s artificial industry … steal what the people should have (food) and pay them with small wages to buy food.

  • @js19861234
    @js19861234 8 месяцев назад +14

    Hopefully the filters in our sonarmen’s headsets are working properly. That things gotta be loud as hell

  • @brucemitchell5637
    @brucemitchell5637 8 месяцев назад +34

    Kim, my grandmother called. She wants you to give her hat back to her! 😂

    • @CBe-ot8vu
      @CBe-ot8vu 7 месяцев назад

      Aren't you 10 y/o? Why aren't you playing barbies bruce?

  • @yammt3148
    @yammt3148 8 месяцев назад +11

    The first thought in my head after seeing the photos: "It looks like paper mache."

  • @JohnWilliamNowak
    @JohnWilliamNowak 8 месяцев назад +150

    It's interesting in part because a single ballistic missile submarine is worse than useless; all the enemy needs to do is wait for you to put it in drydock for maintenance before launching an attack. That's why everyone builds at least three.

    • @pieterveenders9793
      @pieterveenders9793 8 месяцев назад +25

      Guaranteed they'll build a couple more of them though. I'm sure they know that the minimum requirement for an effective submarine fleet is 3 or 4.

    • @statementleaver8095
      @statementleaver8095 8 месяцев назад

      No Military is allowed to Attack ships within 1mile of Coastline

    • @DuckOfRubber
      @DuckOfRubber 8 месяцев назад +37

      Obvious solution is to not do maintenance. Crisis averted!

    • @Rosseboi
      @Rosseboi 8 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@DuckOfRubberha ha!

    • @Wardads1
      @Wardads1 8 месяцев назад +3

      But they had to wait this long for the cardboard Polaris Sub with rubber band powered missiles from the back of qn old DC comic book

  • @robkunkel8833
    @robkunkel8833 8 месяцев назад +84

    The Ukraine war is teaching the world how limited one floating vessel can be. Now matter how dangerous it might be, there’s a drone out there to send it to the bottom.

    • @Mr_Meowingtons
      @Mr_Meowingtons 8 месяцев назад +13

      drone might not even get there on time it might sink just sitting at the dock.

    • @ViolentCabbage-ym7ko
      @ViolentCabbage-ym7ko 8 месяцев назад +6

      You speak as though the entire Russian navy has sunk. While there were successes, the damage were not significant enough to put it out of commission for good. Drones are easily manipulated by electronic warfare countermeasures, just simply block the signal and the drones are flying blind

    • @GingerMole
      @GingerMole 8 месяцев назад

      @@ViolentCabbage-ym7kothose drones are still gonna hit something 🤷‍♂️

    • @Lord_Foxy13
      @Lord_Foxy13 8 месяцев назад +4

      Just think about the Russian Navy today, and specifically the fact that Moskva was essentially a decrepit floating wreck... and she was a flagship. And just imagining what the rest of her fleet is like.
      And how if they can't keep the flagship of their second most important fleet from becoming a decrepit floating embarrassment...
      Just imagine what their nuclear arsenal is like, with their liquid-fueled Icbm's that are three times more expensive to maintain than solid-fuel. And if you miss a single l fuel cycle... the highly corrosive fuel will start to eat the fuel lines and tank.

    • @RC-nq7mg
      @RC-nq7mg 8 месяцев назад +7

      ​@@Lord_Foxy13I would hate to be the guys to have to fill the hypergolic propellant tanks. Hydrazine is scary stuff and those tanks have probably not been pressure tested in a while.

  • @UEAdmiral
    @UEAdmiral 8 месяцев назад +69

    Something tells me this sun is not particularly stealthy, and that it is going to suffer a sudden and mysterious accident in which all hands are lost.

    • @jilbertb
      @jilbertb 8 месяцев назад +9

      Which they'll blame on Japan...

    • @funkymarco4411
      @funkymarco4411 8 месяцев назад

      ​@jilbertb just blame china. That would be way more fun

    • @OpenCarryUSMC
      @OpenCarryUSMC 8 месяцев назад +6

      And the press release will say it’s so secret the our enemies can’t find it”… as it sits on the bottom with all hands lost.

    • @OpenCarryUSMC
      @OpenCarryUSMC 8 месяцев назад +1

      Interesting. No nuclear launch timings to be seen.

    • @LeoHKepler
      @LeoHKepler 8 месяцев назад +4

      Its not very mysterious when accounting for the fact that starving children riveted the single 2cm thick hull together.

  • @ianperry2763
    @ianperry2763 8 месяцев назад +25

    With this sub being used as a boomer. It would be far more anxiety causing if it was nuclear powered. But with it being diesel electric; it would have to surface and/or use it’s snorkel (if it had one) multiple times before getting in range of the US.

    • @vehicles_n_stuff
      @vehicles_n_stuff 8 месяцев назад +3

      It’s probably coal powered lol
      Or just pedal powered

    • @user-zb9lv3gh8s
      @user-zb9lv3gh8s 4 месяца назад +2

      ​@@vehicles_n_stuffcoal... Firewood, old Sears catalogs, table legs... Whatever they can shovel into the boilers, really.

  • @battlesheep2552
    @battlesheep2552 8 месяцев назад +14

    "Korean Style" does that mean it can be thwarted with a fishing net?

  • @untouchable360x
    @untouchable360x 8 месяцев назад +20

    Not a nuclear submarine. It’s a “special military vessel.”

  • @rob6052
    @rob6052 8 месяцев назад +6

    0:13 before I even get to the ending, is that sub currently in a Sevastopol drydock? 😂

    • @wesw9586
      @wesw9586 8 месяцев назад +1

      😂

  • @Andy-4342
    @Andy-4342 8 месяцев назад +5

    "Let's dive in, shall we?" - I sea what you did there...😆

  • @lurchibold
    @lurchibold 8 месяцев назад +9

    Do the North Korean's know that having a microwave on a submarine does not make it a nuclear sub?

  • @barrycassaday6316
    @barrycassaday6316 8 месяцев назад +55

    A submarine's advantage is secrecy. I heard this thing when it launched while I was snorkeling in Florida.

    • @alexrompen805
      @alexrompen805 8 месяцев назад +7

      After it was launched, sadly, its path was lost over the sound of the entire US Navy snickering and laughing....

    • @nolongerblocked6210
      @nolongerblocked6210 8 месяцев назад +1

      If you had a spear gun you probably could've sunk it with one shot

    • @zach11241
      @zach11241 5 месяцев назад

      @ nolongerblocked6210
      Probably??? No. Definitely. :)

  • @andrewduff2048
    @andrewduff2048 8 месяцев назад +51

    I feel bad for all the people who will eventually be crushed to death at the bottom of the ocean.

    • @EnclaveOfficer1776
      @EnclaveOfficer1776 8 месяцев назад +4

      They have good company with the oceangate crew

    • @BNT1985
      @BNT1985 8 месяцев назад +4

      They likely wont feel a thing.

    • @garfieldsmith332
      @garfieldsmith332 8 месяцев назад +5

      They will probably drown before they reach crush depth.

    • @navyreviewer
      @navyreviewer 8 месяцев назад

      I feel more sympathy for the generations of people in the area when its cobbled together nuclear housings crack.

    • @merafirewing6591
      @merafirewing6591 6 месяцев назад +1

      The submarine would be just be a nuclear tomb.

  • @tastywaves6043
    @tastywaves6043 8 месяцев назад +8

    Unless that submarine is some new level of quiet its only use would be as target practice.

  • @The_Spaint
    @The_Spaint 8 месяцев назад +26

    I bet it's not very quiet, and will be quite easily smacked in to the middle of next month if it leaves harbour with any intent. There will be an LA class just hovering around, or a Seawolf, or a Trafalgar or an Astute... Or any decent sub from about another 6 nations...

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 8 месяцев назад +5

      Modern diesel-electric subs are very quiet, actually quieter than most nuclear ones. However, this isn't a modern sub, its a design from 60 years ago; so you are probably right. :)

    • @MrKylederp
      @MrKylederp 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@nitehawk86Diesel subs quieter than a nuclear sub? You're way wrong on that one.

  • @jcmount1305
    @jcmount1305 8 месяцев назад +19

    Exterior looks a lot like a Golf, Project 629, Soviet diesel electric boat.

    • @PeterMuskrat6968
      @PeterMuskrat6968 8 месяцев назад +2

      Its based off a Romeo.

    • @heuhen
      @heuhen 8 месяцев назад +2

      they took an Romeo and split it in half, and removed the torpedo rome and gave it an round bow.

  • @Derekzparty
    @Derekzparty 8 месяцев назад +21

    77 miles long, 7 miles wide, 3.5 miles deep
    Able to descend into the upper mantle of the Earth's core
    Able to store a years worth of cheddar cheese for respected comrade Kim Jong Un.
    Armed with 3 R-7 Semyorka Thermonuclear missiles
    Found the info on a napkin at Mar-a-Lago

    • @bunyipdragon9499
      @bunyipdragon9499 8 месяцев назад

      😅

    • @NarwahlGaming
      @NarwahlGaming 8 месяцев назад

      On a tiny bit of corner at the bottom of a toilet bowl? 😂
      At first I thought you were going to finish with a 'Canyonero' joke.
      🎵 _"What's 2 miles long and 3 lanes wide? Canyonero-o! Canyonero-oooo!"_ 🎶

  • @DixonLu
    @DixonLu 8 месяцев назад +20

    Building a submarine is very different than running and maintaining it. They can repaint an old Russian sub, but keeping it at sea for more than an hour? Just like building a nuclear warhead is not the same as aiming/firing one. Need to worry more if they don't work, e.g., aim at Japan, end up hitting S. Korea.

    • @jilbertb
      @jilbertb 8 месяцев назад +1

      You mean aiming and firing EMPTY rockets with NO nuclear warheads inside.

    • @MrKylederp
      @MrKylederp 7 месяцев назад +1

      Even keeping a stock of parts and part upgrades/revisions are outside of their ability.

    • @GunitEngage
      @GunitEngage 3 месяца назад

      It is not so much about can it fly, steer, hit target and detonate. This is 80 years old tech. It is more to what scale. If North Korea would have couple of warheads ready to use this would be a threat. But this is to be proven. Guessing that the foreign military intelligents is making sure of that.
      Also 841 might be a missle launcher, probably only when surfaced. It will be easy to track and destroy. With the top stacked weight of the missles, it will be very clumsy and strong sea might be an issue anyways for it.
      If the submarine can reach a cost line undetected this will be a problem for countries like Japan and of course South Korea when being attacked other then from the North.
      Land based missles can be intercepted far easier or be destroyed before launch.

  • @carlstanland5333
    @carlstanland5333 8 месяцев назад +23

    Congratulations on 1 million subscribers Simon!🎉

  • @Cryodrake
    @Cryodrake 8 месяцев назад +21

    I bet its nothing more than an old sub that was updated to make it look new.

    • @mrmcmoustache9615
      @mrmcmoustache9615 8 месяцев назад +5

      Honestly you could be right it looks like an old soviet one

    • @Kaltagstar96
      @Kaltagstar96 8 месяцев назад +4

      I mean, I never expected Kim and his cronies to be sustainable but it's nice that they're practising recycling.

  • @marktuttle3609
    @marktuttle3609 8 месяцев назад +22

    While I believe N. Korea has the ability to build it, I have serious questions about how safe it is and more important how quite it is. Also, since it is deiseal powered, it will have some serious operational limitations that nuclear submarines dot have.

    • @curtisthomas2670
      @curtisthomas2670 8 месяцев назад

      It isn't a NK built, it's a Russian sub fitted to launch nuks

    • @marktuttle3609
      @marktuttle3609 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@curtisthomas2670 regardless if NK or Russia built it, it is still unsafe.

    • @curtisthomas2670
      @curtisthomas2670 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@marktuttle3609 you take comfort in that 😂

    • @Pwnopolis
      @Pwnopolis 7 месяцев назад

      I'd have serious questions about anyone in that neck of the woods being able to pilot it.
      Their armed forces are a collective joke when it comes to training and preparedness

    • @falcon_224
      @falcon_224 3 месяца назад

      @@Pwnopolis How did a collective joke military supply Russia with more shells than the entire EU combined? How did it detect spy American vessels and hunt them down? Keep spreading propaganda lol

  • @2l84t
    @2l84t 8 месяцев назад +6

    How's the hotel going ?

  • @mrmcmoustache9615
    @mrmcmoustache9615 8 месяцев назад +8

    I mean didn’t they scuttle one after it got caught in a fishing net?

  • @te0nani
    @te0nani 8 месяцев назад +4

    Looks like an old soviet model from the sixties, cut in half and then welded back together with a silo in the middle.

    • @wesw9586
      @wesw9586 8 месяцев назад +2

      Fairly accurate analysis.

    • @Kaltagstar96
      @Kaltagstar96 8 месяцев назад

      I mean, is there anything in the North Korean arsenal that DOESN'T look like an old soviet model from the 60s?

  • @joelb8653
    @joelb8653 8 месяцев назад +7

    The first coal fired submarine.

  • @ACME_Kinetics
    @ACME_Kinetics 8 месяцев назад +2

    Mr Un has THE most fantastic hat.

  • @JLewisRacing927
    @JLewisRacing927 8 месяцев назад +2

    "They hate us cuz they ain't us" - Skylark & Jong-un

  • @jhoncho4x4
    @jhoncho4x4 8 месяцев назад +15

    Hope they can squeeze Kim inside and dive him on a ride to Davey Jones's Locker; doubt he would allow it to submerge with him inside the dangerous pos.

  • @Tex_actual
    @Tex_actual 8 месяцев назад +67

    It would be a shame if it “accidentally” sank in international waters.

    • @Melody_Raventress
      @Melody_Raventress 8 месяцев назад +3

      I think you mean "when".

    • @Melody_Raventress
      @Melody_Raventress 8 месяцев назад

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOOKS LIKE IT HAPPENED TO CHINA FIRST!!!! In one of their own traps, no less... HAHAHAHA

  • @Dans-hobbies
    @Dans-hobbies 8 месяцев назад +27

    1) It's a diesels/electric boat, that makes it very vulnerable, because it has to surface regularly to recharge its batteries.
    2) it's using an acoustically inefficient hull form. The giant boxy bulge behind the sails where the missiles go.
    3) You generally don't launch ballistic missiles and cruise missiles from the same tubes. They are different sizes and different weights, and requite different launch systems. This is why 4 Ohio class boats were retrofitted, as the US navy converted them from ballistic missile boats to cruise missile boats.
    What we don't know, is how good it's propeller is. it doesn't matter if it's nuclear powered, or a diesel electric, if it doesn't have a good (silent) propeller other navies will be able to pick it up and track it from a long way off.

    • @sailirish7
      @sailirish7 8 месяцев назад +3

      I seriously doubt their sound-silencing tech is up to snuff.

    • @noraneko8926
      @noraneko8926 8 месяцев назад

      1. Or at least in periscope depth, cuz snorkel exist
      2. They probably copy Chinese design, they had similar hull (Type 94)

    • @jilbertb
      @jilbertb 8 месяцев назад

      Yup, exactly. And since the US now has pictures of the prop, they can tune their sonar to find it. IF it can even dive and not leak or burst! 😂

    • @Dans-hobbies
      @Dans-hobbies 8 месяцев назад

      @noraneko8926
      The snorkel still sticks out like a sore thumb on radar.
      It's definitely not a type 94 copy. The shape is completely different, not to mention that type 94 is nuclear powered.

    • @_Chad_ThunderCock
      @_Chad_ThunderCock 5 месяцев назад

      Certainly it's inferior to cold war era subs

  • @Gav_Jam
    @Gav_Jam 8 месяцев назад +17

    This was excellent content

    • @mrmcmoustache9615
      @mrmcmoustache9615 8 месяцев назад +2

      This man knows what it’s at, he doesn’t care for the memes, he cares for the content

  • @phillewis1749
    @phillewis1749 8 месяцев назад +5

    Calling this submarine "modern" is like calling a ZX Spectrum "cutting edge".
    The 033 class is basically a Chinese built Romeo class circa 1957, the design influences are there in the 841. Compare that to the genuinely modern subs with AIP for example, and you wonder what is "modern" about it

  • @Dcook85
    @Dcook85 8 месяцев назад +27

    Out of all the submarines in the world the absolute last I would ever want to be on is a North Korean submarine.

    • @2atalkandpolitics422
      @2atalkandpolitics422 8 месяцев назад +2

      It’s not “Korean” it’s Russian Korean

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 8 месяцев назад +14

      Well, its a tough choice between a 60 year old Soviet leftover refitted by North Korea, and a carbon fiber tube controlled by a knockoff xbox controller.

    • @Blodhelm
      @Blodhelm 8 месяцев назад

      @@2atalkandpolitics422 That's worse.

    • @jayamd3579
      @jayamd3579 8 месяцев назад

      are you one of those people who believe "foreign" people cant build stuff? like how Egyptians couldn't possibly build the pyramid's so it must be aliens?

    • @oldmech619
      @oldmech619 8 месяцев назад

      If the sub gets deployed, it will be shadowed the navy destroyers.

  • @dc76384
    @dc76384 4 месяца назад +2

    The worst thing you can do is disrespect, or underestimate your enemy. Plot your strategy as if your enemy is capable as they advertise.

  • @harlandurant7014
    @harlandurant7014 8 месяцев назад +6

    It's probably a Chinese rebrand kinda like those Milwaukee batteries on ebay that explode.

    • @merafirewing6591
      @merafirewing6591 6 месяцев назад

      You mean the batteries that power a Tesla?

  • @davidvavra9113
    @davidvavra9113 8 месяцев назад +3

    Did Comrade Kim inherit Queen Elizabeth's hat?

  • @Hammerhead547
    @Hammerhead547 8 месяцев назад +3

    $50 says its a retrofitted ex chinese or soviet vintage design that's 40 years out of date and was about to be scrapped.

    • @jkarra2334
      @jkarra2334 8 месяцев назад

      more like 60 years ago😂
      unless northe koreans haven't modified that old diesel sub to go with silent midget farts that pice of junk can be heard hundred of miles away 😂

    • @jamesmcgowen1769
      @jamesmcgowen1769 8 месяцев назад

      I reckon your money is safe. I’ve never seen evidence of north korea having a mining industry to extract its own ore from the ground

  • @Twelveinchpianist
    @Twelveinchpianist 8 месяцев назад +1

    I can always follow the dopamine to your channel and new or archived videos! You're great for my chronic depression! Thanks again bro.

  • @jmanj3917
    @jmanj3917 8 месяцев назад +1

    12:05 BWONG!! Where is my fishing pole? 😂

  • @thefretfiend
    @thefretfiend 8 месяцев назад +8

    Nork subs are all diesel/electric powered. Regardless of the weaponry they carry, they cannot stay submerged long enough to avoid being detected and tracked (and quickly dispatched) by several navies of the world before they can bring that weaponry to bear effectively.

    • @karatecanine
      @karatecanine 8 месяцев назад

      Except they already have ballistic missiles that can reach the west coast of the US.

    • @jilbertb
      @jilbertb 8 месяцев назад

      The missiles may be able to fly, but they have NO PAYLOAD for them...

  • @williamcostigan91
    @williamcostigan91 8 месяцев назад +11

    I'd like to be as fair and level headed as Simon and his team but its difficult for me to take a miltary that still uses mig-17s seriously.

    • @subjectc7505
      @subjectc7505 8 месяцев назад

      That military can still outperform F-16s with a Mig-17. Don't underestimate your enemies.

    • @hpblack1953
      @hpblack1953 8 месяцев назад +5

      ⁠@@subjectc7505-you can’t be serious. I just spit some 12 year old scotch on my keyboard. Thanks for nothing komrade

    • @oracleofdelphi4533
      @oracleofdelphi4533 8 месяцев назад +2

      @subjectc7505
      Thanks to Ukraine, you win the award for the most ironic thing ever said.

    • @subjectc7505
      @subjectc7505 8 месяцев назад

      @@hpblack1953 Ukraine has outdated MiG-29s and Su-27s with outdated R-27s and Air to air missiles, they're capable of shooting down Su-35S's which is Russia most modern fighters. It's still surprising no one learned from Vietnam and Afghanistan.

    • @jilbertb
      @jilbertb 8 месяцев назад

      "It's not just the car, it's the DRIVER" -Mario Andretti

  • @james8449100
    @james8449100 8 месяцев назад +9

    Seriously Kim is putting boats in the sea. The sea might have something to say about that

  • @GrouchierBear
    @GrouchierBear 8 месяцев назад +46

    The difficulty in making a nuclear attack capable submarine isn't the submarine, it's the weapons you put on it, so the question on that front is really "have the North Koreans made a nuclear weapon small enough to fit on a submarine launched ballistic missile?" And honestly, there's no reason to doubt that. The major nuclear powers solved that problem in the sixties and knowledge tends to spread, even to the hermit kingdom.
    I assume the navies of the US and their allies are more concerned with determining how good the boat is at hiding, should the time come for them to kill it.

    • @coopdeville377
      @coopdeville377 8 месяцев назад

      Agree 100%

    • @jonathanchester5916
      @jonathanchester5916 8 месяцев назад +2

      It's a total freakin' fantasy to imagine, just to imagine that N Korea has the capability to build much less arm, much less crew, much less maintain, much less launch anything from underwater other than a big overblown fart. We're talking about some of the most complex, highly sophisticated machines known to war and you think a 2 bit thug and his cronies have it dialed in? wow just wow.

    • @razor6888
      @razor6888 8 месяцев назад

      its possible... now its a game of chess with the US Navy. It makes sense actually.. if North Korea lacks the tech to go direct to the USA or Europe
      A sub that may have the potential to launch a shorter range missile is a advantage. But all this may be a ploy. .. Time will tell.

    • @76po
      @76po 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@jonathanchester5916 never underestimate North Korea my friend as that is 100% what they want you to do and then in the dead of night the strike comes............

    • @N0WYO1
      @N0WYO1 8 месяцев назад +1

      You can believe that the US will be assessing it's stealth and functionality

  • @claytondennis8034
    @claytondennis8034 8 месяцев назад +6

    As soon as it goes on sea trials, the US will have a lot of information on this sub. We every day people won't know anything, but the people that matter will know.

    • @wesw9586
      @wesw9586 8 месяцев назад

      It's just a re-re-re-re-hash of a Soviet era diesel boat and not even a very good one. U.S. and U.N. intelligence probably already know most of the pertinent info and have since the 1990s 😂

  • @alanh8664
    @alanh8664 8 месяцев назад +36

    NK: USA, we have nuclear warhead capable submarine launchable ICBM.
    USA: NO, you don't!
    NK: YES we do!! We will use it!
    USA: Hmmm, give us a call in 30 minutes, tell us if you still have it. Thank you for your interest in naval warfare

    • @anonymousxish
      @anonymousxish 8 месяцев назад

      lmao.Visiting the titanic?

    • @HauntedXXXPancake
      @HauntedXXXPancake 8 месяцев назад +1

      North Carolina ?
      ( 'Korea' is spelled with a K 😄)

    • @alanh8664
      @alanh8664 8 месяцев назад

      Yes, hehehe, thx@@HauntedXXXPancake

    • @sheevone4359
      @sheevone4359 8 месяцев назад +2

      Thanks for calling, there will be a survey to rate this call.

    • @GeoPoliticsCommentry
      @GeoPoliticsCommentry 8 месяцев назад +1

      Just enough of a platform to make Hawaii or Guam bask in the glow. That's all Korea has to be bribed to do to .

  • @randallsmith4685
    @randallsmith4685 8 месяцев назад +2

    I can tell you everything you want to know about the sub. You fill it with baking soda and it goes brrrrrrrrr..😅😂😅

  • @jmanj3917
    @jmanj3917 8 месяцев назад +2

    8:51 The onscreen text says:
    BWONG!!
    Where is my cabbage? 😂

  • @josephschultz3301
    @josephschultz3301 8 месяцев назад +18

    *[Eating potato chips]* So, any bets on how long it takes before the North Korean government tries to cover up a horrible, tragic disaster with this sub? I'm thinkin' something like the Kursk, maybe a month from now.

    • @itwasaliens
      @itwasaliens 8 месяцев назад

      I'm hoping the sub is spotted just outside of US waters off the coast of California. Maybe shoot some fireworks into the air. That would genuinely be hilarious.

    • @triadwarfare
      @triadwarfare 8 месяцев назад

      Then have South Korea and Japan to offer help but refuse, worsening the fate of the drowning sailors.

    • @azurblueknights
      @azurblueknights 8 месяцев назад +1

      I'll be the first to admit I don't know a whole lot about submarines or submersibles, but the thing looks almost as flimsy as Titan.

    • @fouloleron2002
      @fouloleron2002 8 месяцев назад

      K129.

    • @josephschultz3301
      @josephschultz3301 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@triadwarfare Britain and Norway both offered to help, but the Soviet Union refused.
      You are aware that _that's_ why those sailors died, right? The international community was horrified about what was happening.

  • @kennethnielsen3864
    @kennethnielsen3864 8 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for sharing.

  • @jeffbailey2007
    @jeffbailey2007 8 месяцев назад

    Love having an in the middle of approach 🤘

  • @benmoran431
    @benmoran431 8 месяцев назад +4

    Kim does look kinda cute in that hat though☺️☺️

  • @erasmus_locke
    @erasmus_locke 8 месяцев назад +8

    Would be a shame if it sunk due to a faulty toilet 🚽🪠

    • @brendenlundy8294
      @brendenlundy8294 7 месяцев назад

      That happened in WWII to the Germans. Look it up

  • @JohnJohnson-dj2dv
    @JohnJohnson-dj2dv 8 месяцев назад +1

    In the intro... "Let's dive in!" Submarine story...dive in! Ha, I see what you did there, Simon!!

  • @nigelcowie6883
    @nigelcowie6883 8 месяцев назад

    A really great video, and spot on

  • @lucakrokrowinkel9576
    @lucakrokrowinkel9576 8 месяцев назад +1

    Bruh it looks straight outta 1950s USSR but somehow I don’t doubt it’s worse than those deathtraps.

  • @Wonderwhoopin
    @Wonderwhoopin 8 месяцев назад +3

    That thumbnail 😂

  • @hazonku
    @hazonku 8 месяцев назад +12

    I don't doubt the nuclear capabilities of this submarine one bit. That said, I still firmly believe this thing was only made for one goal, to continue the party narrative that they are fiercely independent and that Kim really is trying to move them away from the kids table. He's not, but it doesn't matter so long as that's what the people believe. I'm not going to be impressed by this thing until it pops up somewhere uncomfortable during the next ROK/US large scale naval exercise.

    • @Pwnopolis
      @Pwnopolis 7 месяцев назад

      Lol if that happened it wouldn't be around for long.

    • @timber_wulf5775
      @timber_wulf5775 6 месяцев назад

      Even if it does we let it, no matter what people say US boats are and forever will be quiet and able to find anyone anywhere anyhow

  • @nissan300ztt
    @nissan300ztt 8 месяцев назад +1

    Simon I love your videos my man. Wish you would come to the states and do a meet and greet. LOL. I listen to your videos at work on my 10 hour shifts and make my days go quickly.

  • @frankgulla2335
    @frankgulla2335 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you for that in-depth analysis and well-balanced commentary.

  • @dinsdalemontypiranha4349
    @dinsdalemontypiranha4349 8 месяцев назад +8

    To quote you Simon, "A grounded, no nonsense" take on this topic. This is one of the many reasons that I watch your outstanding videos. Thanks!

  • @jsime2566
    @jsime2566 8 месяцев назад +11

    We watch your videos in history class.

  • @justinsmith7245
    @justinsmith7245 8 месяцев назад +2

    They should test dive it around the wreck of the uss Johnston! Just to show it’s amazing dive depth. SCIENCE!!!!!

  • @michaelcroteau5919
    @michaelcroteau5919 8 месяцев назад +2

    It’s not you. It’s me. I’m way too high to handle this. I promise to come back and actually watch at a later time.

  • @jackychan9236
    @jackychan9236 8 месяцев назад +18

    Congratulations Kim, seems like your subs are finally on the same level as the Soviet subs in 1950s.

    • @nolongerblocked6210
      @nolongerblocked6210 8 месяцев назад +1

      Well of course, where do you think he got the plans/designs?? 😂😂😂😂

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 7 месяцев назад +2

      I love the american tactic of belittling your enemies, overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 7 месяцев назад +2

      Its funny you said the same about soviet tanks, yet in ukraine the Abrams and leopards have very high loses in ratio compared to them

    • @nolongerblocked6210
      @nolongerblocked6210 7 месяцев назад

      @@NeostormXLMAX you're a bad liar & an obvious one too. The Abrams have just gotten to Ukraine in the last few weeks & haven't even seen battle yet. There's been 5 documented Leopard's hit & 3 of those were probably repairable. If we believed Russian propaganda they've destroyed more Patriot Systems than have ever been built in the history of the system. The Russians can't even keep their navy at sea against a country without a navy... cope harder tankie

    • @jackychan9236
      @jackychan9236 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@NeostormXLMAX "in ratio"? that's a whole new category of copium you guys is having over there.

  • @MrCommentmaster
    @MrCommentmaster 8 месяцев назад +4

    Why would a North Korean sub have 841 in English rather than a number in Korean? Also, do they Really expect us to believe they have that many ships? Unless they’re including row boats of course.

    • @vehicles_n_stuff
      @vehicles_n_stuff 8 месяцев назад

      They save money by making them out of papier-mâché

    • @CharlieBam
      @CharlieBam 6 месяцев назад +1

      All nations use the 1-9 characters for numbers, they arent attached to any language. The number system came from India thousands of years ago and is so awesome everyone ditched their way of doing nunbers and adopted the indian system. Roman numerals are a cool example of a dead number system, but there are many others as well.

  • @madman123456
    @madman123456 8 месяцев назад +1

    Last time i saw an article about North Korea and it having Submarines i saw a blurry picture with what looked like a type 7. Like the ones used in wolfpack operations against allied trade conveys. By the german Wehrmacht in World War 2...

    • @petervonfroster8i
      @petervonfroster8i 7 месяцев назад

      well, the Type XXI was quite successfully used up into the 90's, its a functional "Base" even for modern Submarines.
      but how the Internals look, i dont know.
      btw. not the Wehrmacht used them, the Kriegsmarine did

  • @DrGrowth
    @DrGrowth 4 месяца назад

    Thanks!

  • @biffisgreat
    @biffisgreat 8 месяцев назад +25

    Isn't their weaponry mostly old soviet items from the Korean war? Accept for the "parade" stuff

    • @Blodhelm
      @Blodhelm 8 месяцев назад +5

      A lot of the parade stuff is old grads being pulled by tractors.

    • @jilbertb
      @jilbertb 8 месяцев назад +2

      Soviet tractors...

    • @josephschultz3301
      @josephschultz3301 8 месяцев назад +1

      In short, yes.

    • @keithmoore5306
      @keithmoore5306 8 месяцев назад +4

      they still have Mig 15's in active service and most of that parade junk is just dressed up 50's and 60's era armor retreads!! NATO intel says at most they have a 96 hour fuel supply and 11 days food ration supply at full combat consumption rates!!

    • @LeoHKepler
      @LeoHKepler 8 месяцев назад +1

      So much for self-reliance eh.

  • @geraint8989
    @geraint8989 8 месяцев назад +3

    If Kim were serious, he would announce that the crew would receive food. Perhaps remains from his own plate.

  • @sarahlovell2
    @sarahlovell2 8 месяцев назад

    Love the cheeky wink fact boy 😉

  • @fridaycaliforniaa236
    @fridaycaliforniaa236 8 месяцев назад +2

    Don't know if I somewhat wouldn't prefer the Titangate submarine to this can...

  • @AifDaimon
    @AifDaimon 8 месяцев назад +3

    why is north korea still around, tbfh!?

  • @Taylor.L.
    @Taylor.L. 8 месяцев назад +5

    It’s probably a Russian sub they borrowed for the event

    • @artnull13
      @artnull13 8 месяцев назад +1

      Coincidence he visited Putin recently?

  • @scottgordon1781
    @scottgordon1781 8 месяцев назад

    A roller coaster ride this one :-)

  • @aceundead4750
    @aceundead4750 8 месяцев назад +2

    Another video that would be absolutely hilarious on Brain Blaze, but for the safety of Fact Boy cant be over there.

  • @DarkestVampire92
    @DarkestVampire92 8 месяцев назад +3

    I have no doubt that they can build a submarine that can launch nuclear missiles.
    I have SEVERE doubts they are able to build nuclear warheads small enough to fit those launch tubes.

  • @jilbertb
    @jilbertb 8 месяцев назад +3

    No details as to what is INSIDE as Kim couldn't fit thru the hatch! 😂
    If it was a secret, special submarine, they should have covered the propeller. 😮
    Now that the US has pictures of the propeller, they can adjust our sonar systems to detect the noise it will make and KABOOM! 😂

  • @SmegHedd117
    @SmegHedd117 8 месяцев назад +2

    This tub even opens its missile hatches..... There 'll be a US Fast Attack boat putting a Mark 48 into it before it can launch!

    • @danielkjm
      @danielkjm 8 месяцев назад

      Cope

    • @SmegHedd117
      @SmegHedd117 8 месяцев назад

      I won't need to. The North Korean Navy will when this thing goes to Davey Jones Locker after we sink it!

  • @timotheetessier1058
    @timotheetessier1058 7 месяцев назад

    🤣 his hat @ 6:36 I damn near spit out my beer

  • @MAINTMAN73
    @MAINTMAN73 8 месяцев назад +3

    I wonder if the Soviets traded a couple of old conjurer submarines for a bunch of AK-47 ammo the fight with in the Ukraine. Maybe they threw in a couple of drones and some artillery shells. Let's hope it's one of the Russian classes that use liquid oxygen feed the diesel while underwater. I think they called those boats something like the heroshima class jokingly.

  • @theodoreroosevelt7224
    @theodoreroosevelt7224 8 месяцев назад +5

    Lets not to be so harsh on the North Koreans. I'm sure the submarine can sink.

  • @billpetersen298
    @billpetersen298 8 месяцев назад +1

    Simon, has an excellent segment on Tibet. Lest we forget.
    Oh and, China just recently lost a nuclear sub??
    How interesting!

  • @earth2006
    @earth2006 8 месяцев назад +2

    It's an up armored refrigeration unit that is movable to protect "Walk Like A Duck's" very special cheesecake and cheeseburger spplies. Any resembalance to a submarine is probably unintentional.

  • @anthonyking5563
    @anthonyking5563 8 месяцев назад +8

    Simon gives me an awesome form of information, learning, and history, entertainment that is fun to listen to.

  • @stevelenox152
    @stevelenox152 8 месяцев назад +3

    It would be a real shame if the submarine 841 was captured or sunk 😈

  • @jmanj3917
    @jmanj3917 8 месяцев назад +1

    BWONG!!
    Where is my...submarine?
    😂

  • @philipstreechon4523
    @philipstreechon4523 8 месяцев назад +2

    It's a TYPE 033 SUBMARINE with the holes filled in. an extension to the corning tower and a paint job.

  • @kevint.8553
    @kevint.8553 8 месяцев назад +6

    Can you give a grounded analysis of something that operates in water?