Daily submarine picture

[redboat219]

What does a City/republic need a submarine for, let alone two of em?

Deterrence. Their main fear after independence was an invasion by Malaysia.

Singapore actually packs a lot of firepower, they have more tanks, fighters, (even if they have more located overseas than in sgp - cant train here) attack helicopters etc etc, than any of their neighbours . You know big car small!!!

Yeah but it's like fighting CQB armed with a .50 cal sniper rifle.

[Albion]

Deterrence. Their main fear after independence was an invasion by Malaysia.

All Malaysia needs to do is invade at lunchtime!

Sorry Ah, its makan ah, cannot fight Ah

[redboat219]

Ha ha ha.

Can't blame 'em. Looking forward for some BBQ Stingray myself.:biggrin:
Will be going there next weekend. Know where I can get the Bronco Type XXIII?

[Von Hilde]

Redboat, its more like the Big Daddy Roth cartoon of the guy in the full blown hot rod sitting on an tiney island with a single palm tree. CQB with a Barrett .50 is simple. You dont have to breach the building. Just knock it down piece by piece from a mile away while the spotter does all the work. Samo samo with the N Korean gazillion man army. Where they gonna go with it, without kicken up a dust trail? Last guy that thought he had a million man army that would do the trick, lost half of it on the road out of Kawait. It really aint about how much of what you have, its how you use it.

[Albion]

Redboat, its more like the Big Daddy Roth cartoon of the guy in the full blown hot rod sitting on an tiney island with a single palm tree. CQB with a Barrett .50 is simple. You dont have to breach the building. Just knock it down piece by piece from a mile away while the spotter does all the work. Samo samo with the N Korean gazillion man army. Where they gonna go with it, without kicken up a dust trail? Last guy that thought he had a million man army that would do the trick, lost half of it on the road out of Kawait. It really aint about how much of what you have, its how you use it.

Not the same

[greenman407]

Japanese sub moving out................or in.

[greenman407]

Gentlemen.............and I use the term............ loosely. Here is your daily picture. I hope that it sparks much controversy and discussion. Cheers
Just like the other mini subs out there, someone is going to want to make a model of this one. Its the RMS , remote mine hunting system. Underwater robot in other words. Probably like the unmanned Predator drones except they hunt mines.

[Scott T]

Looks like some sort of mast and antena folded on its back.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

looks to be an air-breathing semi-UUV parent craft with towed side-scan fish tucked in. Mine hunter? Whatever it is, its for survey of the mucky bottom. That pump-jet suggests a 10-15 knot capability.

[redboat219]

Anybody want to try their hand in building say a 1/12th scale model?
Subsurface runner no ballast tank. ADFs to control the foils
Bet it'll be a sight to see zipping along the pond with just the tip of the mast cutting thought the water at high speed.

[Von Hilde]

Not just for hunting mines either. Anti submarine missions and special ops surface surveilance and underwater mapping as well. The mast on the top of the RMV folds up to act like a periscope with sensors. The teather viehicle deploys with the underwater sensors for detection and survey of the bottom. The control system is in a portable container on the deck of the support ship, not unlike a Preditor van. On the warship depoyment the control is in the destroyers CIC and stowage is abeam the hanger bay. There are several other aplications that are classified, but one can only immagine what they are. I would think a 1/8 scale model with 2 cameras, underwater and surface.

[redboat219]

I'm a bit curious why the front end isn't hydrodynamically-shaped? Would it cause too much drag?

[redboat219]

Saw this article in February 1988 Popular Science magazine about a small robotic submarine equipped with a night vision camera for surveillance work.

http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=xQAAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=perry+robot+spy+submarine&source=bl&ots=ucNsLrAB7q&sig=lZUzQUwzVhzKbIQe7y2gX9bKsps&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xBuJUeOnAtTXiALzpoBg&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=perry%20robot%20spy%20submarine&f=true

[Von Hilde]

the AN/WLD-1 is still in development and is having some problems. I dont think that the craft has a hydro drag problem with the fore end due to the fact that its got the teather craft drag and the snorkle wake issues. Diesel powered, can be pre programmed and be an actual no hands on Drone, or remotly powered from land or service vessels and warships. I would suspect it could be deployed by aircraft as small as a C-130 or MH53 super stallion. Might not be air dropped directly, but airlifted to a launch site. They use a crane at the NSWC research center at Key West. They also have an old Higgens boat with a big davit to launch out the bow door pull them out with that they use sometimes. I have a friend that works there, Ill ask him whats up with the blunt bow. The specs are LOA 23' Hight, pilon to masthead 22' Draft 6'8" surfaced 14'10" submerged. Cummings 355hp diesel powered, no bateries to charge for efficency and endurance. almost 300 gal of jp-5 for fuel. The pod weighs 12,800lbs, the AN/AQS-20VDS towed body wieghs another thousand lbs. Be cool if I could get some scematic drawings of oneA tuff government job having to play with a 7.8mil$ RC submarine all day in the Florida Keys, but somebody has to do it

[greenman407]

Kool Dudes! Here we have the Bremerton. Nice, birdseye view