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Great reaction as usual Biss. Miss Bisscute, the captain of Red October was played by Sean Connery, the first man to play the character of James Bond, his filmography is extensive, but I suggest two films starring him for future reactions: Il nome della rosa (in italian, 1986) and The Rock with Nicolas Cage, great performances beyond his accent that you will surely enjoy.😊
Falls dir der Film gefällt, wäre "Das Kartell" bzw Englischer Titel "Clear and Present Danger" auch was für dich, quasi der nächste Teil aus dieser Tom Clancy Reihe. Die Rolle die hier Alec Baldwin spielt, wird dort von Harrison Ford übernommen =)
I loved the movie when I watched it.
if you want a laugh watch Dead Meat starring Temuera Morrison (Jenga fet ,Boba Fet and Aquamans Dad)
Try a golden oldie....
"ICE STATION ZEBRA"
USSR vs USA Cold war spy... Definitely NO CGI 😂😂😂
I was a nuclear power plant operator on the USS Bremerton (SSN-698), which is the same class as the USS Dallas (SSN-700). This movie is the closest depiction of what we used to do with the Russians. We would follow them for weeks without them knowing we were there.
Weaponeer on Trafalgar S107... Greetings :)
shipmate, I feel like the lighting on the dallas wasn't right though. It looked dark and.....blue?? Did you guys have "rig for blue" on Bremerton? I was on Florida (SSBN-728) and technically also Asheville, although asheville was in drydock the whole time so those are low sodium dolphins on that boat lol. This was 1999 to 2003. Four patrols on Florida, DD-214 says 365 days at sea. Longest I was underwater was 87 days.🙂
Semper Fi Brother.
@@neutrino78x No, we had rig for red only. Everything else was white fluorescent lighting. My longest trip underwater was 77 days.
@@AbbyNormL
" No, we had rig for red only. Everything else was white fluorescent lighting. "
Yeah, same on Florida. Yet for some reason they have even the scenes on the Dallas appear too dark, even though they were apparently filmed on Dallas herself! 😲
Plus sonar doesn't look remotely like it did in this movie, lol. (they can show passive broadband waterfall; that's actually the only display in sonar that's NOT classified (I was STS3(SS). 🙂)
Cold War American submariner here. I was on a Boomer out of Rotten Groton, and played the game with the Russians. This is an incredibly accurate movie, based on an even more accurate book. As part of Groton, I got to see the advance screening of this movie, sans any civilian employees or dependants, the same day our counterparts in San Diego did. The very few inaccuracies were called out, but there was basically unanimous laughter when Alec Baldwin asked the question, "How do you get a crew to want to get off a nuclear sub?". Everyone knows the answer is simple: open the hatch.
Fast Attack out of Groton for me, but after the end of the Cold War.
Grad from rotten Groton in "76. Ended up on a WWII Destroyer in the reserve fleet so got out when enlistment was up.
"Open the hatch." Great answer! I was going to say pull into any port that has women . . .
@@RobertLutece909 Missile boats: they launch things that go "boom".
@@RobertLutece909 Oh, those are the ones that go "boom", and make things glow.
I know, too, just trying to not scare the kids. 🙂
Biss, Sean Connery always has his native Scottish accent whether he's playing British secret agent James Bond or an Irish cop in New York or even a Russian submarine captain, it was too strong to overcome.
or as a Japanese-Spanish-Egyptian sword fighter
Irish cop in Chicago, if you mean _The Untouchables._
I think it was cool enough that the movie started out with actors acting as part of the USSR speaking in Russian at the beginning. That way, you could instantly tell what side Sean Connery was on.
You are totally right. His native Scottish accent was way too strong trying to speak in English with a Russian accent as well as others with native British or Irish accents to those who could tell at least. At 7:30 in the video, she stated that "his Russian doesn't sound like native Russian" and that was just at the very beginning of the movie.
It's can be hard to try and pretend to have an accent of a different language that your not native to depending on where your from. Image all the actors in the movie on in the USSR side trying to do that throughout the movie. 😆
@@rickpat-x9u YES!
They had some of an excuse here claiming that he was a Lithuanian. Although... it's also funny that Lithuanians actually spoke best Russian out of Baltic states. Not me. Never managed to learn it.
There are two types of Sonar, "Passive" where the Sub just listens and stays undetectable. The second is "Active" sonar which sends out sound waves and gives away the senders position... 99% of the time they just use Passive.
Addendum to this....
A ship or submarines propellers make noise, like how your tires make noise while driving... faster you go, more noise you make. But if the submarine cuts engines to stop (the propellers, not the actual engine, via a transmission, like a car), then it doesnt make noise... when the Red October did a "crazy Ivan" turn around the Dallas, the Dallas put the gearvto Stop, but boats drift, so the danger was theyre now quiet but might drift into the Red October.
Other things that make noise are opening torpedo doors, flooding torpedo tubes, and the hull stretching or compressing from changing depth.
The Caterpillar Drive on the Red October was a big deal because the noise it would make would be soooo quiet compared to the propeller noise.
Countermeasures they used worked because they made the water bubbly, and the bubbles collapsed making noise.
When Ramius was responding to Mancuso's persicope messages by ordering "verify our range to target, 1 ping only"... that is what Active Sonar is... which is how a bat navigates... sending out a sound, then timing it's return. But it also tells your target exactly where you are, like shouting in a dark room.
26:08 love this moment. The Admiral is letting the Captain know that Ryan is not just a spy but one of them. They are both graduates of the Naval Academy who have spent their entire adult lives in uniformed service to country.
However, because of Ryan’s injury he didn’t get the chance to do what they did. But despite his injuries Ryan is still trying to service and do his part.
The “see through” shots are not mistakes. It’s how they did green screen shots, where the foreground film is made slightly transparent compared to the background film. This softens the edges to make it look more believable, otherwise the outline would stick out and it would look horrible. The downside is you can slightly see through it if you pay attention. Star Wars used this technique in many of the spaceship shots and you can slightly see through cockpit metal props.
Sam Neill talking about Montana and the simple freedoms of living in America is such a powerfully understated way to damn the USSR and its failure to the people who sacrified for the red revolution.
A berth is a place to dock ships. A WIDE berth would be a place dock with a lot of space. So if you are giving someone a wide berth you are giving them a lot of space or distance.
One of my favorite movies.
I'm very impressed with how well you kept up with this complicated plot and all of its moving parts. Well done!
Hey Biss, this is a good movie and glad you liked it. Can’t believe half way through, you said “It’s the cook.” 😂 You really do have an uncanny ability with predicting that stuff
But she did say, "Maybe the Doctor" and then "Maybe the Engineer"
21:58 "So you cannot turn back."
Ah. Biss, you got it. You hit the nail _squarely_ on the head. I'm impressed. I've seen reactors stumped by that as _well._
Yes. Ramius knew, when he was drawing _up_ this plan and choosing prospective _loyalists_ that there would be those with second _thoughts._ That kind of division in the ranks, he knew would produce _complications;_ the kinds of complications prospective _defectors_ have no business _having._ He understood, if the _Red October_ and its officers were to successfully defect, they would have to be looking straight _ahead._
The actor who plays the Russian captain is Sean Connery. One of the most famous actors out of Great Britain and the actor who plays Admiral Greer (James Earl Jones) also did the voice for Darth Vader.
"Boomer" is a word used for a military submarine that is used as a nuclear missile platform first. Larger subs usually are meant for this, a first strike weapon in case of a war as they carry nukes. They can of course use torpedoes in naval combat as well, but that is not their primary function. The smaller submarine from the other Russian captain that was hunting the Red October was the hunter type, smaller and leaner, meant for direct combat with other submarines and boats.
"Boomer" is also a word used to bail out of an argument while pretending that you've won. The etymology from the one sense to the other is unclear.
A lot of famous names here. Sean Connery (the first James Bond), James Earl Jones (voice of Darth Vader), Fred Thompson (Played a D.A. on Law & Order, but also was a U.S. Senator for the state of Tennessee), Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show & Clue) - that's just a few of the most famous.
Fun fact, the actor who played the 2nd in command on the Red October, Sam Neil, his last words were "I would love to have seen Montana", the same actor played in Jurassic Park, where his character is introduced at a dig site in Montana
In the on screen introduction at the beginning, when it said "it never happened", it doesn't mean "fictional", it means "classified, top secret".
Keep in mind this movie was made in 1990 :D. The technology for good green screen technology that would prevent the transparent issues at the end you noticed was in its infancy. It got a lot better and a lot more affordable over the next few years. Great reaction and fun movie. Thanks!
Not green screen, but front projection.
@@hgus stuff that wouldn't have shown up back then without 1080p
I think back then they were still using blue screen...
Someone probably already explained this in the last 11 months, but there are two types of sonar. Passive sonar is listening for sounds of things that are in the water. It can pick up almost anything above a certain level (which is why when they are trying to be silent, people can't talk in more than a whisper, the receivers are so sensitive that it can even pick up noises inside another vessel some distance away), the downside of that is that if you are quiet enough, you cannot be heard, and because of the propeller noise, passive sonar is completely blind to anything behind the submarine.
Active sonar is where the vessel sends out a loud ping of noise, and they record the sounds that echo back to them. This has the advantage of being able to detect almost anything within a certain range around the submarine, but has the disadvantage that if you are looking for an enemy vessel, because of the loud ping you just sent out they now know where you are too.
Planes are able to identify a submarine underwater by a device called the magnetic anomaly detector that can magnetically detect large metal objects beneath the surface. P-3 Orions are able to detect, track with sonar buoys, and then drop torpedoes or depth charges to destroy the sub.
Dunno if you recognized the actor, Tomas Arana, who played the cook or not, but you HAVE seen him at least once before. He played Quintus, Maximus' second in command in Germania, the guy who ordered Maximus' execution.
First film in the Jack Ryan saga (with Alec Baldwin as the first actor to play him). This was followed by Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger (played by Harrison Ford), The Sum of All Fears (played by Ben Affleck), Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (played by Chris Pine) and the Amazon series Jack Ryan (played by by John Krasinki).
And yes, Bisscute. It's true. We know more about our moon than our oceans. Look out for Krakens!😉
The Russian sailor who started singing in the sub is the actor who played Tigris in Gladiator. The gladiator who came out of retirement to fight Maximus. Big guy for a sub.
A "berth" in terms of ships is the place at the dock where the ship ties up. To give a wide berth is to give plenty of room between the ship and the dock, so they don't hit. It means to keep plenty of room from the object you will give a "wide berth" to. Colloquially, it's often used as "to stay away from" generally. For example, you could say you will give another person a "wide berth" which will generally mean you will avoid them.
I see, thanks
The way I always get around the lack of a Russian accent is to suspend disbelief just a little further and decide that their accent is being pretend-translated into English for me just like their words. Also, we’re meant to imagine that they’re continuing to speak Russian amongst themselves, so they wouldn’t hear much of an accent at all.
I see it the same way. When switching to English, it was implied quite clearly that conversations would continue to be in the native language and it was only changed for the audience. an accent would have made no sense.
@@enricokramer7469 Exactly this. It's likely some officers could speak some English, but not the crew, so the switch they make early on is supposed to indicate, still Russian but now spoken in English to avoid subtitles the entire movie. From a time when Hollywood believed Americans wouldn't watch a whole movie with subtitles.
The way I get around it, is to understand that the movie was an "American" movie made for an "American" audience, made toward the end of the Cold War. As a Canadian who watched the movie when it came out in theatres (and a 2nd time on IMAX - pretty cool!) I understood the need to appeal to an American audience, who has had very little exposure to Russia and Russian culture ---1990 was an interesting year!
The Sonar "ping" goes in all directions. Sound travels far in water. When the sound wave encounters and object, it is reflected, (echoes) back and is picked up by the sending ship. The closer to an object, the closer the pings will be together (active sonar). The ship's receiver microphones can detect from which direction the echo is coming, thus giving a position. The speed of the echo is then used to determine distance.
Not only that, but there's an entire layer of water, under the Earth's crust, that has five times the water in all the oceans, and another entire submerged continent!😮😮😮
"We must give this American a wide berth." "I don't know what a 'berth' is . . ." In this context, the berth is kind of like the "personal space" of the vessel. "Giving someone/something a wide berth" means to give it plenty of room. Aside from in this specific phrase, "berth" is more generally a nautical term describing a resting place (like a sailor's bed or the place where a ship is tied up at a wharf or dock).
A sub moving through salt water with it's coating generates an electric field that could, in certain circumstances, be dangerous.
Military submarines fall into 2 main categories - “Fast attacks” - which are subs designed to hunt other subs. “boomer” means a missile submarine - capable of launching nuclear weapons.
There are several ways an aircraft can detect a submarine apart from visually on the surface.. As you mentioned they do have sonar buoys they drop and listen to but some also have a magnetic anomaly detector which can detact the disturbance in the earth's magnetic field caused by the mass of steel of the hull of the submarine. Also when they referred to a "boomer out of the barn" they are discussing a ballistic missile submarine leaving Murmansk (Main submarine base of Russia's Northern Fleet) rather than a hunter killer like the Dallas. Hope that helps :)
When she said : BOOMER , A OLD SUB ? I couldn't stop laughing
@@donaldjz ... But in all fairness the first Typhoon was laid down in the mid 70's and the last was only decommissioned earlier this year so "old" is still quite an accurate description especially since my last boat was only active for 30 years.. However it also gave me a chuckle :)
The actor playing Marko Ramius Is Sean Connery, he is Scottish. Most know as James Bond 007 and Professor Henry Jones as Indiana's Father.
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The Captain, when addressing the Crew did not say he would attack the US. He said "Carry out missile exercises""
"...and listen to their rock-n-roll." 😀
When you hear "yards" you can think meters. They're very similar.
A yard is three feet. When you hear "feet", you can divide by three and think of that in meters.
FYI: a yard is 36 inches, a metre is 39.37 inches, so roughly the same distance. If you're being precise, 12 metres is around 13 yards.
Subs have two types of SONAR, active SONAR and passive SONAR. Active SONAR is mounted in the sub but has less range/accuracy. Passive SONAR is generally achieved by dragging antenna leads behind the sub to generate longer range/more accuracy.
"I don't think he is... his Russian doesn't sound like native Russian."
- Bisscute talking about Sean Connery 🤣
My brother served on the USS Alabama during the Gulf War. All I know of what he did is that he manned the ELF radio
Having seen several reactions to this movie, you had a much quicker and better grasp of the tactical decisions being made than anyone else I've seen. Excellent reaction, ma'am!
Thank you, glad you liked this
13:50 Yes it is the anthem.
If you love underwater so much you should definitely watch “The Abyss”
I've always loved this movie, it is a great example of how to build mystery and tension and overall it treats the audience like they are intelligent, balancing keeping us informed and also letting us figure things out as the characters do. I think the whole points of there only being 1-2 other brief scenes, and like one line, for the cook is the element of the movie of the importance of unexpected things and details that other people might miss. Bravo on catching it the first time, because my first watching I thought it was the Doctor too. I like that you make guesses and are honestly reacting to the films you watch, I do the same thing, not always out loud, but I enjoy trying to puzzle things out too.
To give context as to how scary this situation would be.
The Typhoon class subs carried 20 ballistic missiles. Each missile carried 10 nuclear warheads for a total of 200 warheads. Each warhead was five times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
22:24 - He didn't have a problem with war in general. He had a problem with the sub being designed for a nuclear first strike.
Just watching this great movie again.
I can't believe that it is over 30 YEARS old!!
Boy time flies!
An aircraft can use a Magnetic Anomaly Detector to find a submarine, A large metal submerged object can deflect the Earths magnetic field enough to be detected.
You're understanding and intelligence is really remarkable in all your videos.
"Let's give this American a wide berth." Berth means to give the American enough space so they don't shoot at them.
I like the way the accents were generally handled in this movie. For the bulk of the film the crew of the Red October are all speaking Russian, and we hear the English translation, without Russian accents. Sean Connery’s Scottish accent substitutes for Ramius’s Lithuanian accent, etc. When we get to parts of the movie where the Russian characters are speaking English, we get accents (though Ramius still has his Scottish accent.)
Just an FYI, the Submarine predates the airplane by 127 years. The first functioning Submarine used in battle was on September 6, 1776. The Wright Brothers did not fly until December 17, 1903.
Love your mentioning Bushnell's "Turtle".
The cook's assistant hesitated when Raimius told him "come here" (as if the cook was afraid) and the Captain had to repeat his order. That was the subtle hint.
Biss, while you are correct we haven't discovered everything that's in the ocean and it's huge.. keep in mind the water pressure as you go down further. creatures that live down there wouldn't survive up here, just as we can't survive down there not just because of air, but because the water pressure is so massive. There's no telling what's down there, but a squid would have a hard time with a submarine like that one. that's a big submarine, and it's made of strong metal designed for the water pressure. the squid is made of flesh.
Best line in the entire movie “more tea anyone” you are the only person I have watched that got that!!! 😂
A boomer in naval slang is a ballistic missile submarine, typically capable of launching nuclear missiles.
In regards to the sub that was lost diving on the Titanic, all of the experts seem to agree they should never have built the sub out of composites. If I understand correctly, composites are weak against pressure that runs perpendicular to the grain. Pressure on the hull is precisely that.
Note: "Boomer" refers to a missile-launching sub, as opposed to a "Hunter-Killer" or attack sub meant to go after other ships.
One clarification but the crew didn't think they were going to nuke an American city. He told them their orders were to get near the American coast and conduct missile DRILLS. To practice but not actually launch nukes. The false orders were a "training mission" one that gave a plausible reason for why the sub was going so close to American so the captain could setup the defection.
the reason the actors are not speaking with a Russian accent is the characters aren't meant to be "speaking" English, they are in fact speaking Russin and the movie is just translating for the English speaking audience.
Love how you called it with the cook, haha... "I knew it was the fkn cook!"
7:35 Sean Connery is Scottish that’s why he doesn’t sound Russian- he’s the original James Bond
Great reaction Biss! You were spot on with your analysis of the plot! Luv it! A good Scott Glen movie is backdraft about Chicago firefighters. Luv ya biss❤💛
36:40 Jack sounded like a Marine and not a CIA desk jockey in this moment. This Devil Dog still knows how to bark.
Active Sonar and Passive Sonar. Active Sonar creates a "Ping" of sound that travels out from the sonar array, reflects off the target (and everything else) and returns to the sonar array. The Active system using a computer and tech then builds a "map" of the environment and things moving in it. Passive Sonar just listens to everything and tried to identify important sounds and ignore everything else. Then the sonar tech thinks he hears singing, he's listening to passive sonar. When the Russian Captain "Verifies range to target" they are using active sonar. Active sonar is a two way thing. Like yelling in the dark vs, just sitting quietly and listening.
The Clancy novel specifies Red October was named after a tractor assembly plant just outside Moscow, which was, in turn, nsmed after the Russian Revolution that overthrew the Tsarist rule.
The Typhoon subs, as NATO called them, were called Alfa by the Soviets. NATO used the name Alfa for a Soviet attack biat called Lira, which is still thought to be the fastest sub class ever built - possibly because the shiekding around the reactor was dangerously thin, saving weight at the cost of possible radiation exp ou sure for the crew. The submarine Red October was supposed to play tag with originally, was an Alfa/Lira, that's why it was able to burst in on the scene in the movie climax despite being several days behind in the chase. So a Typhoon/Alfa has to duel a Alfa/Lira.
When i was in the Navy i spent 7 weeks beneith the surface on the USS Ohio back in 96. Soooo much fun. 😐.
Hi Biss, Chernobyl is an excellent series, full of dramatic and desperate moments. It's a series with few episodes that leaves anyone looking forward to the next event.
She'd complain through the whole thing about the lack of Russian accents.
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-- Give the American submarine a wide birth // BERTH (noun) enough space for a boat to maneuver --a small bed in a boat or train
-- Buckaroo is an old fashioned word meaning COWBOY
It wasn't fake news. What they were implying is that this story could be true, or not. But it's a secret. This was during the cold war when the US and Soviet Russia played a lot of cat and mouse games with each other, A boomer is a nickname for a very large submarine. The captain is Sean Connery. Very famous actor who played James Bond. He's Scottish, and rumor has it that he refused to do a fake Russian accent, so they let him keep his Scottish accent. There were actually quite a few real Russian actors in there too, so their accents were good, but the Americans had so-so accents. But Sean Connery knew he would get a lot of criticism if his accent was not good, so he said no. The US Navy actually has DSRV rescue subs. I was in the Navy and used to repair subs and worked on one of those DSRV's. As far as the "mistakes, this movie's special effects were considered to be very good at the time. There was no CGI, so the subs were actually miniatures and the the underwater scenes were filmed in a room full of smoke to make it look like water. Thanks for this reaction. You're smart and figured a lot of things out, and it's one of the reasons I like your channel
The admiral on the carrier is played by the late actor who was an actual senator from Tennessee Fred Thompson. He was in a lot of movies including Days of Thunder with Tom Cruise.
Perhaps the most intelligent and perceptive reaction I've seen to this film yet.
Fun fact for fans of the show LOST: the Soviet crewman who launches the air-dropped torpedo on the Red October, played Mikhail in Lost (dude with the eye patch)
Haven’t seen LOST
29:25 "How would an anti-submarine aircraft find a submarine when they're underwater so deep?"
Sonar.
Sonar sends a soundwave out through the water. If that wave hits something like a submarine for example, it bounces back to the sonar receiver.
For sonar to work properly, the signal must be sent and received in the water.
So aircraft like this one drop lots of "sonobuoys" that float on the surface, send sonar signals into the water, detect whatever bounces back, then radio the results to the aircraft.
regarding sonar; many submarines have several sonar; in the nose of the vessel called the conal sonar, sonar down the sides called the conformal sonar (but because of the noise of the ocean along the sides, its practically useless...), and finally the towed sonar array, the most sensitive sonar that can hear from much further away from a target and its range of hearing is much cleaner than the others. in the movie, the Russians used a maneuver called Crazy Ivan; turning 360 degrees to see if anyone would be behind them. in reality, the towed sonar array makes it so that that kind of maneuver would by pointless as it wouldn't be needed.
"His accent doesn't sound Russian".
That's Sean Connery. "James Bond". He's Scottish. ;)
Scott Glen, the Dallas captain, is great in everything.
Try the Western Silverado if you haven't seen it.
Scott Glenn is Awesome in most everything he does... "Silverado," "Backdraft," "The Right Stuff," "Silence of the Lambs"....
The city of Dallas, Texas is also known as The Big D.
A "buckaroo" or "cowboy", in this context, means an aggressive captain who is looking for a fight.
About the language. They wanted Sean Connery as lead and he couldn't do a Russian accent so they came up with that neat transition. This allowed Sean Connery to be comfortable and concentrate on his acting instead of his accent. It works because you still believe he is Russian despite his obvious Scottish accent because he is a great actor. These are the concessions that movies have to make.
In the movie all the Russians they gave British accents, probably because the star was Sean Connery, and all the Americans had American accents. That is how you were supposed to instantly know what side they were on.
The sonar can hear almost all around except directly behind.
The ship towards the end is an Oliver Hazard Pery Class Guided Missile Frigate. I had the honor to serve aboard one of those ships back in the 80s. They were used for anti-submarine warfare and escort service to aircraft carriers. They are tough little ships.
Hello Bisscute, remember when boating: always wear your life preserver.
I think you'd really enjoy....
"Sneakers" (Great cast, entertaining and intriguing story with a bit of comedy mixed in.)
and
"Red Heat" (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Arnold). Russian Cop teams up with American Cop to bust some international drug smugglers.
The candy that Pelt was snacking on sets more firmly the approximate year. President Reagan was famous for having a taste for jelly beans.
Sonar works like when you drop a rock into water and the wave expanding but if you have something that breaks up the wave like a propeller, you can’t hear behind the propeller.
46:28 "Yards. Feets. I just need km and m."
This one is easy.
1 yard = 1 meter.
Not exactly, but close enough to understand.
So when the guy said "600 yards" you think "600m" and you'll be super close (It's really about 550 but unless you're building a house or something, the 1:1 approximation is close enough to translate movies).
And 1 foot is 1/3 of a yard or meter, so if he had said "600 feet" instead, just divide by 3 and think it's 200m and you'll be close enough.
I served aboard a U.S. Navy Frigate, similar to the surface ship that is seen picking up the crew of the Red October, during the time that the movie is set. We were an anti sub warfare ship. We played the game with the Soviet subs in the North Atlantic. The North Atlantic is unofficially considered U.S. Navy territory because we have so many naval assets in the waters of the North Atlantic. Fun fact, at that time Frigates and their bigger brothers Destroyers used oil fired boilers as their main power systems. The Frigate I was aboard required two days to build up steam for her to get underway. I know because we had to take one of our sister ship's missions last minute and we couldn't get underway for two days.
SSNs are Nuclear Powered Attack Subs. SSBNs are Nuclear Powered Ballistic Missile subs - Boomers. SSGNs are Nuclear Powered Guided Missile subs. SS is the designations given to non-nuclear powered submarines.
You can watch the sequels to this film - Patriot Games, and Clear & Present Danger. In those, Harrison Ford plays the character who Alex Baldwin is playing in this movie.
Dear Biss, ASW aircraft drop sonar bouys, and if they hear a submarine, the aircraft can drop weapons to kill the submarine.
46:44 the Army uses SI, but on submarines we use nautical units (nautical miles, yards), for (1) tradition and (2) the nautical units take the curvature of the earth into account. 🙂
29:36 they can drop a sonar set into the water and listen for the boat.
On submarines, we consider high altitude aircraft that do ASW to be a joke, lmao.
You see, the Navy uses ASW = anti-submarine warfare. But on a submarine it means auxiliary seawater, one of the mechanical systems on the submarine.
So when a surface guy says he is in asw, we say, "oh, so you're a machinist mate who works on the auxiliary seawater system?" lmao. 🙂
Though this is a fictionalized story for dramatic purposes, author Tom Clancy was inspired by various incidences of Russian military officers and/or crews defecting during the Cold War. Occasionally, some showed up in ships or submarines.
Several of the actors who
Played the Russians were defectors and were actual Russians and did have a Russian accent when speaking English.
And a “boomer” submarine means a nuclear missile boat, not an old one!!!
In case you need a rough conversion for lengths, there are three feet in a yard, and a yard is just about one meter. Miles and kilometers are less easy to convert, but 6 miles is about 10 kilometers, so about 1.6 km in a mile.
Biss, I love, really love your sense of humor. You're a born communicator, and it's always a treat to watch your reactions.
"wide berth" = lots of space / distance / clearance.
That little sub that imploded was a commercial enterprise. The owner didn't want to pay the fees involved with getting it CERTIFIED safe by experts. He died with his clients. Greed kills.
Yes, Alec Baldwin shot his cinematographer on set in New Mexico, about an hour from me in Albuquerque. The charges were dropped but the "armourer" -- the 24yo woman in charge of guns on set -- is subject to charges. It was her job to ensure the rounds inside the gun were blanks. How a live round got in there will be debated forever. Rumor says it was sabotage against the armourer, who is a local. I've lived here 11 years, and apparently, NM has a history of people holding grudges. But it's also possible that crew members took some guns during a break to shoot cans, and the guns weren't rechecked (so says Wikipedia). To me, there's shouldn't have been live rounds within 5 miles of the set.
I've been to Los Alamos NM a few times. It's a great little town in the mountains. My brother's friend works at the Lab. He lives on Oppenheimer Way! Two things about that town. It has the highest per capita income in the US. And you can drive on the public road by the Lab, but your car will be stopped, and a guard will look at your license. The same thing happens if you approach from the west. I've never seen that anywhere else. If you have a NM license, no sweat. If you don't, I assume they ask more questions.