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Im just amazed at the M1. You would think that the weight of that big gun up top would immediately capsize that sub. Must have a deep keel with a lot of weight in it.IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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With the gun way up there it just seems like it would roll over any second. Especially in heavy seasIT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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Next time someone points out it takes 42 muscles to frown, point out it will only take 4 muscles to b1tch slap them if they tell you how mnay muscles you need to smile:popComment
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Ok a week or so ago I asked the question about favourite boats. Here is my top 5
1. Oscar II - The Russians build their nukes how I always imagined subs should be built Big, wide, with slick blended sails, with pod things on the rudders.
2. Akula - See above
3. Vanguard Class - everything about the waterline shape of this boat is stunning, The sail, the missile hump and of course those bow planes.
4. Typhoon class - Just so big also I was but a nipper when the film for Red October came out.
5. Resolution Class - When I first got into subs, I don't know....just something about them.
And that is it my Top 5, 1 x SSGN, 1 x SSN and 3 X SSBN If I had to pick my favourite SSK it would be the Oberon class with the Foxtrot 2nd. I also like to point out that due to his build of the 212, Manfred has really interested me with that class.
Lastly a special mention goes to this Picture,
This picture was in the 1st sub book I ever bought, Jonathan Crane's 'Submarine' seeing this .... I was hooked.
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The gun is awsome. 305mm Armstrong Whitworth Railway gun. Adapted for the RN on big dreadnauts and even the early IJN battleships. Japan had purchaced 80 of them in the 20s. The gun itself, weighed 50 tons. The projectile was a whopping 850 pounds. It took a few guys to muscle one out of the storage rack and into the breach loader, Im sure. That recoil must have kicked like an Alabama muel. Noise in the turret? Not after the first round, like sticking your ear in a garbage can with a lit M-80. Internal hemmoraging of organs and the ringing in the ears. And then the gun bunney opens the breach and the cordite comes out in the blast of fresh air rushing down the barrel. That has to peg the fun meter, for an afternoon in fair weather. The boat displaced 1500 tons on the surface, and the gun was 50tons and above the waterline. The barrel was 40 ft long but only could traverse 150 deg. So a 90 deg, broadside wasnt possible, otherwise It would tip the boat over. Just think, if you put some lead weight that was 30% of the model boat up in the tower and ran it Balls up in a turn you could tip the hull and loose the bubble out the bottom of the balast. "Now look what you done, Lucy"Last edited by Von Hilde; 02-01-2015, 08:08 AM.Comment
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My top five are:
1. Gato/Balao
2. Type VII
3. Typhoon (thanks to Hunt for Red October)
4. Nautilus - Disney
5. This is a tough slot to fill. There are several subs from WWII and couple of modern subs. Forcing myself to pick it is the Israeli Dolphin.If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.Comment
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I just saw this chart of the Russian navy's submarine fleet: http://www.image.kg/images/2014/09/11/Agop.jpg
Here is a bigger chart but it is Spanish: https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad...cb7d776914.jpg
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Notice all the sensors sticking out of this Golf.
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