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Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
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Any frequency band the reactors of nuclear submarines of the United States during the execution of the automatic bangchulneun What is it? How many submarines stationed near the North Korea? Where occupy any kind of attack submarines to defend carrier battle groups in the United States, sea station?


The easiest way how to find and destroy the attack submarine of the United States?
Submarine officer in the United States to discuss the concept of the international communist revolution or the Juche Idea?


Thank very much!

Edit: VV okay sorry :( please don't probate me

Baloogan fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Mar 10, 2013

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Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

ded posted:

^^ We were not allowed to have weights due to possible noise transients.


Conn, Sonar; we have intermittant bros getting swole at 257, 3 thousand yards

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
I guess I should have a real question. I'm sometimes doing bathymetric surveys of ports and rivers and such and because its so drat boring I generally fanatasize about subs hearing my little active sonar pinging away and doing TMA on me. I use 400-675 kHz with a 50-100 millisecond (microsecond?) pulse length, pencil beam around 100 pings per minute.

I'm sure you guys have sensitive enough equipment to hear me but do you guys track or care about me?

Baloogan fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Mar 10, 2013

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
What is the general procedure when you guys come across a new sonar transient? Please don't answer if its OPSEC or whatever.


I'm a bit of a sonar buff myself though I've been told in this thread that the sonars I use aren't much. :cry:

Is there a sonar officer? How many people work directly on sonar? Do you listen to the raw sonar in false color (I mean, translated the sonar sounds into sounds that humans can hear)?

How old would a sonar officer be? What is the average age on a sub?

A dream job for me would be to work on software relating to military sonars. I work on software for civilian (active) sonars.

Have any of you seen sonar from sewers? I have. I have literal poo poo filters, in hardware AND software.

Do you often use active sonar? I would think depth sounding and sea ice sounding would be useful.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
sorry I'm really bored

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
Thanks so much for satisfying my curiosity. So the sonar division's leader is more of a admin type guy rather than an old sonar officer who was listening to whale porno back in the 1970s. Tom clancy lied to me :(

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
Do you guys pressurize the air inside the sub?

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
Do british subs have booze available?

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

ded posted:

If a modern nuke sub flips over it is pretty much loving dead.

Why?

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
a sub forced to aileron roll for an entire mission would be the coolest thing in the world for anyone not in the sub

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
Do you guys have religious services on board a sub? Is there a chaplain?

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
Are you guys allowed to bring booze with you?

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
when doing marine surveying blazing logs means faking up data

edit ^^ drat fast postin

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
I guess I've also heard it in the context of "I was smoking so much weed that I didn't pay any attention to the sensors"

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
What is food like on a sub? Any pictures to share? Tea, coffee, cookies?

How often is the mess open? 24 hours a day?

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
It seems that food is not a reason to enlist in the silent service....


Do officers get their own mess and better food?

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
What the hell is wrong with the navy?



I've always been fascinated with subs and especially nuclear subs. I always had this conception you guys had good food, I mean you all live, poo poo and work right beside a nuclear reactor.

Why can't the navy select good chefs? They get people with good eyesight to be snipers and pilots. They select people with leadership qualities to be officers. why the hell can't they get someone who WANTS to be a chef to be a chef?

Rice in your pizza? Serving beans to the whole crew on a regular basis? Its like someone is TRYING to gently caress with y'all.

Also thanks so much for your replies, the little details of submarines help me understand the challenges you all face.

Are there kosher meals available?

quote:

I've had blueberries in meatloaf, almonds on pizza, and endless batches of cookies where the cooks swapped salt for sugar.


My god...

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
Do submariners at battlestations put on those KKK hoods like commonwealth surface ships do?



Also do any of y'all have any favorite submarine engagement scenario? I guess its all 100% secret though.


Are there kobiashi maru training scenarios? I mean training where there it is not possible to have a successful outcome from the training.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
Had to resurrect the thread; what you guys do is really interesting for me.

Are there ever cases where an attack submarine would be chillin out near a task force, covering it from enemy submarines?

Can you guys hear other boats passing overhead like in the WWII sub movies?

Most russian subs have a sam mast or some mechanism for launching surface to air missiles while at pericope depth or surfaced while american subs don't seem to have that capability. It seems it would be very easy to stow a couple of Stinger MANPADS somewhere on board. I guess our doctrine just assumes we would have control over the air.

Is there ever a chance to fish off the side? Or play practice golf while surfaced?

Does anyone abuse tanning cream while underway?

Does anyone smuggle weed aboard?

How many bathrooms are there for the entire sub? Does the captian get his own private shitter?

Is there a brig aboard ship?

Do you guys ever get to bust colombian drug smuggling subs and get a share of the powdery booty?

What sort of things would you imagine happening if an entire sub decided that, gently caress obama, we are going to Australia where they have a functioning government and austrialian pussy; espeically after busting the cocaine sub from the last question.

For training purposes do you do TMA on civilian ships?

I've read that our main ASuW force was our attack submarines (if a carrier wasn't anywhere nearby). It doesn't seem like you guys have much in the way of ASuW weaponry; Mk48s; 4 UGM-84 and thats... it; with the retirement of the TASM. Can the Block IV Tactilol Tomahawk target surface targets? Is that hella OPSEC?

Is there a schedule for when women are allowed on subs?

What do you guys think of that new U-boat with fuel cells? It can operate much like a nuke sub, staying submerged at crusing speed for 2+ months.

Are submarine missions assigned before you guys sortie from home ports; or do you guys just chill in interesting places waiting for someone to give you guys a call?

Do you guys ever get personal internet access while underway?





Sorry for the barrage of questions.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
That would be a fun sub to own. Just me, my submarine and 100kg of uncut cocaine.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
Are there common training scenarios, anything that is public? Do you guys study modern historical sub engagements?

Do you guys get chased by friendly surface ships who don't know you are there?

Are people allowed to have personal laptops on board?

ded posted:

Thats the stuff I can answer anyways.

Thanks so much man!

Baloogan fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Oct 19, 2013

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

ded posted:

How would a 'friendly' (there are no friendly surface contacts) ship ever see us if we didn't want them to?

Active sonar? SOSUS line (is it still in operation?), visually in littoral waters, lucky sonarbuoy (do surface groups drop this in the normal course of just chillin somewhere?), mechanical failure? mast sighting on radar?

edit: MAD detection. :v: I have no clue what fascinates me about this field...

Baloogan fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Oct 19, 2013

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
why can't the mk50 attack surface targets?

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

Snowdens Secret posted:

It is very difficult for 'friendly' surface ships to acquire and track a modern US submarine, even when surfaced, and even when the sub is actively trying to get them to (to avoid collisions or rendezvous for supplies.)

Regarding the mk 50, keep in mind the warhead on a mk 48 is bigger than the entire mk 50 torpedo.

I guess when they called it "Lightweight" they wern't joking around. Thanks!

Can other subs reliably follow and track modern US subs?

Edit: I could see this being really OPSEC and such...

Baloogan fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Oct 19, 2013

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
I've been drinking (heavily) but I just want to say as a very inrested civilian: wwhat you submariners do every day is so ... overwhelming for me; literally nuclear reactor powered silent machines shooting underneath the sea either tracking other hostiles to kill (attack subs) or being a literal mobile invisible missile silo (ballistic missile subs) making sure that if anyone sneak attacks us we gonna get vengance which prevents anyone frpom thinking they can take us out. Its like a science fiction book... its tough to fully complrehend.

thanks so much for awnsering my questions

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
At work we have fancy kimwipes for Lidar lenses and the vast majority of them are used to clean my glasses. They work really well at that!

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
I've always thought that SLBM were the smart way to go. Maybe have the air force focus on nukes delivered by stealth bombers and have the navy worry about ICBMs.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
Sorry, what I meant was 'all icbms should be slbms' because silent nuclear powered submersible mobile icbm silos are the coolest thing ever.

Its like something out of science-fiction.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
Actually that is a good point and a good reason to keep hella ICBMs on land. What if the chinese become really good at ASW? They can't ASW in North Dakota.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
I want all the classified stuff :(

I really need to get a clearance and work for the navy and be even gayer than grover.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
I just got off a month long probation and I'm not going to let this thread slip under the waves.

Is there any discussion among Sub officers about the faulty Mk14 torp during early WWII? I can't imagine how aggravating it must have been to score dud hits...

Since the USN doesn't operate diesel subs this question might not violate OPSEC: what are the strategies for operating the diesel engines? Do they sit still while charging? When in transit do diesels move at periscope/snorkel depth or surfaced?

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

compressioncut posted:

Yeah this is extremely classified info. You have to realize no one is going to give you any specific answers to any performance related questions or operational capabilities.

Surely you see the difference between asking about Mk14 torps in WWII and snorting strategies of modern diesel-electric boats? It comes off as kind of suspicious, even if it's just curiosity. Keep the thread alive but don't earn yourself a visit by very humorless guys in suits - I believe you're Canadian, bear in mind those particular humorless dudes are especially freaked out right now because of a couple of recent incidents.

so uh do Canadian subs have booze on board?

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Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
I stand accused of being a spy and a Canadian. :(

and I guess there is something hella secret about diesel subs.

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