Maybe the best submarine was the first nuclear powered submarine, The Nautilus. All that have come after are the result of its development. G-d bless the men and women who have the responsibility to protect us and our country.
On April 10, 1963, I was in the 5th grade.PERMIT. a friend classmate was doing a cross-sectional view of the USS George Washington ballistic missile submarine on the bulletin board in the back of our classroom. Both of our dads worked on submarines in Groton, CT. That morning, on April 10th, my friend came to school, and he told me that the USS Thresher SSN-593 was overdue at returning to Port. I was saddened by her loss. 8 years later, I was assigned to the USS PERMIT SSN-594. My interest in submarines began in 1961 after seeing the movie Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. I'm proud to have served on the USS Permit SSN-594.
Not trying to nit- pick here , but speeding past all those ships lost , and fading beyond readable names , seems really disrespectful of all those who perished . Just my opinion.
Very sad to admit, you are correct! With the current state of the Global Politics, we currently need 20 or 30 of the Sea Wolf Class, Fast Attack Submarines!
MAD mutually Assured Destruction. This thing is serious. The most sophisticated in the world. Now I understand why having these is important , it can be a game changer. They can destroy a surface fleet in stealth and then blast a tomahawk missile with mirv and blow stuff off the map.
And maintenance times most likely increased because as a mechanic, sometimes packaging things too tight they don't take into account the physical size and access required to repair/replace parts. As mechanics we hate engineers.
The Seawolf Class needs to go on a war time crash build program of no less that 15 more attack subs in 6-7 years. Looks like they will be needed sooner rather than later in Asia and they give capabilities other attack subs do not have.😊
The Seawolf Class is history; DoD has moved on from Seawolf to the less expensive Virginia Class submarine. We built 3 Seawolves, and have since built 21 Virginia Class boats. Less capable, but also much less expensive - and where submarines are concerned, more is better - much better. It's about coverage, not capability; these are attack subs, whose job it is - predominantly - to take out enemy shipping with Mk 48 torpedoes, and land-based military facilities with Tomahawk cruise missiles. They have other roles, but that's the primary reason we build them. Between the 21 Virginias, the 40 688 class subs - 30 of which have Vertical Launch Systems for Tomahawks, and the 3 SSGNs - converted Ohio-class ballistic missile subs now equipped for an attack class role - we are on a major treadmill building the foundation of our anti-Russian fleet, and anti-Chinese fleet, control apparatus. With the buffoons currently running Washington, we may soon need them.
My father worked at EB for 35 years, he was a project manager on the weapons systems for the boomers and fast attacks. Very interesting in the multitude of the various attack and insertion characteristics of subs. Correct EB secured a huge contract to build the VA class and certain aspects were carried over from the Seawolf class. As you noted the Seawolf was very expensive to build. He used to go out on the sea trials for the subs before they fully handed them over to the Navy. Some of the stories he has told me are riveting. Lot's of stuff he could never share because of the classified nature.
The Seawolf class remains the gold standard even 30 yrs later. Just spare no expense, update the stealth design and build another 15 of these exemplary boats
Omg yes, because without the US Military everywhere, America cannot function. How on earth did America go from being a bunch of farmland and wilderness in 1776... To the richest nation on earth by 1900? We didn't even have soldiers and sailors obsessed with being everywhere, all the time. Yet somehow it happened anyway. Magic.
I worked on SSN 575 and SSN 571 Nautilus as a pipe fitter at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo California where it was decommissioned. Ocean Engineering used this boat for special use and that’s where I worked. I had a Top Secret clearance as all did working on this platform so I can not say what we did and even I din’t know anything about it’s mission. Modular construction did not exist so we constructed every piece of pipe by hand as did all the other trades. We did excellent construction at every step and everything we did was inspected. It was a great time in my career. Today the Ballistic Nuclear Submarine is the most powerful weapons platform on earth, I call it, The Doomsday Machine.
My great uncle, Donald Joseph Naze, perished on the USS Seawolf (SSN-197) during WW2. The sub was sunk by probable freindly fire claiming all on board.
@@GH-oi2jf Same ship name given to other ships when no longer in service. A new Ford class carrier under construction now is the Enterprise. The Big E was our first nuclear powered carrier commissioned in 1960.
Saw the interior of a even newer submarine and the wheels and 2+ men used to dive/steer the sub has been replaced with one man and a laptop. He simply inserts or clicks the desired action and the sub does the rest. The cool periscope mechanism you raise/lower turn etc is now a X-box controller. No nuclear engineering degree needed, only X-box EXPERIENCE.
The USS Jimmy Carter is the “Seawolf Class” that technically doesnt exist. No “official” home port, mission, and no contact outside except for the officers once underway.
Please don’t talk about 23 so negatively. She lives in Bangor, WA. Officially registered under the Naval Registry. And officers aren’t safe from being restricted to outside contact the same as enlisted (they are)
My brother was a medic on a nuclear powered sub off the sea of Japan when it's nuclear power was , in Jeperty and was in Need of being shut down !!! He ,and 6 other sea mate's volunteered to shut down the Reactor , least they not be able to Surface !!! ,& They ,weren't supposed to be thier ether !!! They were given an estimate on How long each man had to live ! They Saved the mission !, but ! ,They All were Only given 7 , year's to live !!! , all 6 of the other men died !!! , & my brother was operated on to install a machine into his body to keep him Alive ! I just got him Help to be in another vet Hospital in UTAH ! , cause the veteran's Hospital wouldn't help Help him ! ,His wife fell down in front of him ,with a cartiack & died ,later the next day ! That's What you get ! For serving your country !!! . IT SUCK'S !!! THANKS AMEN !
WW2 Germany did the first module build of submarines. Funny thing is there slave labor made slight changes to random parts that forced the final fitter made corrections and repairs before they could fit the sections together.
They came up with the idea based on Henry Ford and the American car manufacturing industry way of producing all the allied war machinery. Problem was the USA was used to it and pioneered that building model, even without their slave labor tinkering with the subs, they sucked anyway because the Germans didn't have the experience mass producing things like that.
The opener for the video says it all: We have the THICKEST, the LONGEST, the BEST, the FASTEST, and we have the MOST BEAUTIFUL submarine in the world. It can do things others can't... A typical American reportage.
0:11 Can you imagine being in the sub crew during a rapid surfacing where the bow launches over 60ft above the water, and then falls the height of a 8 story building back below the waves !?! While this sort of looks like a whale playing on the surface, you have to realize the scale of that sub about 40ft tall (nearly 15m without conning tower) and the nose went way farther into the air, then splashed down to submerged level again. HOLD ON !! That's taking every person and machine on a wild roller coaster ride. Tie EvErYtHiNg down (especially the torpedos)... tell the kitchen NoT to be cooking/serving anything at the time, and hope nobody was trying to use the bathroom. How does a nuclear reactor like being tossed into the air, then dropped five stories or more while still generating about 80% of its rated power ?? ( I guess they build 'em Navy tough )
Yeah, CD-ROM and eliminating paper for floppy disks. So cutting edge. What a load of crap. If these systems were designed and built properly they wouldn't be running the actually real and utterly pathetic "Windows for Warships" as their newest tech.
Unfortunately these were designed using early CAD/CAM. Many parts were over designed and almost impossible to manufacture. With each unit becoming almost a prototype.
What makes you think military-industrial complex engineering facilities stopped designing when the prototype part was made? I've seen instances where fasteners went through 25 revisions after release. Never mind electronics going from SMT (surface mount technology) PC boards to stand-alone integrated devices. Check out how many transistors you can get on the head of a pin. Ever hear of Moore's Law? New advances in AI computer design are making it obsolete. And nowadays, virtually no discrete part is impossible to manufacture. The biggest drawback is the cost of desirable material in quantity (think graphene in large sheets). Another drawback is the current level of available technology, and the reluctance to invest in exploiting new avenues of thought. AutoCAD is a great program, but it isn't the program of choice for high-tech design.
Well, battle maneuvers are a feature that might not sit well with commercial transactions modes viability. I still accept the ice burg and sea creatures theory of submarines. Reff: Titanic.
I knew Frank Holland. He was an Engineer aboard the Nautilus, when it sailed under the North Pole. He passed away, abput ten years ago. I also met the retired and elderly General Electric Engineer who designed the electrical control system for its reactor.
@@lawrenceleverton7426 I'm sure it is. Frank told mr about the issues on their shakedown cruise. He and another crew member created the postal stamp to mark a batch of mail, as they went under the North Ole. After his time in the Navy, he taught Nuclear Safety.
It’s an insane level of hull design that’s capable of being pushed that fast. However, a large submarine going at full tilt will leave a wake in the sea surface. US has satellites to look for these wakes.
@39:40 I find it interesting that today everyone says the Hunley sank the Housatonic, yet this documentary and others say it only inflicted minor damage. So which is it?
The Huniey DID sink Housatonic, well documented, but never came back. Lost with all crew. Had sunk in shallow water with her crew during trials. Poor design and concept. Has been raised and is in a museum
The only thing about watching older documentaries is hindsight I guess. I’ve watched a few videos like this and they all mention the world trade centre. Oof 😥
Yep CD-ROM's were cutting edge technology in the early 90's before DVD's came out. I was still listening to a cassette player when this sub was depeloped.
It makes no difference whatsoever how advanced a weapon is if you don't have the best people/ person trained to use it.. When it comes to submarines the Royal Navy are no 1. All the very best USN submarine Captains have training by the Royal Navy, fact, whether you like it or not.
This is true my father worked at EB. The issue was the outer hull covering on the initial build it would sheer off. It was the fastest sub in the world. The cost was the reason they only built a few.
@@lawrenceleverton7426 The Seawolf was quieter at top speed than the Va class sitting in the harber. It's in a class of its own. Exceptionally well designed and built.
Dont worry world our military is #1 all you have to do is have your nation read, think critically, have good roads, schools & hospitals and understand that only women can have babies and youll have USA beat 😂😂
7:16 I disagree. Those were the most dangerous times in world history not just American. A nuclear war wouldn’t just affect American soil and Soviet soil. That would be a world wide catastrophe.
HY-80 and HY-100 are both weldable grades, whereas the HY-130 is generally considered unweldable. HY-80 is considered to have good corrosion resistance and has good formability to supplement being weldable.
I can't wait until they make it controlled via cellphone making it a large power suit like Ironman 80s news on future advanced navy also on tube air craft carrier captain controlling aircraft fighter jet with his cellphone awesome dick Tracy technology here now
I have experienced the sea wolf in navy created simulator modern warships in arcade Peter pan Bayside q ny now app game it's still my number one tier3 purple exotic they literally run away for real sea wolf tier2 maxed out upgrades
The scriptwriter made a major blunder, and I wonder why Mr Hamill didn’t do some homework on subs. The word “ship” is used countless times, and I find it sickening. A submarine is NOT a ship. It is a BOAT!! Remember this when watching another doco about subs.
Never able to fully determine what caused the Thresher catastrophe? So..... the navy had no idea what to change/fix or reengineer. I call BS. The statement was "not able to fully determine the cause". I think that means they did learn what malfunction/failed and kept it from being released and known to this day. To much money involved, keeping the "enemy" from knowing as little as possible, and most importantly, not being sued by the families of the perished men of the Thresher. Which would cause even more discovery. Which would cause an even bigger cover up effort. Regardless, the Navy was and is liable. I'm sure they still do not see it that way. Smh........
This channel is NOT telling the story. They simply uploaded a video that was already produced, narrated by the original producers. This was originally created in the 90s... and posted on Television... and on 🎥 🎞 VHS & DVDs 📀. This channel has taken the original video and added it to their channel. Or has taken the video from another channel & put it on their own channel/page. So they aren't the ones able to give you the answers. They are just here for the views, clicks, & hoping to get paid... and hoping to get advertising dollars... for posting ONLY!
So many people commenting here seem to find documentaries like this, which showcase state-of-the-art technology at the time, hysterically funny. Perhaps they lack the awareness to see that today's state-of-the-art technology may seem just as 'laughable' 30 years from now. They also seem to forget that these systems don't stand still but are constantly being upgraded. Today's technology didn't spring into being out of nowhere. It's the result of decades, even hundreds of years, of technological innovation and evolution.
11:47 we now know if a force makes threats about knowing where your at or that they know your on your way it’s just a scare tactic. It’s really the force making the threat that’s scared. But those times were different times yeah it was modern warfare for the time but the ground war was still fought the same as it was for the past 500 plus years
Yes, Admiral Rickover, I was the one who ate your prized seedless grapes from the officer's mess. They were delicious.
I knew it was u!🫡
Maybe the best submarine was the first nuclear powered submarine, The Nautilus. All that have come after are the result of its development. G-d bless the men and women who have the responsibility to protect us and our country.
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Glorious bit of 90s nostalgia warporn narrated by Mark Hamill
On April 10, 1963, I was in the 5th grade.PERMIT. a friend classmate was doing a cross-sectional view of the USS George Washington ballistic missile submarine on the bulletin board in the back of our classroom. Both of our dads worked on submarines in Groton, CT. That morning, on April 10th, my friend came to school, and he told me that the USS Thresher SSN-593 was overdue at returning to Port. I was saddened by her loss. 8 years later, I was assigned to the USS PERMIT SSN-594. My interest in submarines began in 1961 after seeing the movie Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. I'm proud to have served on the USS Permit SSN-594.
Thanks for Sharing that with us!
Much love to you and blessing to you and your family!
Must have been quite an experience!
That is awesome! Thank you for your service!!! Y’all are heroes!
"Seawolf" is the most badass name ever given to a warship, ever.
The "Seawolf" was a diesel electric from WW2 and highly decorated!
It's good, yes, but I would offer 'Dreadnaught' as a solid competitor.
I’m waiting for a ship to be named USS FAFO.
Seawolf faces heavy competition from USS Kraken
Its a sub not a warship
Ah, my favorite submarine ever. Beautiful piece of engineering and plain old American badassery!
My father was a nuke on 575.... did some crazy things that are still classified to this day.
I had four friends on the USS Seawolf SSN-575 in 1971
Not trying to nit- pick here , but speeding past all those ships lost , and fading beyond readable names , seems really disrespectful of all those who perished . Just my opinion.
Agreed
I worked on this bad girl at EB. This sub was a nightmare to build and I don't expect we'll see anymore but the 3 we have currently.
Very sad to admit, you are correct!
With the current state of the Global Politics, we currently need 20 or 30 of the Sea Wolf Class, Fast Attack Submarines!
More well I hope you guys had a bunch of kids that want to follow in your footsteps. Might not be possible to build in a few years more.
@@tomcharter4127they just need to computerize them and allow kids to play them through a new submarine game 🎮.
Why??
@@Lookaturself875 Because.
The place I used to work machined the propellers for Seawolf. Used to have the T-shirt but haven't seen it in years.
MAD mutually Assured Destruction. This thing is serious. The most sophisticated in the world. Now I understand why having these is important , it can be a game changer. They can destroy a surface fleet in stealth and then blast a tomahawk missile with mirv and blow stuff off the map.
I implemented CAD/CAM at DuPont. Our construction rework rate went from 20% to 1.5%.
And maintenance times most likely increased because as a mechanic, sometimes packaging things too tight they don't take into account the physical size and access required to repair/replace parts. As mechanics we hate engineers.
At one point Hamil equates how many stacks of floppy discs? Oh this must be old 😅😅
d got ❤ m S😅
Same exact principle.
Anyone read the book Blind Man’s Bluff? It’s about the history of the US submarine program and I highly recommend it!!
The Seawolf Class needs to go on a war time crash build program of no less that 15 more attack subs in 6-7 years. Looks like they will be needed sooner rather than later in Asia and they give capabilities other attack subs do not have.😊
The Seawolf Class is history; DoD has moved on from Seawolf to the less expensive Virginia Class submarine. We built 3 Seawolves, and have since built 21 Virginia Class boats. Less capable, but also much less expensive - and where submarines are concerned, more is better - much better.
It's about coverage, not capability; these are attack subs, whose job it is - predominantly - to take out enemy shipping with Mk 48 torpedoes, and land-based military facilities with Tomahawk cruise missiles. They have other roles, but that's the primary reason we build them.
Between the 21 Virginias, the 40 688 class subs - 30 of which have Vertical Launch Systems for Tomahawks, and the 3 SSGNs - converted Ohio-class ballistic missile subs now equipped for an attack class role - we are on a major treadmill building the foundation of our anti-Russian fleet, and anti-Chinese fleet, control apparatus. With the buffoons currently running Washington, we may soon need them.
My father worked at EB for 35 years, he was a project manager on the weapons systems for the boomers and fast attacks. Very interesting in the multitude of the various attack and insertion characteristics of subs. Correct EB secured a huge contract to build the VA class and certain aspects were carried over from the Seawolf class. As you noted the Seawolf was very expensive to build. He used to go out on the sea trials for the subs before they fully handed them over to the Navy. Some of the stories he has told me are riveting. Lot's of stuff he could never share because of the classified nature.
@@MrGsteele ❤q😂😂😂😂😂upi
The Seawolf class remains the gold standard even 30 yrs later. Just spare no expense, update the stealth design and build another 15 of these exemplary boats
Omg yes, because without the US Military everywhere, America cannot function. How on earth did America go from being a bunch of farmland and wilderness in 1776... To the richest nation on earth by 1900? We didn't even have soldiers and sailors obsessed with being everywhere, all the time. Yet somehow it happened anyway. Magic.
I worked on SSN 575 and SSN 571 Nautilus as a pipe fitter at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo California where it was decommissioned. Ocean Engineering used this boat for special use and that’s where I worked. I had a Top Secret clearance as all did working on this platform so I can not say what we did and even I din’t know anything about it’s mission. Modular construction did not exist so we constructed every piece of pipe by hand as did all the other trades. We did excellent construction at every step and everything we did was inspected. It was a great time in my career. Today the Ballistic Nuclear Submarine is the most powerful weapons platform on earth, I call it, The Doomsday Machine.
Darn..... I wish I could see a structure like a modern sub up close. I am a little jealous to be honest.
@@NickanM You truly can't appreciate them until your standing in front of and in them.
What an amazing career! Thank you!!
Reference the Virginia class block 5 to see the latest US attack sub. The Sea Wolf successor.
My great uncle, Donald Joseph Naze, perished on the USS Seawolf (SSN-197) during WW2. The sub was sunk by probable freindly fire claiming all on board.
Sorry to hear that about the FF, but those were heroes
SS-197. There were no nuclear submarines during WW II.
@@GH-oi2jf Same ship name given to other ships when no longer in service. A new Ford class carrier under construction now is the Enterprise. The Big E was our first nuclear powered carrier commissioned in 1960.
What about the ohio class vs seawolf?
Saw the interior of a even newer submarine and the wheels and 2+ men used to dive/steer the sub has been replaced with one man and a laptop. He simply inserts or clicks the desired action and the sub does the rest. The cool periscope mechanism you raise/lower turn etc is now a X-box controller. No nuclear engineering degree needed, only X-box EXPERIENCE.
I doubt woke 2024 mark Hamil would narrate a show like this today
The USS Jimmy Carter is the “Seawolf Class” that technically doesnt exist. No “official” home port, mission, and no contact outside except for the officers once underway.
Please don’t talk about 23 so negatively. She lives in Bangor, WA. Officially registered under the Naval Registry. And officers aren’t safe from being restricted to outside contact the same as enlisted (they are)
@@timber_wulf5775say what???
@@Lookaturself875 wikipedia is your friend
My brother was a medic on a nuclear powered sub off the sea of Japan when it's nuclear power was , in Jeperty and was in Need of being shut down !!! He ,and 6 other sea mate's volunteered to shut down the Reactor , least they not be able to Surface !!! ,& They ,weren't supposed to be thier ether !!! They were given an estimate on How long each man had to live ! They Saved the mission !, but ! ,They All were Only given 7 , year's to live !!! , all 6 of the other men died !!! , & my brother was operated on to install a machine into his body to keep him Alive ! I just got him Help to be in another vet Hospital in UTAH ! , cause the veteran's Hospital wouldn't help Help him ! ,His wife fell down in front of him ,with a cartiack & died ,later the next day ! That's What you get ! For serving your country !!! . IT SUCK'S !!! THANKS AMEN !
WW2 Germany did the first module build of submarines. Funny thing is there slave labor made slight changes to random parts that forced the final fitter made corrections and repairs before they could fit the sections together.
It's a bit different building technology on a starvation diet.
They came up with the idea based on Henry Ford and the American car manufacturing industry way of producing all the allied war machinery. Problem was the USA was used to it and pioneered that building model, even without their slave labor tinkering with the subs, they sucked anyway because the Germans didn't have the experience mass producing things like that.
I developed an engineering procedure to weld attach the two main pieces of the steam generator at the dock instead of inland and then ship to dock.
IT'S AN INSPIRING MACHINE and Narrated by Mark Hamil, now that was a surprise but he was really good at it.
Its a display of how inept military vehicle planning is. They went from hundreds to 3. Because it's a flaming piece of shit to build.
Just think how inspiring it would be if it was designed by Disney Imagineers and narrated by Mickey Mouse!
Back when TLC wasn't reality shows
The opener for the video says it all: We have the THICKEST, the LONGEST, the BEST, the FASTEST, and we have the MOST BEAUTIFUL submarine in the world. It can do things others can't... A typical American reportage.
America yea
The most advanced when she was launched... Miles ahead of everything existed..
0:11 Can you imagine being in the sub crew during a rapid surfacing where the bow launches over 60ft above the water, and then falls the height of a 8 story building back below the waves !?!
While this sort of looks like a whale playing on the surface, you have to realize the scale of that sub about 40ft tall (nearly 15m without conning tower) and the nose went way farther into the air, then splashed down to submerged level again.
HOLD ON !! That's taking every person and machine on a wild roller coaster ride.
Tie EvErYtHiNg down (especially the torpedos)... tell the kitchen NoT to be cooking/serving anything at the time, and hope nobody was trying to use the bathroom.
How does a nuclear reactor like being tossed into the air, then dropped five stories or more while still generating about 80% of its rated power ??
( I guess they build 'em Navy tough )
it is just not the same without seeing depth charge mortars exploding all around the submarine.
engineering at it’s finest hats off to the engineers
Yeah, CD-ROM and eliminating paper for floppy disks. So cutting edge. What a load of crap. If these systems were designed and built properly they wouldn't be running the actually real and utterly pathetic "Windows for Warships" as their newest tech.
@@thomaswade3072 LOL no sh!t though.
Until it gets hit by Chinese supersonic missle
It is very impressive
@@michaelleggieri7135Russia/ Ukraine war shows us everything blows up if you shoot it.
Seawolf, she’s a very quiet one. I can only imagine the true damage she can do.
This is so cool!! I just love learning about technology!!
Floppy disks the height of the world trade center
My phone has that memory
My phone has 10 times that amount.
I'm a fitter. I didn't work on any projects at this facility. Newport News back in the day structures are put together in assemblies and subassemblies
Love to all our military..may God protect USA..and our familys
If God is protecting us, what do we need these for?
What's the invisible man in the sky got to do with anything?
God is in the Air Force, he is also “All Knowing” 😂
How does navy select personnel for submarines?
They have to volunteer, then qualify.
Unfortunately these were designed using early CAD/CAM. Many parts were over designed and almost impossible to manufacture. With each unit becoming almost a prototype.
Sure doesn't look impossible to me, lol
What makes you think military-industrial complex engineering facilities stopped designing when the prototype part was made? I've seen instances where fasteners went through 25 revisions after release. Never mind electronics going from SMT (surface mount technology) PC boards to stand-alone integrated devices. Check out how many transistors you can get on the head of a pin. Ever hear of Moore's Law? New advances in AI computer design are making it obsolete. And nowadays, virtually no discrete part is impossible to manufacture. The biggest drawback is the cost of desirable material in quantity (think graphene in large sheets). Another drawback is the current level of available technology, and the reluctance to invest in exploiting new avenues of thought. AutoCAD is a great program, but it isn't the program of choice for high-tech design.
Lived on a 688 for 3 years. Straight up the most broken boat on the east coast. Worst time of my life.
We will know this one day and time when meets with.putin poseindon topendols😈😂👍🙏
Well, battle maneuvers are a feature that might not sit well with commercial transactions modes viability. I still accept the ice burg and sea creatures theory of submarines. Reff: Titanic.
I knew Frank Holland. He was an Engineer aboard the Nautilus, when it sailed under the North Pole. He passed away, abput ten years ago.
I also met the retired and elderly General Electric Engineer who designed the electrical control system for its reactor.
I've been in the Reactor Compartment of the Nautilus. Oh its tight. Even dusted off the display dummies. All things Nautilus are cool.
@@lawrenceleverton7426 I'm sure it is. Frank told mr about the issues on their shakedown cruise. He and another crew member created the postal stamp to mark a batch of mail, as they went under the North Ole. After his time in the Navy, he taught Nuclear Safety.
Is Mark Hamill from Star Wars really narrating this?
Yes
This program (Seawolf) has as been around for 4 decades.
This is ancient technology...
Not as ancient as you believe. The current VA fast attacks replaced the Seawolf. Lot's of characteristics are taken from the Seawolf.
Our military machine can't hold a feather to China ! It is ancient tech! Planned obsolescence!
What year was this film made?
8:53
The first shots fired in the gulf war were by the assets of Operation Secret Squirrel out of Barksdale.
596 BS
Excalibur
You generally cruise at about 60% power, at full tilt she can do 45-50 but it's not recommended to run like that for long.
When building them they had issues with material on the other hull sheering off. Not to mention the highly classified speed and depth.
45-50? Holy...$#÷&!
@@AluminataI believe it went closer to 60.
@chadjackson5113 that is a truly insane power train!
It’s an insane level of hull design that’s capable of being pushed that fast. However, a large submarine going at full tilt will leave a wake in the sea surface. US has satellites to look for these wakes.
Did he say SHOOT? 😂
Focus on saving the planet not blowing it up
You guys have my respect.......thank yous all........amen
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Luke.......I AM your father.
That order could skyrocket if a global conflict breaks
I don't like showing the technology. Of Navy fleet.
@39:40
I find it interesting that today everyone says the Hunley sank the Housatonic, yet this documentary and others say it only inflicted minor damage. So which is it?
The Huniey DID sink Housatonic, well documented, but never came back. Lost with all crew. Had sunk in shallow water with her crew during trials. Poor design and concept. Has been raised and is in a museum
Also, the torpedo was not towed behind but was mounted on a spar attached to the bow. Whoever wrote this didn't do their homework.
Excuse me but as I recall we are in the 21st Century.
Barely watchable due to the selection of Hamill a narrator!
Kind of interesting that the information about thresher is totally false
This looks like its from 1998
The only thing about watching older documentaries is hindsight I guess. I’ve watched a few videos like this and they all mention the world trade centre. Oof 😥
It was the tallest building in the world at this point. Definitely america
This is the most sophisticated submarine of the 1990s. They even have manuals on CD-ROM lol
Lol my Dad worked at EB for 35 years (PM weapons). I remember the binders he would come home with.
@@ActionJ26 thats awesome haha. Yeah I was a Stryker ICV driver in Iraq, I actually have 2 binders just for that vehicle haha.
Yep CD-ROM's were cutting edge technology in the early 90's before DVD's came out. I was still listening to a cassette player when this sub was depeloped.
It makes no difference whatsoever how advanced a weapon is if you don't have the best people/ person trained to use it.. When it comes to submarines the Royal Navy are no 1. All the very best USN submarine Captains have training by the Royal Navy, fact, whether you like it or not.
Shame the program was cancelled with only 3 built.
The 3 Built helped in the designing of the Va Class. And they are awesome. Cap't Dave said the Seawolf was so fast things fall off. Believe him.
This is true my father worked at EB. The issue was the outer hull covering on the initial build it would sheer off. It was the fastest sub in the world. The cost was the reason they only built a few.
@@lawrenceleverton7426 The Seawolf was quieter at top speed than the Va class sitting in the harber. It's in a class of its own. Exceptionally well designed and built.
The floppy disk reference was a terrible way to state the complexity of the submarine lmao.
Dont worry world our military is #1 all you have to do is have your nation read, think critically, have good roads, schools & hospitals and understand that only women can have babies and youll have USA beat 😂😂
7:16 I disagree. Those were the most dangerous times in world history not just American. A nuclear war wouldn’t just affect American soil and Soviet soil. That would be a world wide catastrophe.
I analyze steel for scrap brokers and was wondering what was up with the HY 100 I was finding. Have lots of HY 80 and HY 140
HY-80 and HY-100 are both weldable grades, whereas the HY-130 is generally considered unweldable. HY-80 is considered to have good corrosion resistance and has good formability to supplement being weldable.
That’s 10980s tech in a 1990s hull, no it’s not the world’s most advanced sub by far. Even when it was launched it wasn’t the most advanced.
The only thing that the submarine is good for nuclear missiles other then. That's not that good.😢😮😅😊
Liquid plasma display screens. A very old technology. LED or OLED of several types now instead.
Oh, from 1975 to 1985, I helped build the Seawolf, Los Angeles, and Ohio class submarines.
I can't wait until they make it controlled via cellphone making it a large power suit like Ironman 80s news on future advanced navy also on tube air craft carrier captain controlling aircraft fighter jet with his cellphone awesome dick Tracy technology here now
These are my favourite documentaries to watch because your voice and the soundtrack is so relaxing
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I have experienced the sea wolf in navy created simulator modern warships in arcade Peter pan Bayside q ny now app game it's still my number one tier3 purple exotic they literally run away for real sea wolf tier2 maxed out upgrades
Submaine? I think you have a typo in your screen
You didn't see anything... 👀
The liberty ship but didn't build his sub modular
All why all promoting most powerful branch of all armed forces excluding up and coming spacefoce even better
I used to take the subway to work. God Bless Submariners.
I imagine a future were iron man gear is the main and navy vessel s become relistate and in Northern competition a new Olympic sport
In Groton sandwiches are called grinders. Not submarine sandwiches.
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Instead of sinking relistate they can put homeless families on there with automated weapons the size of a floating mansion
The scriptwriter made a major blunder, and I wonder why Mr Hamill didn’t do some homework on subs. The word “ship” is used countless times, and I find it sickening. A submarine is NOT a ship. It is a BOAT!! Remember this when watching another doco about subs.
I visited all Submarine every parts when I was working as Field Marshall in Submarine fleet.
Never able to fully determine what caused the Thresher catastrophe? So..... the navy had no idea what to change/fix or reengineer. I call BS. The statement was "not able to fully determine the cause". I think that means they did learn what malfunction/failed and kept it from being released and known to this day. To much money involved, keeping the "enemy" from knowing as little as possible, and most importantly, not being sued by the families of the perished men of the Thresher. Which would cause even more discovery. Which would cause an even bigger cover up effort. Regardless, the Navy was and is liable. I'm sure they still do not see it that way. Smh........
Yeah great book!
Want to see concept design of space wolf attack anti gravity sub ship and space ship photon torpedoes
Brand new thirty years ago? Am I correct. Maybe that's where they grew the inspiration for a name that TV show airwolf
You're the one telling this story, it is the most advanced Nuclear submarine or not?
This channel is NOT telling the story. They simply uploaded a video that was already produced, narrated by the original producers. This was originally created in the 90s... and posted on Television... and on 🎥 🎞 VHS & DVDs 📀. This channel has taken the original video and added it to their channel. Or has taken the video from another channel & put it on their own channel/page. So they aren't the ones able to give you the answers. They are just here for the views, clicks, & hoping to get paid... and hoping to get advertising dollars... for posting ONLY!
This was unnecesary lengty. It was not titled the whole story about...
This production is owned byu NatGeo and not licensed to this channel.
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So many people commenting here seem to find documentaries like this, which showcase state-of-the-art technology at the time, hysterically funny. Perhaps they lack the awareness to see that today's state-of-the-art technology may seem just as 'laughable' 30 years from now. They also seem to forget that these systems don't stand still but are constantly being upgraded.
Today's technology didn't spring into being out of nowhere. It's the result of decades, even hundreds of years, of technological innovation and evolution.
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11:47 we now know if a force makes threats about knowing where your at or that they know your on your way it’s just a scare tactic. It’s really the force making the threat that’s scared. But those times were different times yeah it was modern warfare for the time but the ground war was still fought the same as it was for the past 500 plus years
Narrated by Mark Hamill?
It's old now but must still be comparable to the LHC. Or the latest iteration of it.
Its still way ahead of the Virginia class even now
WTF US sending millions to Ukraine
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