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"HARDER, DARTER, TRIGGER, and TROUT ... always in and never out"
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WOW! Nice and compact.IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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Yes, compact.
These engines featured a very high power-density when compared to other contemporary diesel engines. Use of these vertical diesels greatly reduced submarine engine-room length compared to other type engines of the same horse-power.
Reliability and accessibility were the shortcomings of the design.
They leaked oil: the crank-shaft penetrates right down through the bottom of the oil sump, and if the sump seal leaked (as it often did), the black, hot goo would run down into the bottom mounted generator, shorting out the commutator elements.
Also -- making this machine an Engineer's nightmare when mounted in the tight confines of a submarines engine-room -- there were portions of the engine that simply were not accessible for maintenance or repair without a major strip-down. And these high-speed diesels beat themselves to death at a much quicker rate thant the more robustly built (and longer) Fairbanks&Morse and M.A.N submarine diesel engines typically used aboard WW-2 and post war American submarines.Who is John Galt?Comment
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A dock in Norway. Looks like two type 209s and one 212IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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Closeup Victor SailIT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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Lembit sailIT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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Soviet Graney class being moved aroundIT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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K-480 Akula named "Bars" during rollout. It has been being s****ped since 2010IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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Virginia class. Notice the handrail on the top of the sail.IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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Chicago Bulls motif on the nose of the USS ChicagoIT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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I-168 in 1945IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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Very good detail shot. Look how big the checker plate is!!!Comment
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Wow, your right they are big. I dont know what was available back in the 1940s but today we use diamond plate and the individual bumps are quite small compared to those big old things.IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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I-8 with her unusual gun arrangement , twin 6" guns forward..IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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Luv it, keep the IJN photos coming.:popComment
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