Active duty US submariner here. Served on the USS Montpelier (LA class fast attack submarine). Love the video. I personally think that looking back, submarines may seem claustrophobic at first but you have to just picture it as your home. If you just treat it like staying inside of your own house it becomes effortless.
@ there will always be the weaker few who don’t make it. But when I say “us submariners” I mean those of us who did. No disrespect to those who didn’t cut it, it’s just the nature of what the job is. Also, thank you for your service
Been through the Wyoming once when it needed to pull into Norfolk, and i cant explain how otherworldly it feeks to be standing in front of silos. To put a hand on the tube and realize "Wow, this is the most outrageously powerful weapon in the US, and I'm just a little enlisted sailor"
@@lukecoleman423 I WOULD HAVE IF I COULD HAVE. Recruiters sold me on Being a nuke MM instead of missile tech or STS (my first two picks). I ended up a CVN M Div mechanic.
@@freelancespartan Sounds quite similar to what my recruiter told me, I however did not have the good sense to not sign the sub-vol during enlistment and ended up a ETN on a SSBN.
@@delmeez SSBN-726 Blue from Groton to patrol 5, SSBN-732 Gold patrol 3 to patrol 7, and four patrols on SSBN 731 Blue until EAOS. Been there, done that, drank simple green because #StrategicDetergentPatrolForever.
Your comments on the difficulty of being on a submarine for 6 months or more are valid in that it's a difficult life. But I was a Marine platoon commander in Vietnam commanding 34 Marines which was way understrength for a year in combat. Submarines are alleged to have the best food in the Navy because of their 6 months under water and cramped living spaces and very long hours. But I spent a year in Vietnam leading a platoon of 18-19 year old Marines in coastal pines, rice paddies, mountains, jungles, and elephant grass/dense terrain. It was a hard year. I lost too many KIA and WIA. Field rations (C-Rations) were horrible, one Ration had to last 2-3 days because ammo was far more important than food, and we filled canteens with whatever water might be available (no bottled water in those days). Our uniforms rotted off of us. No one wore skivvies (aka underwear) or socks as they were just more clothes that had to be dried every day. Resupply wasn't dependable due to weather, terrain, or enemy threats. Don't get me wrong. I would rather be a platoon commander in combat than a crew member on a submarine. At least at times I could enjoy the blue sky, fresh air, and the fact that I had some control over if we lived or died. What I meant is that when the submarine is mortally damaged, the entire crew goes down. When I was in intense firefights, I had casualties but my entire platoon didn't die. Different strokes for different folks. I wouldn't want to be a tanker because a moving foxhole attacks the eye of the enemy. I wouldn't want to be a fighter pilot because I have poor eyesight and for some perverse reason I prefer to be in close contact with the enemy where I can hold them by the belt and kill they with whatever I might happen to have. In close ground combat, you never run out of ways to kill someone. In the air you run out of missiles and bullets, and then you have to retreat. Anyway, it takes a team of Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Coast Guard and Space Force to win. God bless them all.
Subs are really cozy. I've been inside 2-3, but i really hate water so i wouldn't want to work inside one. A sub with ICBM's is basically like a small death star
The Sturgeon-class USS Narwhal, SSN-671, was in my squadron, SUBRON 4, in Charleston, SC. The prototype reactor had a natural circulation S5G reactor plant, therefore, not running the reactor cooling pumps in the lower power ranges, made the boat much quieter than running the pumps at higher speeds. This ingenious design was installed and improved in many follow-on classes. OUTSTANDING ENGINEERING!
I did my prototype training at the S5G prototype, when I got to the USS Georgia, I knew more about natural circulation theory than the guys who qualified me.
Destin did a multiple video deep dive into a modern US submarine on his channel (Smarter everyday) Max speed is classified but you will likely never see one reach it due to water cavitation basically broadcasting your location to everyone. On his videos he also gets a glimpse at the life in the sub and how stuff works on unclassified systems.
Bull shite. Go deep or stay home. I did four straight days at a flank bell (max speed) after sinking a tub off the coast of Midway, in excess of two football fields deep. Enough water pressure will prevent cavitation. There's a video of the incident here on TH-cam, if you want to see bad Betacam footage from 1986. "There goes the mail".
I was on a 38ft sailboat sailing out of the Chesapeake Bay past Norfolk when a US sub surfaced and started to broadcast on the VHF radio. Do not cross our bow! Do not come within 300 yards of us! You could hear the seriousness in the voice and you wouldn’t even think about testing the commands. We gave them a wide berth.
I saw a documentary once where a naval submariner was asked how hard it was to track one of these things. His answer was "Easy, find the quite spot in the ocean and follow it."
The Ohio class ballistic submarine was designed to carry 24 Trident missiles, the original order was for 24 subs in this class. A total of 18 were built and the remaining 6 were cancelled. Currently 4 Ohio's have been converted into SSGN (guided missile) submarines, the remaining 14 are still nuclear capable and carry 24 Trident II D5 missiles each carrying 12 MIRV's. The really scary thing about the submarine fleets is that the military does not know exactly where they are once they submerge, communication is one way, meaning that they receive messages and send out nothing so they do not betray their location. This is something I bring up constantly when folks talk about China going to war with us, they have no clue where these subs are at plus they have no counter for them. They do not have ballistic submarines as quiet as the Ohio, it can cruise at 20 knots and not be heard that is some scary technology. The Russians were and still are nervous about them because they know they could be anywhere off their coast and launch their weapons, upon order of the President, and eliminate their Command and Control personnel. Just think 14 missile subs, with 24 missiles containing 12 MIRV's the utter destruction they could bring upon a country and the world.
While they may not know our exact location, they do assign us to a specific "state" in the ocean as our patrol area. We'll hang out in that "state" and go 2kts to nowhere.
@@h4l0g3n That may be the case, but as I stated they assign a 'state' and you move around silently, awaiting orders to strike. You run your drills and are always on a war footing of sorts.
@@h4l0g3n You can't even maintain steerage at 2 knots. 5-7 knots was the order of the day, making slow holes in the ocean, and cleaning like ORSE was just around the corner..
Some of these (the cruise missile boats) replaced part of the missile tubes with a facilities for a good number of SEALs and airlock facilities. Near the end of the video, at about 15:10, the sub on the surface has a couple of large sausage-shaped structures on the top of the hull. Those certainly looks like SEAL mini-subs.
If you wanna talk about claustrophobic, go on a tour of an old diesel sub from the early days. Those are super small. I toured the U.S.S. Batfish. Soo cramped inside.
My oldest brother was in the HardHead in the mid 1960s. This submarine served in WW2. There was a height restriction on those submarines. I think it was 5’9”. My brother in law served on boomers as an STC. After my brother’s shore duty he was on the 650. Pargo as an STC. I got a chance to go through this submarine in Rota Spain when I met up with him there. I was in a P-3 squadron. I worked at EB when the first sections of the Ohio came together in 1976.
How deep they can go is also classified. When I was on my sub back in the mid 2000's. Whenever we would have guests or tourists come on board for tours, we had covers that would go over all the gauges at the helm station along with other stations so they couldn't see how deep the gauges went. Guests are also not allowed in the radio room or the engine room unless they are specifically allowed to do so.
@@johnpoteat9774 I signed a contract to not disclose that kind of information for the next 50 years. So, get back with me in 2055 and I can legally tell you then.
When I was a kid my brother was stationed at Norfolk and he took me out to a pier to see a few subs and at 8 or 9 they didn’t look like much as mostly all you see is the conning tower, in comparison to the carriers and destroyers, looking back it’s just more of how stealthily they hide their true capabilities!
I know this video is 9 months old, but if you're still looking for a missile to do a video on/haven't done this missile yet, you might want to check out the R9X "Ninja Missile." It's a "secret" variant of the AGM-114 Hellfire, but instead of having explosives, it carries 6 blades that shoot out just before impact for targeted assassinations.
These boats are surprisingly cozy. The racks are definitely more roomy than attack boats and even destroyers ive been on. I was able to bolt a 24” TV in mine 😂
Thank you for your service! Guess it does make sense to have a more roomy feel as you are underwater in a WMD Tin can :P so no way to "get some fresh air"
A friend of mine( Navy)) said Britain has very good submarines that with the US could take the whole world by surprise. I'm not military but many in my family that served in several Wars n recently found a relative that died on the Arizona n have visited Pearl Harbor many times not knowing this. So since knowing this in 2016 I have gone to Hawaii 9 times( I live in Alaska so not too far to fly )I love all your military info n now have told my 2 cousins( Army n Air Force served in Vietnam) to see your videos. They have had a difficult time since that war but now they want to see what the US has to fight the wars. Keep up the good work ❤
ROFL on any US Navy ship there are TV's that display weather, ship's speed, etc. and they just redact/black out the speed after it hits a certian point, because no one can know...
3:21 Destroy a country?! Each individual submarine is easily capable of vaporizing dozens of countries and/or entire continents. Each sub carries 20-24 launch tubes and each missile carries between 8 - *12 (*12 on the latest Trident II) individually targeted nuclear warheads. Each of the (240 to 288) individually targeted warheads is about 5 to10x more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The subs that carry Tomahawk Cruise Missile carry 7 missiles per tube for a total of 154. Tomahawks are capable of carrying either conventional or (5 or 150 kilotons) nuclear warheads. A single Ohio Class Submarine can devastate Russia, China, India or all three in a single blow. According to historical (published) reports, US nuclear subs have been capable of underwater speeds between 33 to 35 knots, but a friend of mine who was a submariner (in the early 80s), while not divulging the top speed of the sub he was assigned to, told me they can go a lot faster than that.😯
Brother in law was a nuc on them. He loved it, a lot more then shore duty. I won't recommend videos but I'd look into the Poseidon torpedo (russia's newest doomsday toy), the Akula submarine (russian), the Typhoon submarine (russia's 3rd wave ballistic nuke), the Virginia class, the Seawolf class(my personal favorite), and the Borei class. I don't know enough about UK and French subs to suggest anything. There are a lot of diesel electrics used by the european nations. In some ways the diesel electric subs are more dangerous - they're louder when they use the diesel to run the generators but they are quieter then a nuclear sub when on battery power. The Kilo class is the most common russian diesel electric boat. The Kilo is still being built - they've been in production since the 70s.
I spent four years building bows and superstructures for Ohio class subs, and sterns for Los Angeles class subs. Plus some internal structure for the first two Seawolf boats. I recall that HY80 and above steels had pretty narrow welding requirements.
I don't know exactly how it is calculated when they talk about each missle and how many mega tones each warhead carries compared to the ones dropped in WWII each of these missiles are like 10 times or more powerful than those that really makes you think about how much power is hidden under the sea.
"Ensuring that any nuclear attack on the United States will not go unpunished" is really the key to these subs. It doesn't matter how fast or how hard somebody can theoretically hit us; these are the guaranteed nuclear retaliatory strike waiting in their future. It is what keeps the MAD principle in place and makes the use of a nuclear weapon less likely in the first place. Not knowing for sure how many there are, how many are on patrol, how fast they can travel, all just makes it even more impossible to ever think you could get away without retaliation.
Agree...even if the ship is under refit during the 25 days, and tied up to the dock, they can be quickly be sent out... They carry enough supplies for 90 day's , but extended to 120 if needed (just more PB&J's)
Top speed depends on being able to stay stealthy, the faster you want to go the deeper you need to dive to keep from cavitation. I may be wrong but that is what I've gathered from different sources.
Top speed and top speed while undetected are two different requirements. Sounds like a overly technical difference, but the Cold War was a hell of an era.
As a general rule of thumb, if the military is TELLING you a spec, you can pretty much guarantee the reality is well beyond that. It makes no strategic sense to reveal your true capabilities. Which is why you'll mostly see "in excess of" type statements.
I served on Fast Attack subs in the mid 1960's. As to "size" the human animal is adaptive. The longer you are aboard or in a smaller space the more "normal" it feels. Your vision gets use to seeing in shorter ranges. Those "little" spaces get larger. After having been aboard for several years I took leave and went home for 2 weeks. On coming back I was shocked as to the small size but I readapted quickly and things returned to "normal". I loved being in submarines and wouldn't trade the experience for anything. I'd about give anything to go back to sea for a few days and make some dives and surfaces before I die. My first and last dives and surfaces were on WW II vintage subs. The last in 1969. The bulk of my time was on a Nuc Fast Attack.
Everybody I knew used to talk about how much room an Ohio-class had ("floating hotel"), but it was still a sewer pipe, but with much more surface area to clean oil mist off of.
I grew up in the 80/90s with those cool movies like crimson tide and hunt for red October. I wonder how many kids wanted to be submariners because of that haha
I read a book in 1986 "to kill the potempkin" Went submarines and sonar tech because of that book and probably a little Hunt for Red October too. Go Jonesy!
@OriginalHuman. Mate, I just turned 41 and I love your videos because of the comedy you give with your reactions to it all. You are my dose of comedy mate 😁
Well..... If you don´t know, then you don´t know........ Did you know the "subs" make, breathable air, drinking water, and heated water at the same time....... Only thing missing is D and E vitamins.....
With regard to the speed of a US submarine, it depends on where it is operating. In very deep waters, it is alleged that it can exceed 20 knots. But since an aircraft carrier can maintain 30 knots, I have to assume that the submarines protecting a carrier strike group at 30 plus knots can keep up with it.. But if one or more submarines are far in front of the carrier strike group then perhaps they don't need to match the carrier's speed. In other words, a submerged submarine can only communicate with the rest of the world, and vice versa via very low frequency (VLF) radio waves. There are only a few places in the world that can communicate via VLF. Also another factor is how much a submarine can interface with other tactical data collectors while submerged. That is either difficult or impossible because such communications capabilities would be classified if it were possible.
The Columbia class of ballistic missile submarines are the replacements for the Ohio class submarines. The first of the Columbia class began construction in 2020; it is expected to enter service by 2031. The Dreadnought class ballistic missile submarine is the Columbia class' UK counterpart. The Dreadnought class is the replacement for the Vanguard class.
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is in Kittery Maine. They have Subs there. My work took me there and Brunswick Naval Air Station and A small base in Cutler also in Maine. All of them beautiful places.
If that sub launches its missiles, the world doesn't change, the world ends. That launch won't go unanswered, which will then require further launches from us, which will then be answered with more missiles from the enemy.
Do a reaction on the bunker buster. The bomb that was made out of a howitzer barrel in a month or something like that.. I'm not exactly sure what the name is but it was during the war with iraq
The nuclear fuel lasts 25 yrs in the Ohio class, 40 years for the up coming Columbia class. I think the Sea Wolfe attack subs were probably the most dangerous though...
The thing is… this vid only tells you the ‘unclassified’ statistics of the boat… the ‘classified’ parts are much much more mental! I was usaf… to get to my unit, you had to have a TSSCI clearance to just enter the building. What PR said we did vs what we could actually do we’re night and day descriptions.
When it comes to classifying depth, speed, and other specifications... and why submarines are the 'silent service'... look up Kentucky Congressman Andrew J. May. At the beginning of the war, the Japanese didn't know how deep American subs could go, so they were setting their depth charges too shallow. After visiting the Pacific, the Congressman decided to set his constituent's minds at ease, and told them this.. in the newspaper. The Japanese then started setting their fuses deeper.
firstly, great video. Since you have learned a lot about fighter jets and their capabilities. I think you would like hype ops (hypothetical operation) where they make realistic simulated battles with missiles and air defense missiles. Super informative.
9:12 these boats are actually MASSIVE theyre like 450 feet long or something. They dont fit in the same dry docks as fast attack subs like the LA class. Edit: 12:10 these ballistic subs (nicknamed, aptly, boomers) are basically the world superpower equivalent of concealed carry. Its practiced in hopes of never being needed. And yes the world would be forever changed if even a single missile was launched, much in the same way your life would be changed in a defensive shooting and for the person who made it necessary. Im liking this analogy a bit too much at this point
When you factor in all the Air Craft Carriers, Submarines, F22’s, and F35’s etc… All other apparatus is hate to be on the receiving end of the US Navy 🤨
It's a brilliant channel this, the lads enthusiasm shows bounds. Superb 👍 (in a good way, but you don't strike me as an ex-marine?) I know you were of course, but I think it lends appeal to the channel along with what sometimes can be contentious subjects. Anyway, massive compliment, I have no affiliation to this channel whatsosever, but I would say 'smash a like' and 'subscribe' guys & girls. It's really good & keep it up buddy. 👌
Tomahawk cruise missiles already have been used quite a bit. They were used extensively in the first gulf war - Desert Storm - 288 Tomahawks were launched at the start of the air war. 12 from subs, the rest from surface ships. They have also been used in other conflicts such as Serbia, Afghanistan, Libya, and the later gulf conflicts and terrorist targets.
FYI, the Royal Navy has several submarines that carry Trident Missiles. The UK builds its own sub and warheads, but they buy the Trident missiles from the US. Trident missiles are loaded on subs and serviced at the Strategic Weapons Facility Atlantic, located at Kings Bay, Georgia. There was a somewhat amusing incident a few years back. An RN sub [I won't identify it, but it was in a quite few news reports] was in Kings Bay to have its missiles serviced. The Crew broke quarantine and went foraging for booze and strips clubs. Some of them were up to 200 miles away in Florida. Unfortunately, they also managed to find COVID.
US Military technology will evolve to make a submarine carrier where unmanned drones will be launched from underneath the ocean and piloted by pilots on the submarine, kind of like using flight simulators but for real. Drones will also be used to deliver surprise undetected air strikes that no one will see coming until it's too late. It's obvious that Drones are the future of weaponry and submarines will be adapted to carry drones. Drones weapons systems will make the ballistic missles obsolete in the next 2 to 3 decades as technology is vastly being pushed in this realm.
Not directly on the missiles, but their payloads, "Trinity and Beyond", goes over the testing and history of the devices those Trident II D-5 missiles are delivering
The channel BalticaBeer has uploaded a very comprehensive documentary on the AIM-9 Sidewinder family of American heat-seeking missiles, it is an hour long however. The channel Smarter Every Day has a shorter video talking about how the sidewinder works more generally.
An Ohio class can do 30+ knots. - It wouldn't want to because it makes a bunch of noise going that fast. You wouldn't even believe me if I told you how fast our Aircraft Carriers can go.
You need to go to the Air Force Air Museum outside the gate of Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Not only famous aircraft but also missiles to include an Air Force Missile Silo that has been in the Central U.S. web.
9:10 it sctually doesn't. Majority of this video you're only seeing the submarine from above the surface. If you could see the rest of it, it is much bigger than you're probably thinking. Plus there actually is space between and along those missile silos.
My name is inside the prop shaft coupling on one of these boats. For a few more years anyways. Edit: 4:35 if HLC ever does a video on(just) patriot vs Aegis you should give it a go. I know he's talked about it but that might have been a podcast (unsub) or part of a larger video
How do they surface so fast and not have the effects of a diver doing the same? Even if was a giant decompression chamber, how do they do so fast let me know please
Someone should tell that guy in the corner that the crew bunks are in between the missile silos. You sleep between two Trident missiles.
Also that the issued mattresses are the same is prison mattresses 😂
cozy
How comforting, yet not at all comforting
@@christopherwelsh7008probably the safest place on earth, actually.
@@christopherwelsh7008 lmao I laughed but that was my thought immediately by " oh wait "
As an American, I would be terrified if I knew that they were NOT lurking under the sea.
Active duty US submariner here. Served on the USS Montpelier (LA class fast attack submarine). Love the video. I personally think that looking back, submarines may seem claustrophobic at first but you have to just picture it as your home. If you just treat it like staying inside of your own house it becomes effortless.
They did screen us for claustrophobia, as I recall, but a few guys did slip through who didn't last long.
@ there will always be the weaker few who don’t make it. But when I say “us submariners” I mean those of us who did. No disrespect to those who didn’t cut it, it’s just the nature of what the job is. Also, thank you for your service
Smarter Everyday channel still has the best most comprehensive series onboard a USN submarine beneath the ice in the Arctic circle
Been through the Wyoming once when it needed to pull into Norfolk, and i cant explain how otherworldly it feeks to be standing in front of silos. To put a hand on the tube and realize "Wow, this is the most outrageously powerful weapon in the US, and I'm just a little enlisted sailor"
Try being inside the missiles
@@lukecoleman423 I WOULD HAVE IF I COULD HAVE. Recruiters sold me on Being a nuke MM instead of missile tech or STS (my first two picks). I ended up a CVN M Div mechanic.
@@freelancespartan Sounds quite similar to what my recruiter told me, I however did not have the good sense to not sign the sub-vol during enlistment and ended up a ETN on a SSBN.
Did 12 Strategic Deterrent Patrols on the USS Michigan (SSBN 727 Gold crew) between 1990 and 2001. There was a shore tour between sea tours at SWFPAC.
SSGN now :p (wva ssbn 736 Gold 2017-2022)
@@delmeez SSBN-726 Blue from Groton to patrol 5, SSBN-732 Gold patrol 3 to patrol 7, and four patrols on SSBN 731 Blue until EAOS. Been there, done that, drank simple green because #StrategicDetergentPatrolForever.
The B-52 laughs in long service life
The Buff is forever.
Some have been flown by 3 generations of pilots.
Your comments on the difficulty of being on a submarine for 6 months or more are valid in that it's a difficult life. But I was a Marine platoon commander in Vietnam commanding 34 Marines which was way understrength for a year in combat.
Submarines are alleged to have the best food in the Navy because of their 6 months under water and cramped living spaces and very long hours.
But I spent a year in Vietnam leading a platoon of 18-19 year old Marines in coastal pines, rice paddies, mountains, jungles, and elephant grass/dense terrain. It was a hard year. I lost too many KIA and WIA. Field rations (C-Rations) were horrible, one Ration had to last 2-3 days because ammo was far more important than food, and we filled canteens with whatever water might be available (no bottled water in those days). Our uniforms rotted off of us. No one wore skivvies (aka underwear) or socks as they were just more clothes that had to be dried every day. Resupply wasn't dependable due to weather, terrain, or enemy threats.
Don't get me wrong. I would rather be a platoon commander in combat than a crew member on a submarine. At least at times I could enjoy the blue sky, fresh air, and the fact that I had some control over if we lived or died. What I meant is that when the submarine is mortally damaged, the entire crew goes down. When I was in intense firefights, I had casualties but my entire platoon didn't die.
Different strokes for different folks. I wouldn't want to be a tanker because a moving foxhole attacks the eye of the enemy. I wouldn't want to be a fighter pilot because I have poor eyesight and for some perverse reason I prefer to be in close contact with the enemy where I can hold them by the belt and kill they with whatever I might happen to have. In close ground combat, you never run out of ways to kill someone. In the air you run out of missiles and bullets, and then you have to retreat.
Anyway, it takes a team of Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Coast Guard and Space Force to win. God bless them all.
Subs are really cozy. I've been inside 2-3, but i really hate water so i wouldn't want to work inside one. A sub with ICBM's is basically like a small death star
Subs are so cramped. If you think they're cozy brother you were meant to be a sailor. Enlist!
@@TheMeanmarine13 Cramped and yet still so much roomier than the WW2 equivalents. Can you even imagine living in those things?
@@TheMeanmarine13 lol
@@TheMeanmarine13 i guess i'm going to the deep then, see you in 3 months!
Yah it may seem big if you visit for a day . But when you're stuck in one on deployment that thing becomes really small
The Sturgeon-class USS Narwhal, SSN-671, was in my squadron, SUBRON 4, in Charleston, SC.
The prototype reactor had a natural circulation S5G reactor plant, therefore, not running the reactor cooling pumps in the lower power ranges, made the boat much quieter than running the pumps at higher speeds. This ingenious design was installed and improved in many follow-on classes. OUTSTANDING ENGINEERING!
I did my prototype training at the S5G prototype, when I got to the USS Georgia, I knew more about natural circulation theory than the guys who qualified me.
Destin did a multiple video deep dive into a modern US submarine on his channel (Smarter everyday) Max speed is classified but you will likely never see one reach it due to water cavitation basically broadcasting your location to everyone. On his videos he also gets a glimpse at the life in the sub and how stuff works on unclassified systems.
Bull shite. Go deep or stay home. I did four straight days at a flank bell (max speed) after sinking a tub off the coast of Midway, in excess of two football fields deep. Enough water pressure will prevent cavitation. There's a video of the incident here on TH-cam, if you want to see bad Betacam footage from 1986. "There goes the mail".
I was on a 38ft sailboat sailing out of the Chesapeake Bay past Norfolk when a US sub surfaced and started to broadcast on the VHF radio. Do not cross our bow! Do not come within 300 yards of us! You could hear the seriousness in the voice and you wouldn’t even think about testing the commands. We gave them a wide berth.
I saw a documentary once where a naval submariner was asked how hard it was to track one of these things. His answer was "Easy, find the quite spot in the ocean and follow it."
The Ohio class ballistic submarine was designed to carry 24 Trident missiles, the original order was for 24 subs in this class. A total of 18 were built and the remaining 6 were cancelled. Currently 4 Ohio's have been converted into SSGN (guided missile) submarines, the remaining 14 are still nuclear capable and carry 24 Trident II D5 missiles each carrying 12 MIRV's. The really scary thing about the submarine fleets is that the military does not know exactly where they are once they submerge, communication is one way, meaning that they receive messages and send out nothing so they do not betray their location.
This is something I bring up constantly when folks talk about China going to war with us, they have no clue where these subs are at plus they have no counter for them. They do not have ballistic submarines as quiet as the Ohio, it can cruise at 20 knots and not be heard that is some scary technology. The Russians were and still are nervous about them because they know they could be anywhere off their coast and launch their weapons, upon order of the President, and eliminate their Command and Control personnel.
Just think 14 missile subs, with 24 missiles containing 12 MIRV's the utter destruction they could bring upon a country and the world.
Id bet my paycheck one is always off the coast of russia and another in the south china sea. 100% of the time, 24/7, 365.
@@John_Redcorn_ I am sure that is the case. Hell they may even be submerged in one of the Great Lakes for crying out loud.
While they may not know our exact location, they do assign us to a specific "state" in the ocean as our patrol area. We'll hang out in that "state" and go 2kts to nowhere.
@@h4l0g3n That may be the case, but as I stated they assign a 'state' and you move around silently, awaiting orders to strike. You run your drills and are always on a war footing of sorts.
@@h4l0g3n You can't even maintain steerage at 2 knots. 5-7 knots was the order of the day, making slow holes in the ocean, and cleaning like ORSE was just around the corner..
Some of these (the cruise missile boats) replaced part of the missile tubes with a facilities for a good number of SEALs and airlock facilities. Near the end of the video, at about 15:10, the sub on the surface has a couple of large sausage-shaped structures on the top of the hull. Those certainly looks like SEAL mini-subs.
If you wanna talk about claustrophobic, go on a tour of an old diesel sub from the early days. Those are super small. I toured the U.S.S. Batfish. Soo cramped inside.
My oldest brother was in the HardHead in the mid 1960s. This submarine served in WW2. There was a height restriction on those submarines. I think it was 5’9”. My brother in law served on boomers as an STC. After my brother’s shore duty he was on the 650. Pargo as an STC. I got a chance to go through this submarine in Rota Spain when I met up with him there. I was in a P-3 squadron. I worked at EB when the first sections of the Ohio came together in 1976.
How deep they can go is also classified. When I was on my sub back in the mid 2000's. Whenever we would have guests or tourists come on board for tours, we had covers that would go over all the gauges at the helm station along with other stations so they couldn't see how deep the gauges went. Guests are also not allowed in the radio room or the engine room unless they are specifically allowed to do so.
So, how deep can they go?
@@johnpoteat9774 I signed a contract to not disclose that kind of information for the next 50 years. So, get back with me in 2055 and I can legally tell you then.
@@RogunK All good dude, it was just a joke.
I'd hate to be out fishing one day and tie on to one of these things. I bet they put up a pretty good fight.
brings a new meaning to "cloak & dagger".
When I was a kid my brother was stationed at Norfolk and he took me out to a pier to see a few subs and at 8 or 9 they didn’t look like much as mostly all you see is the conning tower, in comparison to the carriers and destroyers, looking back it’s just more of how stealthily they hide their true capabilities!
I know this video is 9 months old, but if you're still looking for a missile to do a video on/haven't done this missile yet, you might want to check out the R9X "Ninja Missile." It's a "secret" variant of the AGM-114 Hellfire, but instead of having explosives, it carries 6 blades that shoot out just before impact for targeted assassinations.
We're gonna have a PAHTY guys! :P
Lol, love the accent and your work bro, keep it up!
The really scary part is the fact that it's replacement already exists and there is literally no info you can get on it.
These boats are surprisingly cozy. The racks are definitely more roomy than attack boats and even destroyers ive been on. I was able to bolt a 24” TV in mine 😂
Thank you for your service! Guess it does make sense to have a more roomy feel as you are underwater in a WMD Tin can :P so no way to "get some fresh air"
They call the 4 cruise missile armed variants the 4 horsemen of the tomahawkalypse.
I remember hearing the top three most lethal weapons are (1) The US Military, (2) The Soviet Military, and (3) One Trident Sub.
I suspect many people would question your number 2 in light of Ukraine.
What I know about the Ohio class submarine, I can’t tell you. I was Air Crew, an AW acoustic operator. Tracking subs by sound is fun.
A friend of mine( Navy)) said Britain has very good submarines that with the US could take the whole world by surprise. I'm not military but many in my family that served in several Wars n recently found a relative that died on the Arizona n have visited Pearl Harbor many times not knowing this. So since knowing this in 2016 I have gone to Hawaii 9 times( I live in Alaska so not too far to fly )I love all your military info n now have told my 2 cousins( Army n Air Force served in Vietnam) to see your videos. They have had a difficult time since that war but now they want to see what the US has to fight the wars. Keep up the good work ❤
ROFL on any US Navy ship there are TV's that display weather, ship's speed, etc. and they just redact/black out the speed after it hits a certian point, because no one can know...
3:21 Destroy a country?! Each individual submarine is easily capable of vaporizing dozens of countries and/or entire continents. Each sub carries 20-24 launch tubes and each missile carries between 8 - *12 (*12 on the latest Trident II) individually targeted nuclear warheads. Each of the (240 to 288) individually targeted warheads is about 5 to10x more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The subs that carry Tomahawk Cruise Missile carry 7 missiles per tube for a total of 154. Tomahawks are capable of carrying either conventional or (5 or 150 kilotons) nuclear warheads. A single Ohio Class Submarine can devastate Russia, China, India or all three in a single blow.
According to historical (published) reports, US nuclear subs have been capable of underwater speeds between 33 to 35 knots, but a friend of mine who was a submariner (in the early 80s), while not divulging the top speed of the sub he was assigned to, told me they can go a lot faster than that.😯
What my grandpa was a seal to being apart of the Navy Department he use to be a drill instructor back in the days
I served aboard a Lafayette class fleet ballistic missile submarine during the cold war. The USS John Adams SSBN 620. One of the "41 for freedom".
Brother in law was a nuc on them. He loved it, a lot more then shore duty. I won't recommend videos but I'd look into the Poseidon torpedo (russia's newest doomsday toy), the Akula submarine (russian), the Typhoon submarine (russia's 3rd wave ballistic nuke), the Virginia class, the Seawolf class(my personal favorite), and the Borei class. I don't know enough about UK and French subs to suggest anything.
There are a lot of diesel electrics used by the european nations. In some ways the diesel electric subs are more dangerous - they're louder when they use the diesel to run the generators but they are quieter then a nuclear sub when on battery power. The Kilo class is the most common russian diesel electric boat. The Kilo is still being built - they've been in production since the 70s.
i saw the first one launch,my dad worked there at electric boat.he hated working on the smaller attack subs after all the ohio class were built
I worked at EB in ‘76 between when I got out of the Navy and went back to school at Thames Valley.
Submarine's have the Best food in the Military... hands down.
Unless you go to the flight kitchen in the AF, my late mother told me that it was better than regular mess food.
I spent four years building bows and superstructures for Ohio class subs, and sterns for Los Angeles class subs. Plus some internal structure for the first two Seawolf boats. I recall that HY80 and above steels had pretty narrow welding requirements.
I don't know exactly how it is calculated when they talk about each missle and how many mega tones each warhead carries compared to the ones dropped in WWII each of these missiles are like 10 times or more powerful than those that really makes you think about how much power is hidden under the sea.
"Ensuring that any nuclear attack on the United States will not go unpunished" is really the key to these subs. It doesn't matter how fast or how hard somebody can theoretically hit us; these are the guaranteed nuclear retaliatory strike waiting in their future. It is what keeps the MAD principle in place and makes the use of a nuclear weapon less likely in the first place.
Not knowing for sure how many there are, how many are on patrol, how fast they can travel, all just makes it even more impossible to ever think you could get away without retaliation.
Agree...even if the ship is under refit during the 25 days, and tied up to the dock, they can be quickly be sent out... They carry enough supplies for 90 day's , but extended to 120 if needed (just more PB&J's)
We know how fast they can go, but we still aren't supposed to tell others.
Top speed depends on being able to stay stealthy, the faster you want to go the deeper you need to dive to keep from cavitation. I may be wrong but that is what I've gathered from different sources.
Top speed and top speed while undetected are two different requirements. Sounds like a overly technical difference, but the Cold War was a hell of an era.
So curious where you went to school in Maine! Born and raised here, small world.
As a general rule of thumb, if the military is TELLING you a spec, you can pretty much guarantee the reality is well beyond that. It makes no strategic sense to reveal your true capabilities. Which is why you'll mostly see "in excess of" type statements.
I served on Fast Attack subs in the mid 1960's. As to "size" the human animal is adaptive. The longer you are aboard or in a smaller space the more "normal" it feels. Your vision gets use to seeing in shorter ranges. Those "little" spaces get larger. After having been aboard for several years I took leave and went home for 2 weeks. On coming back I was shocked as to the small size but I readapted quickly and things returned to "normal". I loved being in submarines and wouldn't trade the experience for anything. I'd about give anything to go back to sea for a few days and make some dives and surfaces before I die. My first and last dives and surfaces were on WW II vintage subs. The last in 1969. The bulk of my time was on a Nuc Fast Attack.
Everybody I knew used to talk about how much room an Ohio-class had ("floating hotel"), but it was still a sewer pipe, but with much more surface area to clean oil mist off of.
YES.. WE HAVE THE BEST MILLITARY IN THE WORLD AND WILL PROVE IT.
AND OUR TANK'S ARE JUST AS GREAT.
I WAS A GUNNER ON THE A1.
LOVED IT..❤
"Barely touched the surface...." 😂
I enjoy your channel a lot !!
The 4 converted to Cruise misslie ships have already been used. Quite a few times. We hit Syria a cpl years ago when one launched like 80 of them.
I grew up in the 80/90s with those cool movies like crimson tide and hunt for red October. I wonder how many kids wanted to be submariners because of that haha
I read a book in 1986 "to kill the potempkin" Went submarines and sonar tech because of that book and probably a little Hunt for Red October too. Go Jonesy!
@OriginalHuman. Mate, I just turned 41 and I love your videos because of the comedy you give with your reactions to it all. You are my dose of comedy mate 😁
Well..... If you don´t know, then you don´t know........ Did you know the "subs" make, breathable air, drinking water, and heated water at the same time....... Only thing missing is D and E vitamins.....
Honestly it's more accurate to say It's the deadliest sub we admitted to building. DO not want to know what we keep secret.
Learning more about missiles would be cool
You should look at the ATACMs missle.
With regard to the speed of a US submarine, it depends on where it is operating. In very deep waters, it is alleged that it can exceed 20 knots. But since an aircraft carrier can maintain 30 knots, I have to assume that the submarines protecting a carrier strike group at 30 plus knots can keep up with it.. But if one or more submarines are far in front of the carrier strike group then perhaps they don't need to match the carrier's speed.
In other words, a submerged submarine can only communicate with the rest of the world, and vice versa via very low frequency (VLF) radio waves. There are only a few places in the world that can communicate via VLF.
Also another factor is how much a submarine can interface with other tactical data collectors while submerged. That is either difficult or impossible because such communications capabilities would be classified if it were possible.
I live near a naval base in the states and it's crazy to see some of these things just cruise by.
The Columbia class of ballistic missile submarines are the replacements for the Ohio class submarines. The first of the Columbia class began construction in 2020; it is expected to enter service by 2031.
The Dreadnought class ballistic missile submarine is the Columbia class' UK counterpart. The Dreadnought class is the replacement for the Vanguard class.
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is in Kittery Maine. They have Subs there. My work took me there and Brunswick Naval Air Station and A small base in Cutler also in Maine. All of them beautiful places.
If that sub launches its missiles, the world doesn't change, the world ends. That launch won't go unanswered, which will then require further launches from us, which will then be answered with more missiles from the enemy.
How fast does a USN Submarine go? Yes,
why do you think they are called the silent service
Lurk! Lurk! Lurk! 🎉
Do a reaction on the bunker buster. The bomb that was made out of a howitzer barrel in a month or something like that.. I'm not exactly sure what the name is but it was during the war with iraq
GBU-28. Went from design to deployment in 3 weeks. The Fat Electrician has a good video on it
The nuclear fuel lasts 25 yrs in the Ohio class, 40 years for the up coming Columbia class.
I think the Sea Wolfe attack subs were probably the most dangerous though...
The thing is… this vid only tells you the ‘unclassified’ statistics of the boat… the ‘classified’ parts are much much more mental!
I was usaf… to get to my unit, you had to have a TSSCI clearance to just enter the building. What PR said we did vs what we could actually do we’re night and day descriptions.
When it comes to classifying depth, speed, and other specifications... and why submarines are the 'silent service'... look up Kentucky Congressman Andrew J. May.
At the beginning of the war, the Japanese didn't know how deep American subs could go, so they were setting their depth charges too shallow.
After visiting the Pacific, the Congressman decided to set his constituent's minds at ease, and told them this.. in the newspaper.
The Japanese then started setting their fuses deeper.
He cost the US at least 8 Subs and crews. That is about 570 men.
firstly, great video. Since you have learned a lot about fighter jets and their capabilities. I think you would like hype ops (hypothetical operation) where they make realistic simulated battles with missiles and air defense missiles. Super informative.
Love your show ke3p up the great work.. very nice to watch and have a laugh😂..
check out the typhoon class by russia, it has a pool on board
What happens if I’m not that old and think it’s annoying?. Don’t worry I know what a reaction video is. But the question still remains .
9:12 these boats are actually MASSIVE theyre like 450 feet long or something. They dont fit in the same dry docks as fast attack subs like the LA class.
Edit: 12:10 these ballistic subs (nicknamed, aptly, boomers) are basically the world superpower equivalent of concealed carry. Its practiced in hopes of never being needed. And yes the world would be forever changed if even a single missile was launched, much in the same way your life would be changed in a defensive shooting and for the person who made it necessary.
Im liking this analogy a bit too much at this point
When you factor in all the Air Craft Carriers, Submarines, F22’s, and F35’s etc… All other apparatus is hate to be on the receiving end of the US Navy 🤨
Learn about the Thresher. Anybody who starts to work on the assembly of defense Subs (at least used to be) learns about the demise of the Thresher.
They are being retired. A family member was on the design team.
There are indications that they're the fastest boats in the world. Like in excess of 50 mph. Maybe freeway speeds.
It's a brilliant channel this, the lads enthusiasm shows bounds. Superb
👍 (in a good way, but you don't strike me as an ex-marine?) I know you were of course, but I think it lends appeal to the channel along with what sometimes can be contentious subjects. Anyway, massive compliment, I have no affiliation to this channel whatsosever, but I would say 'smash a like' and 'subscribe' guys & girls. It's really good & keep it up buddy. 👌
Love the content keep up the great work
Love seeing you reaction to the us military can’t wait for more videos to come
I always watch your videos but I think the page that originally posted this video is now gone.
Days on vs Days off I’m in 😎👍
So close, yet so far............
I would NEVER want to be on a submarine...a metal coffin...DEEP underwater...that is expected to be shot at?... NO TY!
Tomahawk cruise missiles already have been used quite a bit. They were used extensively in the first gulf war - Desert Storm - 288 Tomahawks were launched at the start of the air war. 12 from subs, the rest from surface ships. They have also been used in other conflicts such as Serbia, Afghanistan, Libya, and the later gulf conflicts and terrorist targets.
I served on the USS Florida (SSBN-728 and SSGN-728). Don't mess with the US lol. The food was good.
In addition to the Submarine videos done by SmarterEveryDay that others are commenting on, he also has a video on the AIM-9 Sidewinder Missile
FYI, the Royal Navy has several submarines that carry Trident Missiles. The UK builds its own sub and warheads, but they buy the Trident missiles from the US. Trident missiles are loaded on subs and serviced at the Strategic Weapons Facility Atlantic, located at Kings Bay, Georgia.
There was a somewhat amusing incident a few years back. An RN sub [I won't identify it, but it was in a quite few news reports] was in Kings Bay to have its missiles serviced. The Crew broke quarantine and went foraging for booze and strips clubs. Some of them were up to 200 miles away in Florida. Unfortunately, they also managed to find COVID.
13:21 quite misleading that they're talking about the conventional SSGN version while showing nuclear warfare in the background.
Subbed for the mead show
US Military technology will evolve to make a submarine carrier where unmanned drones will be launched from underneath the ocean and piloted by pilots on the submarine, kind of like using flight simulators but for real. Drones will also be used to deliver surprise undetected air strikes that no one will see coming until it's too late. It's obvious that Drones are the future of weaponry and submarines will be adapted to carry drones. Drones weapons systems will make the ballistic missles obsolete in the next 2 to 3 decades as technology is vastly being pushed in this realm.
The briefs say the ohio has to surface. Im pretty sure they can do thier entire deployment submerged, though. Thier only limit is food.
Not directly on the missiles, but their payloads, "Trinity and Beyond", goes over the testing and history of the devices those Trident II D-5 missiles are delivering
Have us a cheeky peek. 😂😂❤
The channel BalticaBeer has uploaded a very comprehensive documentary on the AIM-9 Sidewinder family of American heat-seeking missiles, it is an hour long however. The channel Smarter Every Day has a shorter video talking about how the sidewinder works more generally.
An Ohio class can do 30+ knots. - It wouldn't want to because it makes a bunch of noise going that fast. You wouldn't even believe me if I told you how fast our Aircraft Carriers can go.
Do a video on Wrexham AFC. I know it's not normal fodder but your prospective would be refreshing
You need to go to the Air Force Air Museum outside the gate of Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Not only famous aircraft but also missiles to include an Air Force Missile Silo that has been in the Central U.S. web.
I think the SeaWolf class is the most deadly
I dont see how a submarine can hold so many missiles and still have room for anything else
9:10 it sctually doesn't. Majority of this video you're only seeing the submarine from above the surface. If you could see the rest of it, it is much bigger than you're probably thinking. Plus there actually is space between and along those missile silos.
How many times has these subs been updated.
Good morming yall^-^/ stay safe and have a great day
My name is inside the prop shaft coupling on one of these boats. For a few more years anyways.
Edit: 4:35 if HLC ever does a video on(just) patriot vs Aegis you should give it a go. I know he's talked about it but that might have been a podcast (unsub) or part of a larger video
How do they surface so fast and not have the effects of a diver doing the same? Even if was a giant decompression chamber, how do they do so fast let me know please