It’s why I became a submariner, and Petty Officer Jones made me want to be a Sonar Technician, like Sub Brief was. I am very fortunate that I was able to be a Sonar Tech and Supervisor on Fast Attack submarines! The hunt for Red October is still my favorite sub movie, even if some others manage to be more accurate.
@@Kuzitube agreed, I read all of Tom Clancy’s books, but am always partial to the Ryan series. I even read the new ones that have his name on them, even though he passed over 10 years ago now.
Some trivia: The main designer for Rubin, who was in charge during the Delta, Typhoon and Oscar development - Igor Spassky - died just a few days ago - 3rd Sept 2024.
'How many Typhoons do we have in the computer?' 'Six, sir.' 'Okay. We'll call this guy Typhoon-7. Let's get a tape on him. I'll see if we can get a little closer.'
They actually did build seven of them. One of them was lost at sea. Its name with the Red October. It was commanded by a Russian with a Scottish accent.
Briefing on the Typhoon: what Sub Brief was made for, in the eyes of landlubbers like me. "Yeah, I know all about submarines: I rode them for years at Disneyland!" ;). Thanks for this, looking forward to it.
Many submarines have gone to Disneyland with their parents in their youth. Then they became marines and went to the real Disneyland without their parents. Many of them became overmarines. Others have stayed marines ever since. Even some mafia guys sleep with the fishes.
This submarine displaced approximately the same amount of water as the WW2 Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-5. That is an absolutely massive submarine.
I guess they always ran their radar on the surface because it took 20 minutes to dive. I'd like to have time to pull the Strela out and get my life jacket on too.
FUN FACT: the Hiroshima bomb "Little Boy" was 15Kt (kilotons) so each of these Russian warheads is 6-10 times more bang and there's 10 warheads per ICBM making each ICBM 60-100 times more bang than the solitary B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. AND these subs carried 20 of them. AND the Ohio class has similar numbers.
@@GrahamCStrouse I did say it has similar numbers. Plus the Virginias with the VPM can either have 4 Tridents with 8 MIRVS each or a 28 tomhawks each with a warhead each plus how many tomahawks they choose to launch out the torpedo tubes or the VLS system. Yeah I know the tomahawks were restricted under one of the treaties but the Russians tore that treaty up. I once calculated what the potential kilotons of an Ohio compared to Hiroshima and the number was truly scary. It then gets even more scary when you consider how many Ohio-class are out there and then whatever the Virginias carry. I don't think people actually realise the true potential of destruction of these systems.
@@gregorylyon1004 Sure. But as with any sub: The elements are out there trying to get You. And the Kursk was most likely sunk by some stupid decision (although we'll probably never know for sure). The thing is still a legendary sub.
I'm confused, didn't he already do a video on the Typhoon? Edit: nvm, got it clarified in another comment. (He did. Some new info added, and some removed, in this one)
I remember seeing this proposed schematic of Project 941 submarines turned to transport submarines... Was probably done by Rubin Design Bureau. Funny note, I have seen on YT several videos, where they speak of Akula class, they usually mean Proj. 971 aka Nato codename Alfa, but have multiple pictures of Proj. 941 Akula aka Nato codename Typhoon there instead. Nice video this one, also if check older satellite picture/ Google maps of area near that Shipyard, there are multiple Typhoons parked, one was seen as unloading those missiles.🥸😎🤓🤔
@@schr75 971 "Akula" is called Shchuka in Russia, which means "Pike". 941 "Typhoon" is actually "Akula" in Russia. NATO's misinformation at it's best LOL
@@_sneer_ I know that. I corrected the comment that NATO called Pr971 Alfa. That is Pr705. Besides. The Shchuka is the Pr 671, or NATO Victor 3 class. Pr971 is called Shchuka-B. There is no NATO misinformation, simply two different naming systems for the same subs. "LOL" 🙄
@@_sneer_ In order to get a joke, it have to be at least marginally funny. You are just trying to cover the fact that you were mistaken instead of just owning up to it.
Joined the NAVY partly because this channel made me very interested in sonar. Finished bootcamp and now im in school. Thank you for what you do brother!
About 5:05 and stowable forward hydroplanes. I know I am getting really technically here. But the soviet navy did indeed have boats with stowable forward hydroplanes before the USN did, because of the german type XXI, they operated right after the war. And even you you want to talk about soviet designed boats only, the Whisky class (as is to be expected for a XXI developed boat) had them as well as son as ´49. Thats of course only if you ignore the flat-to-the-hull-folding planes.
OMG i thought the beginning of Red October was the most beautiful thing ever as an impressionable young teenager. Old navy military duty, this enormous submarine, Sean Connery & Sam Neill, stirring choral music... It wasnt until much MUCH later and many re-watches that I realized Red October was obviously being towed at 0.4kts by that litle fleet of sh1tty old fishing boats that were nearly as big as she was. But even with that realization I am still 200% there for all of that. It's time, Kapitan 🥹
Royal Navy Sigint retired here.. thanks for the video, some of those stats were a little conservative from what I remember. It was a very impressive boat tor sure, just a shame it could sound like a food mixer sometimes 😂 Just found your channel and will most certainly subscribe 👍
In regards to the MANPAD, I’ve always thought that the German IDAS and longer range systems need to be integrated our subs. It’s my opinion that even a decoy coupled with an air to air missile could certainly help elude the helos.
You forgot to mention that one experimental one with the magnetic drive that was so quiet it could park a couple hundred nukes off the coast of Washington and no one would know anything about it until it was all over
pleased to hear credit where credit is due for this iconic machine. It must have been something to see. Pleased also that they never used their main weapon in anger. I hope we can say the same for every SSBN class.
Aaron do you have a brief on the Singapore Invincible Class Diesel/ AIP boats that are replacing the Challenger and Archer Diesel Electric boats? I believe they are German made to Singaporean Specifications using features of the Type 214 and 212 with a fuel cell AIP. Particularly interested to see if they have fitted the RESUS system of emergency ballast blow! Cheers, Love your work!
This one’s updated since it’s mentioning the Donskoy being decommed last year, but it is using some of the old brief slides but with new audio. There’s new info added and few things removed compared to the OG brief.
One ping only. I've always been fascinated by this monster design! Lay-person question; could you mitigate the danger from wake-homing torpedoes by ceasing to move through the water, or does it also have other detection capabilites?
If you stop your wake leads up to your stopped ship. The tactic we were told in the mid 90s was to make a looping turn to cross your own wake and leave a non-directional “knuckle” in the water in hopes of confusing the wake homing.
Certainly is impressive. Although we should remember that the Soviet spent about 14% of their GDP on their military And they had a command and control economy so they could actually spend even more. If Stalin said steel costs so many rubles per ton, that's exactly what it cost, regardless of actual inputs. I am curious how we got so much information on this design. Did we get this information when we helped disassemble their Fleet at the end of the Cold War? Or did we get information from actually getting close to them and using various intelligence techniques? Well I guess we'll never find out. Speaking of things will never find out, you show a lot of respect to this submarine class. It's almost as if you dealt with it.
America is following the same path as soviet union with military GPD percentage spending. Talked to people while in the military industrial complex, it won't stop till something drastic happens like dollar crash were all non "allied" nations jump ship. If soviet union had easy wars at regular intervals, making money from gold and other valuable assets sized like we have done, they would have kept going.
Sinking seems like a term that needs clarification. Do submariners have separate terms for sinking on purpose vs an emergency? Like diving vs foundering?
Really - do you know that American naval reactors are also manually controlled? I'm an engineer and a technician I worked with circa 2007 was an ex-USN nuclear power plant operator. I'm Australian and we were working on an Australian mine site together and the subject of Australia NOT wanting its next subs (at that time) to be nuclear came up one day. Yeah I had the AUKUS discussion almost 20 years before it became a real discussion. FYI - since those discussions I have been 100% pro-nuclear powered subs for Australia, but the Virginia is NOT the right sub for Australia and never will be but that's another discussion. What came up was how safe are these reactors and he described (without disclosing anything classified) how he was trained and how they operate USN reactors. The level of what he had to do in his training was amazing. Failing any exam meant being kicked out of the course and the pass marks weren't 50% they were more like 90%. The reason (he explained) why the training was so strict was because of the way the operated the reactors, which is mostly manual. Because in a nuclear exchange there's the chance of an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) shutting down all the electrical controls they decided to have as little computer control and automation as possible. There was always some but in general American Naval reactors are manually controlled. That might be changing in the next generation of reactors because not only do we know how to shield better against things like an EMP but also because computer systems can now be made so reliable that the chances of a mistake is measured in 1,000s of years. Those sorts of computers are also a much longer discussion. The French certainly use a lot more automation in their subs which is evident by the fact their crew size is less than 1/2 that of a Virginia.
@tonywilson4713 I was an American nuclear power plant operator. EM2(SS). Los Angeles class. I stand by my statement. To manually raise rods, physically, in the reactor compartment? Standing g on top of the Rx itself? No frakking way. In no way, shape, or form was I talking about the Reactor Operator turning the switch and shimming up and down. Completely different. I was referring to the SL-1 incident. I learned about that in NNPS, and had to verify that it was public knowledge before mentioning it directly.
@@ObeyWannTK6960 Mate I am not disagreeing with you. I was just pointing out that fundamentally US Naval reactors are also manually controlled and anyway you should know that better than I do. Plus he never said the Russians stand on top of the reactor and grab the rods with their hands and pulled. My bet is there is some sort of hand crank or pneumatic system to do the job. Looking at the photo it my be a pneumatic system because there's what looks like supply lines (thin white tubes) going to cylinders. I found an interesting Reddit page with the same photo that Aaron used in this video at 20:50. There's a couple of comments by other ex-USN people there which are kind of interesting. One guy points out that physical size difference in the OK-650 and how they mounted the reactor below the floor of the compartment where the control rods could be accessed. That's why they aren't wearing any Anti-C clothing. So its not built like a USN reactor or reactor compartment. I dug a little further and found a Norwegian report on Russian nuclear reactors for marine applications. It doesn't give an explicit answer to this but what's clear is there is a mechanism for inserting and removing the control rods from Russian reactors that's controlled from the control room and that there is also some sort of manual override for that system if the rods become stuck. So the manual procedure Aaron is talking about is common to Russian reactors for marine applications and that its a back-up rather than the primary means of control.
Nothing to do with the typhon but in France we have the redoutable ballistic submarine turn into a museum in the Cité de la Mer naval museum in Cherbourg-Octeville . So if anyone want to visit France outside Paris and like nuclear submarine .
If I have it correct, I believe the advance technology of the Seawolf Class Submarine was because it was meant to hunt Typhoons. I guess that contributed to its contract cancellation once the USSR collapsed.
I understand with flank arrays, or towed line I suppose, range AND bearing can be known with passive sonar only. Anyway, as an STG from the early '80s, I wonder how many mk.46 torpedoes it could take before its over? I'd bet at least 2..
There are some rather epic sounding NATO names for Russian aircraft. By comparison, soviet submarine classes got boringly named after the NATO alphabet (Echo, Delta, Victor) for most of the cold war.
With aircraft they’re somewhat limited by needing to have the reporting name begin with the first letter of the type. F for fighter, B for bomber and so one. With subs the reporting names are a bit more flexible, Delta, Mike, Oscar, Kilo ….
Strelas sound stupid on the sub. But if you're being chased by a couple helicopters. Couple guys, couple strelas, one escape pod. They could cover your retreat pretty well. Don't know if those escape pods open from the inside though.
The most emblematic sub of the cold war. I get confused. Was there not a smaller hunter-killer submarine with a tailplane mounted sonar bulge that was called the Akula in NATO parlance?
"Give me a ping, Vashilly. One ping only, pleashe."
...vashilly....
one ping only pleashe.
The Hunt for Red October is what got me interested in subs and stuff. Every time I see a Typhoon, I think of that movie.
My grandpa was a submariner, and as a kid I would sit and watch that movie with him and he would tell me his Navy stories. Miss him dearly.
They should have renamed it! 😂
It’s why I became a submariner, and Petty Officer Jones made me want to be a Sonar Technician, like Sub Brief was. I am very fortunate that I was able to be a Sonar Tech and Supervisor on Fast Attack submarines! The hunt for Red October is still my favorite sub movie, even if some others manage to be more accurate.
You should read the book, it’s even better imo
@@Kuzitube agreed, I read all of Tom Clancy’s books, but am always partial to the Ryan series. I even read the new ones that have his name on them, even though he passed over 10 years ago now.
Some trivia: The main designer for Rubin, who was in charge during the Delta, Typhoon and Oscar development - Igor Spassky - died just a few days ago - 3rd Sept 2024.
That sub was equipped with a sauna, pool, a lounge and a gym.
The death of a truly gifted designer.
He won't be forgotten any time soon.
At least, not in Russia.
RIP
@@alexanderleach3365 I'm sure the Russians had a lot of fun in the sauna while under the arctic ice.
Requiescat In Pace to a submarine design titan.
Take it easy Igor - you deserve the rest
Fun fact: original design has been SIGNIFICANTLY SCALED DOWN to fit existing on-shore infrastructure.
“ENGAGE CATERPILLAR DRIVE!”
'CATERPILLAR ENGAGING!'
Actually the something close to it ... The pumps in reactors had the same frequency @ dead slow speeds so it was near impossible to detect it .
We sail into history!
@@taras3702 Caterpillar engaging!
'How many Typhoons do we have in the computer?'
'Six, sir.'
'Okay. We'll call this guy Typhoon-7. Let's get a tape on him. I'll see if we can get a little closer.'
there was a petition to put the last one on display in park patriot museum, shame it didn't go through, legendary sub
The one by Moscow? I can see why.
This thing needs about double the water depth you
get in the river or canal.
If any modern submarine should have been turned into a museum ship, this is the one.
@@alexeyvlasenko6622 the reactors make it overly complicated. That’s why hardly any nuclear vessels are museum ships
@@operation4wheelzTrue dat. Pretty sure the Nautilus is a museum ship, though, isn’t it?
@@GrahamCStrouse it might be. I know it’s just a massive issue converting them to a museum.
They actually did build seven of them. One of them was lost at sea. Its name with the Red October. It was commanded by a Russian with a Scottish accent.
Actually, he was Lithuanian by birth.
No mention of the recreational area and an actual pool on board of the sub? Seems like an oversight.
Briefing on the Typhoon: what Sub Brief was made for, in the eyes of landlubbers like me. "Yeah, I know all about submarines: I rode them for years at Disneyland!" ;). Thanks for this, looking forward to it.
Many submarines have gone to Disneyland with their parents in their youth. Then they became marines and went to the real Disneyland without their parents. Many of them became overmarines. Others have stayed marines ever since. Even some mafia guys sleep with the fishes.
Road? That's called a street. Rode is what you do when you have ridden a bike or a sub
@@RogerRamjet156 Or one coud ride a ride. Saw saw saw salsa.
I’ve feel like a Typhoon-class boomer would make an awesome mobile lair for a supervillain. I kinda want one, too…
Ya really!
This submarine displaced approximately the same amount of water as the WW2 Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-5. That is an absolutely massive submarine.
I guess they always ran their radar on the surface because it took 20 minutes to dive. I'd like to have time to pull the Strela out and get my life jacket on too.
I never appreciated how giant they were as a kid. Absolutely monsters.
Where’s the magneto hydrodynamic propulsion?
I gotta check with a guy, his name is "Skip", you know em'?
@@keithdrewv1161 yeah… sub driver. He was, lost his leg in an accident.
Photos shop to edit out the good stuff.
@@operation4wheelz could you fire an ICBM horizontally?
@@keithdrewv1161Sure, why would you want to?
For anyone cracking Red October joke trying for a quick laugh: Well, you should be. Personally, I'd give you one chance in three.
I saw what you did there. 😁
FUN FACT: the Hiroshima bomb "Little Boy" was 15Kt (kilotons) so each of these Russian warheads is 6-10 times more bang and there's 10 warheads per ICBM making each ICBM 60-100 times more bang than the solitary B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.
AND these subs carried 20 of them.
AND the Ohio class has similar numbers.
The Ohios were designed with 24 tubes. Each missile has 8 MIRVs.
@@GrahamCStrouse I did say it has similar numbers.
Plus the Virginias with the VPM can either have 4 Tridents with 8 MIRVS each or a 28 tomhawks each with a warhead each plus how many tomahawks they choose to launch out the torpedo tubes or the VLS system. Yeah I know the tomahawks were restricted under one of the treaties but the Russians tore that treaty up.
I once calculated what the potential kilotons of an Ohio compared to Hiroshima and the number was truly scary. It then gets even more scary when you consider how many Ohio-class are out there and then whatever the Virginias carry.
I don't think people actually realise the true potential of destruction of these systems.
@@tonywilson4713 so when and how the Russians Thore that treaty
Holy Hell, Aaron. You just made me very happy. One of my favorite subs...
Thanks, man.
Wasn't the Kursk a Typhoon class submarine???? LOL
@@gregorylyon1004 Sure. But as with any sub: The elements are out there trying to get You. And the Kursk was most likely sunk by some stupid decision (although we'll probably never know for sure). The thing is still a legendary sub.
@@gregorylyon1004no
Kursk is Oscar II SSGN
Laughing at peoples deaths? Yeah you're 100% American. @@gregorylyon1004
small correction, the submerged displacement was 48,000 tonnes not just 26,500 like you said on 1:42
Babe wake up a new sub brief just dropped
I'm confused, didn't he already do a video on the Typhoon?
Edit: nvm, got it clarified in another comment. (He did. Some new info added, and some removed, in this one)
Thank for a wonderful brief! The hunt for red October was my favorite movie growing up in the 80s and 90s!!
25 knots downhill 😂
In the late 80's we used to joke in Wardrooms that the USN sub captain that ever sank that would get an immediate Navy Cross
I remember seeing this proposed schematic of Project 941 submarines turned to transport submarines... Was probably done by Rubin Design Bureau. Funny note, I have seen on YT several videos, where they speak of Akula class, they usually mean Proj. 971 aka Nato codename Alfa, but have multiple pictures of Proj. 941 Akula aka Nato codename Typhoon there instead. Nice video this one, also if check older satellite picture/ Google maps of area near that Shipyard, there are multiple Typhoons parked, one was seen as unloading those missiles.🥸😎🤓🤔
Project 971 is called Akula by NATO. The Alfa class was the Project 705 Lira.
@@schr75 971 "Akula" is called Shchuka in Russia, which means "Pike". 941 "Typhoon" is actually "Akula" in Russia. NATO's misinformation at it's best LOL
@@_sneer_ I know that. I corrected the comment that NATO called Pr971 Alfa. That is Pr705. Besides. The Shchuka is the Pr 671, or NATO Victor 3 class. Pr971 is called Shchuka-B. There is no NATO misinformation, simply two different naming systems for the same subs. "LOL" 🙄
@@schr75 you must be fun at parties. That "LOL" was used to hint a joke. How did you not get that?
@@_sneer_ In order to get a joke, it have to be at least marginally funny. You are just trying to cover the fact that you were mistaken instead of just owning up to it.
Joined the NAVY partly because this channel made me very interested in sonar. Finished bootcamp and now im in school. Thank you for what you do brother!
Right full rudder! All back starboard shaft!
About 5:05 and stowable forward hydroplanes.
I know I am getting really technically here. But the soviet navy did indeed have boats with stowable forward hydroplanes before the USN did, because of the german type XXI, they operated right after the war. And even you you want to talk about soviet designed boats only, the Whisky class (as is to be expected for a XXI developed boat) had them as well as son as ´49.
Thats of course only if you ignore the flat-to-the-hull-folding planes.
Con sonar crazy Ivan
All are decommissioned. Some have been scrapped, others are waiting their turn.
Two are reported in reserves.
@@alexanderleach3365to be museums i bel
This channel has the besyt most comprehensive break down of subs and ships there is. Great work, very thorough!
OMG i thought the beginning of Red October was the most beautiful thing ever as an impressionable young teenager. Old navy military duty, this enormous submarine, Sean Connery & Sam Neill, stirring choral music...
It wasnt until much MUCH later and many re-watches that I realized Red October was obviously being towed at 0.4kts by that litle fleet of sh1tty old fishing boats that were nearly as big as she was.
But even with that realization I am still 200% there for all of that. It's time, Kapitan 🥹
"Vasily, please stop stroking the warhead."
"Don't worry, it won't explode."
"That's what they always say."
Royal Navy Sigint retired here.. thanks for the video, some of those stats were a little conservative from what I remember. It was a very impressive boat tor sure, just a shame it could sound like a food mixer sometimes 😂
Just found your channel and will most certainly subscribe 👍
Thanks for renew about Akula sub!! Great like always!
I know bigger isn't always better, but just the sheer size and look of these beasts always impressed me
That looks like a giant pontoon boat wrapped in a submarine.
In regards to the MANPAD, I’ve always thought that the German IDAS and longer range systems need to be integrated our subs. It’s my opinion that even a decoy coupled with an air to air missile could certainly help elude the helos.
Very well thought out as usual.
Another professional and entertaining presentation ! 😊
You forgot to mention that one experimental one with the magnetic drive that was so quiet it could park a couple hundred nukes off the coast of Washington and no one would know anything about it until it was all over
pleased to hear credit where credit is due for this iconic machine. It must have been something to see. Pleased also that they never used their main weapon in anger. I hope we can say the same for every SSBN class.
That sub is really special
Pretty sure the strela-3 was also graze fused. Also I wish you would have commented on the passive cooling for the reactors.
As a Clancy fan, I was waiting for that one !!
Btw Aaron, did you managed to get your hands on a *Sea Power* copy for review ?
I wonder why Aaron didn’t get on the short list first the Beta release?? I guess there must be history behind it.
"25 knots downhill" made me chuckle
Hi Aaron, i had to Hunt for this video in October. I was quite Red in the face for the notifications not working.
Glad to see this one again.
thank you for your work!
USSR/Russia always been convinced that troops from the west were going to come marching east… which I guess did happen a couple of times
Hey Jive this channel has grown so much in the last 5 years, good work .awesome man
Aaron do you have a brief on the Singapore Invincible Class Diesel/ AIP boats that are replacing the Challenger and Archer Diesel Electric boats? I believe they are German made to Singaporean Specifications using features of the Type 214 and 212 with a fuel cell AIP. Particularly interested to see if they have fitted the RESUS system of emergency ballast blow!
Cheers,
Love your work!
What a beautiful submarine
It's a good vid when you're hyped about the ship.
And what incredible ship it is.
A " BIG BLEEPIN' " Boat...nuff said!
Awesome! Thanks AAron!
The best part of this is that he actually encountered these in the cold war
400kg warhead, not 2000kg
The nickname was "Водовоз", "Water Carrier"
Keep it up, man. I love your videos they are super informative and easily digestavle for people. Thanks, man. Love from West Virginia ❤️
Oh laaaawd she sailin'
I am having a bit of a deja-vu with this one... Feels like I have seen a sub-brief from you on this one before. Is this a re-upload?
Yes. I think he has had to remove some parts.
This one’s updated since it’s mentioning the Donskoy being decommed last year, but it is using some of the old brief slides but with new audio. There’s new info added and few things removed compared to the OG brief.
@@davidarich2 i see. Thank you
Where's the magneto-hydrodynamic drive?
Really interesting sub brief, thanks a lot!!
Quite honestly in event of hot war the typhoons would launch their slbm straight from the dock onto the required targets no need for tugs.
Manually pull rods to criticality… In the reactor compartment… No thanks, comrade! Not even for the Rodina!
I wonder if they have a drinking game for that 😄
@@Hazmatt3446 reminded me of the SL-1 meltdown where somebody pulled a rod too far on accident and the rod pinned him to the roof...
@@renardgrise exactly! Nothing to see here…. Move along 🤣🤣
@@renardgrise exactly. No. Hellz no.
@@renardgrise No one remembers PO Bob Shishka...
One ping only. I've always been fascinated by this monster design!
Lay-person question; could you mitigate the danger from wake-homing torpedoes by ceasing to move through the water, or does it also have other detection capabilites?
If you stop your wake leads up to your stopped ship. The tactic we were told in the mid 90s was to make a looping turn to cross your own wake and leave a non-directional “knuckle” in the water in hopes of confusing the wake homing.
When they built it they never had plans for how to retire it. Strongly recommend watching documentary on youtube showing how they dismantled these.
Been waiting for this one. Friggin iconic.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Has a small swimming pool for exercise
16:09 Lenin - yes, Stalin - maybe, Trocki - rather no (Stalin did not like him)
Certainly is impressive. Although we should remember that the Soviet spent about 14% of their GDP on their military And they had a command and control economy so they could actually spend even more. If Stalin said steel costs so many rubles per ton, that's exactly what it cost, regardless of actual inputs.
I am curious how we got so much information on this design. Did we get this information when we helped disassemble their Fleet at the end of the Cold War? Or did we get information from actually getting close to them and using various intelligence techniques? Well I guess we'll never find out.
Speaking of things will never find out, you show a lot of respect to this submarine class. It's almost as if you dealt with it.
America is following the same path as soviet union with military GPD percentage spending.
Talked to people while in the military industrial complex, it won't stop till something drastic happens like dollar crash were all non "allied" nations jump ship.
If soviet union had easy wars at regular intervals, making money from gold and other valuable assets sized like we have done, they would have kept going.
German Type 21 was the first action-seeing sub with retractable Bow-planes
Love the lectures, pimp
The Soviets never called that submarine a Typhoon class submarine. It's a type 941
Sinking seems like a term that needs clarification. Do submariners have separate terms for sinking on purpose vs an emergency? Like diving vs foundering?
What about the pool?!?
More a hot tub than a pool.
Sean Connery had one of those....
Ohhh Josey you no go!! Boyeeeeeeee
Another great video thanks mate
You're not kidding. Those were *_big_* subs.
Did you say "manually raising the control rods -- that was a procedure?" Oh, Hell NO!!! No frakking way would I trust their shielding.
Really - do you know that American naval reactors are also manually controlled?
I'm an engineer and a technician I worked with circa 2007 was an ex-USN nuclear power plant operator.
I'm Australian and we were working on an Australian mine site together and the subject of Australia NOT wanting its next subs (at that time) to be nuclear came up one day. Yeah I had the AUKUS discussion almost 20 years before it became a real discussion. FYI - since those discussions I have been 100% pro-nuclear powered subs for Australia, but the Virginia is NOT the right sub for Australia and never will be but that's another discussion.
What came up was how safe are these reactors and he described (without disclosing anything classified) how he was trained and how they operate USN reactors. The level of what he had to do in his training was amazing. Failing any exam meant being kicked out of the course and the pass marks weren't 50% they were more like 90%. The reason (he explained) why the training was so strict was because of the way the operated the reactors, which is mostly manual.
Because in a nuclear exchange there's the chance of an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) shutting down all the electrical controls they decided to have as little computer control and automation as possible. There was always some but in general American Naval reactors are manually controlled. That might be changing in the next generation of reactors because not only do we know how to shield better against things like an EMP but also because computer systems can now be made so reliable that the chances of a mistake is measured in 1,000s of years. Those sorts of computers are also a much longer discussion.
The French certainly use a lot more automation in their subs which is evident by the fact their crew size is less than 1/2 that of a Virginia.
@tonywilson4713 I was an American nuclear power plant operator. EM2(SS). Los Angeles class. I stand by my statement. To manually raise rods, physically, in the reactor compartment? Standing g on top of the Rx itself?
No frakking way.
In no way, shape, or form was I talking about the Reactor Operator turning the switch and shimming up and down. Completely different.
I was referring to the SL-1 incident. I learned about that in NNPS, and had to verify that it was public knowledge before mentioning it directly.
@@ObeyWannTK6960 Mate I am not disagreeing with you.
I was just pointing out that fundamentally US Naval reactors are also manually controlled and anyway you should know that better than I do.
Plus he never said the Russians stand on top of the reactor and grab the rods with their hands and pulled. My bet is there is some sort of hand crank or pneumatic system to do the job. Looking at the photo it my be a pneumatic system because there's what looks like supply lines (thin white tubes) going to cylinders.
I found an interesting Reddit page with the same photo that Aaron used in this video at 20:50. There's a couple of comments by other ex-USN people there which are kind of interesting. One guy points out that physical size difference in the OK-650 and how they mounted the reactor below the floor of the compartment where the control rods could be accessed. That's why they aren't wearing any Anti-C clothing.
So its not built like a USN reactor or reactor compartment.
I dug a little further and found a Norwegian report on Russian nuclear reactors for marine applications. It doesn't give an explicit answer to this but what's clear is there is a mechanism for inserting and removing the control rods from Russian reactors that's controlled from the control room and that there is also some sort of manual override for that system if the rods become stuck.
So the manual procedure Aaron is talking about is common to Russian reactors for marine applications and that its a back-up rather than the primary means of control.
3:14 offense is the best defense
Constantly checking your channel for a Sea Power review. I’m at the point that if this guy gives this game a thumbs up, then I’ll buy it.
Nothing to do with the typhon but in France we have the redoutable ballistic submarine turn into a museum in the Cité de la Mer naval museum in Cherbourg-Octeville . So if anyone want to visit France outside Paris and like nuclear submarine .
If I have it correct, I believe the advance technology of the Seawolf Class Submarine was because it was meant to hunt Typhoons. I guess that contributed to its contract cancellation once the USSR collapsed.
I understand with flank arrays, or towed line I suppose, range AND bearing can be known with passive sonar only.
Anyway, as an STG from the early '80s, I wonder how many mk.46 torpedoes it could take before its over? I'd bet at least 2..
48,000 tons submerged displacement. You were stating it's surfaced displacement.
Funny how with aircraft Nato is like name it frog foot, then when it comes to subs they are like give it an epic name like Typhoon.
There are some rather epic sounding NATO names for Russian aircraft.
By comparison, soviet submarine classes got boringly named after the
NATO alphabet (Echo, Delta, Victor) for most of the cold war.
With aircraft they’re somewhat limited by needing to have the reporting name begin with the first letter of the type. F for fighter, B for bomber and so one. With subs the reporting names are a bit more flexible, Delta, Mike, Oscar, Kilo ….
Whats the most realistic submarine movie, and why is it Down Periscope?
Strelas sound stupid on the sub. But if you're being chased by a couple helicopters. Couple guys, couple strelas, one escape pod. They could cover your retreat pretty well. Don't know if those escape pods open from the inside though.
A new brief on the Borei would be nice, a ship brief on the italian PPA/Paolo Thaon di Revel class would also be great
Excellent presentation, Brother.
The most emblematic sub of the cold war. I get confused. Was there not a smaller hunter-killer submarine with a tailplane mounted sonar bulge that was called the Akula in NATO parlance?
5 pressure hulls......... 2 main, and then the other three. You might only need one hit to stop it, but you'd need at least two hits to sink it.......
bigger than a regular typhoon.... what are these doors?
If the missile tubes are surrounded by water how do they do maintenance?
Typhoon crew has swimming pool in rest area. 😂😮
You didn't mention the pool?
Still two Typhoons at Archangel. Sent you a screen cap