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Turning any nuclear powered ship into a museum is dicey at best. There would be a LOT of radioactive materials in the engine room that would be VERY expensive to remove before you'd ever let people near it. As the USN starts retiring the Nimitz class CVN's in the coming decades no one's really counting on any of them being preserved.
@@tancar2004 Nope, true there are areas that have a higher background than others but there are sailors working next to those areas during five to six hour shifts multiple times a day with no effects. I doubt a tour group spending five minutes at most in those areas will get any more than what they would get from the flight over to see the museum. As far as the reactor compartments they will be defueled and most of the hot spots will have decayed or been taken care of with the crud bursts and clean ups during the final shutdowns and cooldowns by the time the ship is ready for a museum. I mean they have tours through Pripyat and Chernobyl, I'm sure they could get at least one of these fit for museum work.
Russia can't even keep its own aircraft Carrier the only one it has in well operating condition I doubt they would turn the behemoth into a museum but it you're right it would be cool
I retired in 1991 and my last deployment was specifically to look for the new Typhoon. I don't know why people say they are noisy. We never saw it once it submerged. Eighty-nine days of wandering around listening to fish farts and whale grunts.
Typically 1 person will say it's noisey and that fact gets parroted around endlessly and before long it becomes a "public fact". Doesn't help that people often compared old tech to modern tech rather than comparing apples to apples and talking about how detectable it was at the time or during its mission (like sailing under the arctic). I don't really know enough about the Typhoon to argue facts with most people but subs are poorly understood in general. I've heard some people bring up those sneaky Scandinavian diesel subs that "sunk" an aircraft carrier in a war game, often saying what they could do against the US in the open ocean without bringing up their insanely short range and slow speed
He-he. I retired from Typhoon in 1989 after 103 days on patrol. As we were told (and it was confirmed later by Americans) the main source of noise was from secondary pumps.
So here's what I heard from Aaron Amick (former 688 sonarman who tracked down Typhoon during his career): if you see a blank spot with no ambient noise, that's your Typhoon
My Dad was at the Naval War College in the early 80's. They tracked one for 3 months. It never ventured out of Soviet waters. Always under Soviet air cover.
So glossed over the under ice capabilities, the whole reason why Typhoon ICBM had greater range is because they needed it due to needing to travel over the poles to reach their targets. Additionally, the Typhoon CANNOT launch their ICBM submerged like the Ohio. As such, the sub had to be massive enough be able to break through ice in order to launch. Fun Fact: If the ice is too thick, the sail can break through, but the crew will have to use steam hoses to melt the ice to allow launch of ICBM. So in the case of a Russian launch, it takes considerable time and effort to complete the launch. This is its liability as the Typhoon is NOISY and almost always followed by a U.S attack submarine. If a Typhoon tried to launch its ICMBs, it would be destroyed before they even completed their surfacing activity. The Typhoon like most Russia equipment is Paper effective but in real world would be destroyed if actually tried to be used.
Thanks for the info! This is just ridiculous, bigger is not necessarily better. Image the magnetic signature you can almost imagine seeing it bending the lines of flux. Also, the amount of water displaced must be similar to a mini tsunami. The engineer who dreamed this up must look like one of those "James Bond" evil scientist characters.
Very true, but correct me if I'm worng (I'm no expert) didnt most typhoon have an SSN escort like a Victor 3 or an akula when they were on deployment? I know a 688 was more than capable of dealing with them but lunching weapons is noisy and takes time?
"Well, there are those who believe that we should attack the United States first. Settle everything in one moment. Red October was built for that purpose.” -Marko Ramius
One scenario was to loiter beneath the seas and ice post Armageddon to outlast the western subs then launch and destroy anything the west had left. This was one reason they could stay submerged so long.
Served on one of those. Did many secret missions approached US coast. We were never spotted. This project was a big success. It was regarded as a secret. Our west partners have no clue about this type of submarine. Very little information about and most of them are misleading. I can guarantee you this was one of the most quiet sun ever made at the time. Propeller improvement was a big success. It could change the angles depending on the sea density. Current black hole (the quietest Russian sub)was developed using this revolutionary system. During my service we would approach US subs and whey will not even notice us….That was a special feeling of accomplishment. They would try to chase us but without much success. From Russia with Love. Sergei!
Another reason for their size was the requirement for reserve buoyancy to be able to break through some of the thicker ice sections and launch their weapons from around the Pole. It creates a shorter warning time for the target to respond as well as allows the ship to retreat under the ice for relative safety.
I was able to board the Russian Scorpion sub docked (and now sinking due to neglect) next to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. She has her own history in WW2. It was claustrophobic and hard to imagine being in with your life on the line.
You left out the part about them being so noisy that the USN could track them across the entire Atlantic Ocean, meaning that in wartime they'd have needed a miracle to survive 120 hours, let alone 120 days. A Los Angeles class could probably have zeroed in on one just by the sound of the water sloshing around in it's swimming pool.
Actually, it has been declassified, that during the cold ware, U.S. had Los Angeles class submarines following the Typhoon as soon as they left port. So in the case of nuclear war, they would have never been able to launch their ICBM because they have to surface to launch and that time is all that is needed to kill them. Especially if they had to break through ice and clear ice from decks.
@@mikecyanide7492 haven't ACTUALLY surface launched, or it hasn't been necessary to surface to launch their missiles? Because from what I've heard, only the US has the technology to launch while submerged, it's not an easy task.
You have to remember this is a Russian submarine. A big submarine. And the Russian aren't the best at maintaining anything much less than one of the most complicated gadgets ever built.
Actually is the opposite. The Russians are masters of maintenance while the USA has less maintenance and reliability management strategies for its inventory: this is not design failure: the ordering of new mil. equipment provides a vast impetus for the economy. The soviet and later the Russian economy had to deal with fewer resources as well as planned economy features of supply resulting for the surplus inventory to become quickly obsolete or scavenged for components. I remember myself in the early 90s such a surplus was even donated to Western Allies in fine condition. P.S. In the NATO manual of mil. capabilities of Russia (92? 93?) there is even a chapter on Russian maintenance where they are praised.
@@christopherneufelt8971 how have Russians mastered maintenance when they can’t even provide vehicles that don’t have rotten rubber tires? Their maintenance seems very, very poor compared to the US
@@christopherneufelt8971 Looks at the Kuznetsov whose main propulsion is tug boats was the chapter praising Russian maintenance praising their tug boat availability?
@@Kakarot64. Hi Kakarot. Tug boats are used in case of failure of engines or guidance to shallow ports or guidance to repair-shipyards (maneuvering in small installations). These submarines were huge compared to reparation-installations.
the typhoon is basically two submarines put together with a superstructure. The ICMB are housed in free flood areas because the Soviets did not trust their own crews. the typhone has a TON of waisted space that makes a majority of its dry mass.
"did not trust their own crews". And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner of stupid comment contest. In late 80s only 6 submarines out of 200+ in Soviet Navy had missiles in flooded area. The main reason for this was simple: first Soviet solid fuel ICBMS were too huge and heavy to fit inside. Additionally it greatly reduced vulnerability of the ship if something went wrong - like in 1991 when test missile on Tk-17 blew up inside the tube during launch they simply dived to quench the fire. No damage to the ship, no damage to other tubes.
@@sasasasa-lx6cl apart from the burned skin and severely damaged launch tube, including the tube door being blown off, I doubt this was the only damage. Diving wouldn't quench a solid rocket motor as the fuel and oxidizer are mixed together and once ignited its burning till its done underwater or not. It would have aided in dissipating the heat though and would have saved the sub.
@@sasasasa-lx6cl I don't understand why Soviet solid fuel ICBM's (I assume you meant SLBM's?) were too huge to fit in their submarine launch tubes while those of NATO countries were not? After all the majority of the solid fuel SLBM's use ammonium perchlorate with crosslinked polybutadiene composite, a fairly easy fuel to produce and one without much variation in impulse output. Any idea how come the Soviets had problems with that?
I am feeling sad for a submarine and a Soviet one at that!! Your work takes me to some places!! They were imposing and I found them beautiful as in art. Strange because that is the last thing they are. Terrific video, loved it and for reasons that surprised me. Bob England
The biggest weakness of these submarines is running while surfaced. Unlike any other submarines, a portion of the twin propellers of the typhoon submarines stick out when running surfaced. The propellers generate a very unique and loud noise signature. This makes identifying and tracking surfaced typhoon submarines very easy even over extremely long distances.
Yep, the Typhoon subs were massive and they were built to carry a huge arsenal of Intercontinental Missiles. They were not designed to transverse the oceans, but to lay in stealth beneath the Artic ice waiting for the order to launch. Although they might be old now there is apparently a few Typhoons left and on active duty, and the rest was dismantled years ago.
@@pieterveenders9793 There are plans to refit it with new Sarmat 200 ton ICBMs and send it into service. Its the only nuclear sub that can carry around 20 Sarmats. The Borei class only carries like 2 Sarmats at most if at all it can. So in the near future the only existing Typhoon will go back into service but with Sarmats this time.
@@boikanyoonneng9170 "There are plans to....." do all sorts of things in Russia but they never happen as they dont have the cash, the skilled people, resources or technology.
It's sad, Humanity is unlikely to ever build such a huge, powerful, menacing submarine again. The amount of titanium used in those things is unimaginable.
It's sad that humanity will never waste so much titanium and other resources building such massive weapons of war again? Or it's sad that we did it before?
Well it will be interesting to see if a submarine drone carrier will ever be made I'd imagine that would be another behemoth! But yeah, that was nuts when I heard about that, just welding Ti is very difficult compared to even stainless steel, and then to make a whole boat out of it. Even though Russia has essentially the world's supply of the stuff hopefully a lot of it can be recycled into future projects; and before anyone says it, no, just because it had a nuclear propulsion system doesn't mean the whole thing is a giant pile of glowing green goo, just the some of actual reactor components and primary coolant piping would need to be removed and put in a sarcophagus.
@@ryanjones7681 the ship is the museum and if you looked it up instead making yourself look dumb then you would know any decommissioned vessel can be scrapped or saved as a museum ship
@@lw7238 Does titanium oxidize in a salt water environment though? Just one of those folks too busy and frankly lazy to look things up so I can trigger basement dwellers.
It's sad to know there are no more of these amazing craft plying the deeps. Even if - as an American - it's the very craft that may have been the death of ne in any city nuclear war! It's just beautiful badassery in engineering in action. Just not 💥THAT💥 kind of action. Thank god! 🙏
Maryland, I believe. Near a sub base, anyway. He sorta taught them soviet tactics, if I remember correctly. Didn't Ramius die? Or am I confusing him with the Cardinal....
@@keatohenko Amazingly he made it, even though it looks like he died in the movie. Three years later he was a fully qualified paleontologist in Montana, living in a recreational vehicle. Didn't have two wives, though. Shame he couldn't hold onto Ellie. Subs to dinosaurs. Quite a leap in careers...
I don't know if it's still the case but many submarine crews of various nations in WWII would carry pet mascots on board with them. USS Skate (SS-305) had a chicken for a mascot. WWI submarine O-3 (SS-64) had a goat on board.
It's funny, it's both relieving and a bit sad it's being decommissioned. The new ones sound just as scary, but what an interesting piece of engineering these ships were.
When you look at Soviet equipment that was in use or on the drawing board in the 1980s (i.e. Typhoon SSBNs, Kirov BCGNs, Sovremennyy and Udaloy DDGs, MiG-29s, Su-33s, Yak-141s, Tu-160s, etc., etc.) and the vast size of the Soviet military at that time, then look at what's going on in Ukraine, it makes you realize that Russia is but a dim echo of the old USSR.
All you say is likely true HOWEVER I'm sure you realize that there a full blown proxy war with US giving Ukraine some of the most advanced weaponry. The US will fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian.
@@nomaam-br549 Not so in the first week. The Ukrainians were unprepared and had not yet received any of the massive amount of money and weaponry from the West yet. A Russian combined arms thunder run to the capital of Kiev ground to a halt under its own weight due to equipment breakdowns and lack of logistical support capability. As inefficient as the USSR was, they could at least road march a field army 75 miles without the entire operation breaking down for multiple days.
@@christineshotton824 western weapons are so unreliable and ukraine is constantly complaining of how they constanty need maintance unlike the soviet actually russian made weapons which ukraine inherited after the collapse of ussr
As I understand it the Typhoon when deployed moved below the Arctic icecap and settled to the bottom and did not move. The crew accommodations were designed for long underwater duration.
Nuclear subs can't settle on the bottom since their cooling intake is on the bottom. So I'm assuming you think they settled low to the bottom but not at the bottom. This is common knowledge btw.
@@Captain_Tumbleweed no Project Sapphire. Short version is the CIA stole reactor material from a manufacturing plant in Kazakhstan to keep from being used in the early 90s.
So many armchair submarine analysts here. They know for a fact this sub is soooooo noisy. Then you have an actual US submariner who says this baby was hard to track or they failed to tract it. It's really comical to see the armchair analysts. 😂
Christopher, that said they're are various portals in the Arctic that provide access to a Russian submarine, where in fact the ice DOES NOT freeze due to volcanic activity. Antarctica doesn't have a pole, to sail under these are seaway inaccessible, it's a continent!
Everytime I flew ASW missions I was hoping that we'd find a Typhoon - even though I knew the chance of that happening was non existent for the most part.
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@@LeopardIL2 wow, must have been nice. I saw it a few years after it was released, around 92 or 92. Loved it so much I bought it on DVD when it became available a few years later. Made me look for all Tom Clancy's books. Didn't stop till I read all the original Jack Ryan novels.
That was the case for me, I am not sure how old I was when I saw the movie for the first time but the movie came out when I was roughly 10 When I saw it i loved it so much I bought it on DVD as well, another great classic is K19 The Widow Maker. U571 was garbage.
@@googlreviews7813 Must say I havent seen K19, but I do have Red October and Crimson Tide on dvd. As well as all the old Jack Ryan movies. I agree U571 was horrible.
@@kvinteractive8981 Eh eh I bet you have doing some good reads. There are some good books related Blind Man's Bluff, The Red Star Rouge, and Scorpion, sank by the Soviets buried by the Pentagon. Happy readings!
Well, I've been a crewmember on three. Two were Trident submarines....much superior to the typhoons. Tridents have lasted 40+ years and are still in service. Typhoons lasted 8 years...all gone now!
This Typhoon class sub was runinning the Soviet Union budget, the smartest thing to do if you are a country or block with a smaller economy is to spend money wisely and not build expensive weapons.
Hence the Reagan policies. Out spend them and make the enemy outspend themselves. Then the collapse is from within and you don’t need to fire a shot. We, the USA, f’d up the aftermath but it still worked.
I subscribe to the whole family of channels and I am so impressed at the production quality the audio the editing and the prolific rate of production I'm very curious about the nature of your team your topic selection your research process you guys lay as a great example to a new Uber trying to make a mark with very little resources thank you for the hard work.
@@shize9ine It's interesting that you mention that even as a new content creator I already feel some of those pressures and notice the quality of my very low editing value is at risk sometimes in the rush to get something posted the viewers deserve a quality product with an interesting perspective
@@yetiatlarge555 It takes time to build a channel up, and it's easy to let the numbers/data run you ragged... I've noticed some things, too... BUT usually (since I understand with the algorithms and all) I let dubious details slide... Specifically, if you go back to the "Brown Water Navy" video about the PRB's in Nam, he mentions the second gen' being 1 foot longer, but then rattles off dimensions of 12 feet long, 11 and a half feet at the beam (indicating WIDTH)... so even without being an expert on nautical terms, since "draft" is about how much water is required to float... By context you can tell "at the beam" indicated how wide the boat was... AND then look at the video, and there's NO WAY that boat is 12 feet by 11.5 feet... It would be SQUARE or very close and a ridiculous looking thing... SO obviously THAT was a typo' that slipped past editing and proofs, even the narrator raced through it and never noticed a discrepancy... At first, hell... I wasn't even sure I heard it right, until I got down in the comments and I had to go back and listen to that bit a couple more times (laughing pretty hard at the mental imagery)... NOTHING against the guy(s) or team behind these channels... I DO get it. I try generally to look past the "little stuff"... AND only occasionally enjoy a good chuckle when enunciation or a terminology gets crossed up, or even dimensional quotes are HOPELESSLY skewed out of proportions... I usually either know what he MEANT to say or can tell roughly what should've been there, and most of the time, it's relatively harmless... What's important as you go is that you steadily work to improve... Build UP not backwards... Folks will notice once in a while and when it's particularly funny, we're liable to take the piss out of you, BUT even when it IS like 10,000 assholes are calling you out for something silly, TRY to laugh about it. It's a GOOF... Figure out where it got goofed, and there might be a lesson in there to improve, and after that, DO NOT shoulder the herculean task of trying to apologize or rectify for EVERYBODY... Let them have their fun... They'll get tired of it and move on, eventually. AND remember, if you start bitching at the internet and tell them NOT to do something, that's EXACTLY what they're suddenly going to do and find absolutely fascinating... People tend to be assholes like that... The more you dedicate to "damage control" the less control you'll tend to have over the damage... A few words acknowledging (occasionally) "Yeah, guys... what can I say... I goofed." and maybe the odd re-post if it's "really bad"... AND that's it. Don't let the algorithms chain you down and make you "rush" a project. It's great to hold yourself accountable, but I've always appreciated a better QUALITY product than a cheaper and quicker product... AND I (for one) tend to keep coming back for that. ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Thank you I appreciate your comments you have an incredible attention to detail. I liked that you focus on the big picture and still enjoy the content regardless of small imperfections .
All that money that Russia spent building these submarines but pay their sailors next to nothing. Seamen get 5,000 rubles a month which is $82/month Chief Petty officers get 7,500 rubles a month which is the equivalent of $114/month Midshipmen get between 8,000 and 8,500 rubles a month which is the equivalent of $132/month. It's no wonder that the military is starting to have issues with manpower. No one is willing to risk their lives for next to nothing. And I'm sure the whole deal of how the Kursk was handled and the lies the higher ranking officers told the public and their superiors doesn't help either
Could you imagine if the Typhoon subs had been retrofitted to carry multiple smaller modern missiles instead? It might have been the most on a single class ever constructed...
your information on the number of warheads that can be carried by a Trident is incorrect. Treaty limitations require that no more than 8 warheads per missile be carried. START treaty inspections allow for this to be demonstrated without divulging how many are actually there. So, 24*8=192 maximum, not something like 100 as you state.
As a born American citizen, it never fails to amaze me the Provincialism that occurs in some people. As if ONLY America has the most Brilliant Engineering minds on the planet. Wake up and smell the Coffee. By the way, America LOST two Fast Attack Nuclear Subs. One because of Faulty Welding and the other due to a Faulty Torpedo. A submarine travels in an Inhospitable Environment. Those who serve in The Silent Service are to be commended at all times from NO matter what country they serve. Try NOT to forget this.@@shonseibert48
This guy's diction is hard to listen to for more than a few minutes. I expect him to faint any second from auto-induced anxiety. I abandoned ship at 5 minutes to preserve my sanity.
There is only one operational typhoon, and its in horrble maintained condition. However the immense amount of nuclear missiles it carries keeps it pressed into service, but for how much longer ? We all have learned that Russian military equipment has been rusting & rotting for decades.
I read somewhere that it’s very slow turning and very slow diving being so big.it’s a joke that will be very easy to find because it’s noisy and clumsy
I'd actually like to see one about the Sumner class Laffey that survived the huge kamikaze attack. DD-724. Or maybe about both ships in the same video. Also, for the curious, Laffey DD-724 is now a museum ship in Charleston, SC. Parked right next to the 2nd USS Yorktown.
Compared to more conventional subs, the magnetic anomaly (MAD) signature of this vessel has to be seen to be believed! You just can't hide this vessel with any degree of certainty!
@@anydaynow01 Oh! Yes!..... it's not the composition of the sub that is detected, it's the interruption to the earth's magnetic field that's detected... as for sound, that varies greatly with depth and salinity levels...
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They should keep the last typhon for a museum piece .. I’d love to walk through that beast
Turning any nuclear powered ship into a museum is dicey at best. There would be a LOT of radioactive materials in the engine room that would be VERY expensive to remove before you'd ever let people near it. As the USN starts retiring the Nimitz class CVN's in the coming decades no one's really counting on any of them being preserved.
@@tancar2004 Nope, true there are areas that have a higher background than others but there are sailors working next to those areas during five to six hour shifts multiple times a day with no effects. I doubt a tour group spending five minutes at most in those areas will get any more than what they would get from the flight over to see the museum. As far as the reactor compartments they will be defueled and most of the hot spots will have decayed or been taken care of with the crud bursts and clean ups during the final shutdowns and cooldowns by the time the ship is ready for a museum. I mean they have tours through Pripyat and Chernobyl, I'm sure they could get at least one of these fit for museum work.
@@tancar2004 yes you arecorrect …but imagine viewing such a colossal piece of history
Yeah I would love to see one in person.
Russia can't even keep its own aircraft Carrier the only one it has in well operating condition I doubt they would turn the behemoth into a museum but it you're right it would be cool
I retired in 1991 and my last deployment was specifically to look for the new Typhoon. I don't know why people say they are noisy. We never saw it once it submerged. Eighty-nine days of wandering around listening to fish farts and whale grunts.
Any contact with a Russian sub is TOP SECRET...you might not have known about it.
Typically 1 person will say it's noisey and that fact gets parroted around endlessly and before long it becomes a "public fact". Doesn't help that people often compared old tech to modern tech rather than comparing apples to apples and talking about how detectable it was at the time or during its mission (like sailing under the arctic).
I don't really know enough about the Typhoon to argue facts with most people but subs are poorly understood in general. I've heard some people bring up those sneaky Scandinavian diesel subs that "sunk" an aircraft carrier in a war game, often saying what they could do against the US in the open ocean without bringing up their insanely short range and slow speed
He-he. I retired from Typhoon in 1989 after 103 days on patrol. As we were told (and it was confirmed later by Americans) the main source of noise was from secondary pumps.
I know absolutely nothing about submarines but logic tells me that you not finding them could also just mean that you were not near any.
So here's what I heard from Aaron Amick (former 688 sonarman who tracked down Typhoon during his career): if you see a blank spot with no ambient noise, that's your Typhoon
My Dad was at the Naval War College in the early 80's. They tracked one for 3 months. It never ventured out of Soviet waters. Always under Soviet air cover.
maybe that's the one they wanted him to see :)
So glossed over the under ice capabilities, the whole reason why Typhoon ICBM had greater range is because they needed it due to needing to travel over the poles to reach their targets. Additionally, the Typhoon CANNOT launch their ICBM submerged like the Ohio. As such, the sub had to be massive enough be able to break through ice in order to launch. Fun Fact: If the ice is too thick, the sail can break through, but the crew will have to use steam hoses to melt the ice to allow launch of ICBM. So in the case of a Russian launch, it takes considerable time and effort to complete the launch. This is its liability as the Typhoon is NOISY and almost always followed by a U.S attack submarine. If a Typhoon tried to launch its ICMBs, it would be destroyed before they even completed their surfacing activity. The Typhoon like most Russia equipment is Paper effective but in real world would be destroyed if actually tried to be used.
“Over the poles”? Phew they are good.
Thanks for the info! This is just ridiculous, bigger is not necessarily better. Image the magnetic signature
you can almost imagine seeing it bending the lines of flux. Also, the amount of water displaced must be similar to a mini tsunami.
The engineer who dreamed this up must look like one of those "James Bond" evil scientist characters.
Very true, but correct me if I'm worng (I'm no expert) didnt most typhoon have an SSN escort like a Victor 3 or an akula when they were on deployment? I know a 688 was more than capable of dealing with them but lunching weapons is noisy and takes time?
The Trident 2 has a 8000 km range with 6 warheads.
How much range do you need? It can take Moscow out from the coast if Iceland.
@@Crashed131963 Then again with the Arctic opened up due to global warming and give them a ring right up to their doorstep.
I cant think of a Typhoon sub without thinking of The Hunt for Red October.
Kursk
Don't forget the Red October in the movie was almost twice as small as this sub.
"Well, there are those who believe that we should attack the United States first. Settle everything in one moment. Red October was built for that purpose.”
-Marko Ramius
One scenario was to loiter beneath the seas and ice post Armageddon to outlast the western subs then launch and destroy anything the west had left. This was one reason they could stay submerged so long.
Well, it was a good thing Ramius was pissed at the politburo and the system in general, lol...
That was the film which inspired me to become a submariner. USS Georgia SSBN 729 1990-2000
If you have the chance you should also read the book. It had some much more detail and story and will rekindle your love for submarines
Served on one of those. Did many secret missions approached US coast. We were never spotted. This project was a big success. It was regarded as a secret. Our west partners have no clue about this type of submarine. Very little information about and most of them are misleading. I can guarantee you this was one of the most quiet sun ever made at the time. Propeller improvement was a big success. It could change the angles depending on the sea density.
Current black hole (the quietest Russian sub)was developed using this revolutionary system.
During my service we would approach US subs and whey will not even notice us….That was a special feeling of accomplishment. They would try to chase us but without much success. From Russia with Love. Sergei!
Not my dumb ass thinking that the Russian should convert the typhoons into a luxury cruise submarine 😅😅😅
This thing really was the real life Alicorn from Ace Combat 7. It was huge, nuclear capable, and insane endurance.
Another reason for their size was the requirement for reserve buoyancy to be able to break through some of the thicker ice sections and launch their weapons from around the Pole. It creates a shorter warning time for the target to respond as well as allows the ship to retreat under the ice for relative safety.
(Not to nitpick but submarines are referred to as 'boats'.)
@@nommadd5758 not that you’re nitpicking.
joke's on them, soon there will be no polar ice cap
@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst OK GRETA NOW GO BACK TO BED , IS SCHOOL DAY TOMORROW
@@JamesSmith-ui2hv cope moar
I was able to board the Russian Scorpion sub docked (and now sinking due to neglect) next to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. She has her own history in WW2. It was claustrophobic and hard to imagine being in with your life on the line.
You left out the part about them being so noisy that the USN could track them across the entire Atlantic Ocean, meaning that in wartime they'd have needed a miracle to survive 120 hours, let alone 120 days. A Los Angeles class could probably have zeroed in on one just by the sound of the water sloshing around in it's swimming pool.
You don't get the truth from this guy . Nothing but bullshit !!
Actually, it has been declassified, that during the cold ware, U.S. had Los Angeles class submarines following the Typhoon as soon as they left port. So in the case of nuclear war, they would have never been able to launch their ICBM because they have to surface to launch and that time is all that is needed to kill them. Especially if they had to break through ice and clear ice from decks.
@@grast5150 they havent suface launched since the 60s lol dont know how told u that bs.
Lol, awesome
@@mikecyanide7492 haven't ACTUALLY surface launched, or it hasn't been necessary to surface to launch their missiles? Because from what I've heard, only the US has the technology to launch while submerged, it's not an easy task.
You have to remember this is a Russian submarine. A big submarine. And the Russian aren't the best at maintaining anything much less than one of the most complicated gadgets ever built.
Actually is the opposite. The Russians are masters of maintenance while the USA has less maintenance and reliability management strategies for its inventory: this is not design failure: the ordering of new mil. equipment provides a vast impetus for the economy. The soviet and later the Russian economy had to deal with fewer resources as well as planned economy features of supply resulting for the surplus inventory to become quickly obsolete or scavenged for components. I remember myself in the early 90s such a surplus was even donated to Western Allies in fine condition. P.S. In the NATO manual of mil. capabilities of Russia (92? 93?) there is even a chapter on Russian maintenance where they are praised.
@@christopherneufelt8971 how have Russians mastered maintenance when they can’t even provide vehicles that don’t have rotten rubber tires? Their maintenance seems very, very poor compared to the US
That's why we depended on them to get us to the ISI for a few years.....
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Looks at the Kuznetsov whose main propulsion is tug boats was the chapter praising Russian maintenance praising their tug boat availability?
@@Kakarot64. Hi Kakarot. Tug boats are used in case of failure of engines or guidance to shallow ports or guidance to repair-shipyards (maneuvering in small installations). These submarines were huge compared to reparation-installations.
the typhoon is basically two submarines put together with a superstructure. The ICMB are housed in free flood areas because the Soviets did not trust their own crews. the typhone has a TON of waisted space that makes a majority of its dry mass.
"did not trust their own crews". And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner of stupid comment contest.
In late 80s only 6 submarines out of 200+ in Soviet Navy had missiles in flooded area. The main reason for this was simple: first Soviet solid fuel ICBMS were too huge and heavy to fit inside. Additionally it greatly reduced vulnerability of the ship if something went wrong - like in 1991 when test missile on Tk-17 blew up inside the tube during launch they simply dived to quench the fire. No damage to the ship, no damage to other tubes.
@@sasasasa-lx6cl 👏🏾
@@sasasasa-lx6cl apart from the burned skin and severely damaged launch tube, including the tube door being blown off, I doubt this was the only damage. Diving wouldn't quench a solid rocket motor as the fuel and oxidizer are mixed together and once ignited its burning till its done underwater or not. It would have aided in dissipating the heat though and would have saved the sub.
@@JK-zx3go After all, solid rocket motors can still burn in space after all.
@@sasasasa-lx6cl I don't understand why Soviet solid fuel ICBM's (I assume you meant SLBM's?) were too huge to fit in their submarine launch tubes while those of NATO countries were not? After all the majority of the solid fuel SLBM's use ammonium perchlorate with crosslinked polybutadiene composite, a fairly easy fuel to produce and one without much variation in impulse output. Any idea how come the Soviets had problems with that?
I am feeling sad for a submarine and a Soviet one at that!! Your work takes me to some places!! They were imposing and I found them beautiful as in art. Strange because that is the last thing they are.
Terrific video, loved it and for reasons that surprised me.
Bob
England
The biggest weakness of these submarines is running while surfaced. Unlike any other submarines, a portion of the twin propellers of the typhoon submarines stick out when running surfaced. The propellers generate a very unique and loud noise signature. This makes identifying and tracking surfaced typhoon submarines very easy even over extremely long distances.
Yep, the Typhoon subs were massive and they were built to carry a huge arsenal of Intercontinental Missiles. They were not designed to transverse the oceans, but to lay in stealth beneath the Artic ice waiting for the order to launch. Although they might be old now there is apparently a few Typhoons left and on active duty, and the rest was dismantled years ago.
Only a single Typhoon remains, and if I recall correctly it isn't even used for active duty but rather for missile and other tests.
@@pieterveenders9793 There are plans to refit it with new Sarmat 200 ton ICBMs and send it into service. Its the only nuclear sub that can carry around 20 Sarmats. The Borei class only carries like 2 Sarmats at most if at all it can. So in the near future the only existing Typhoon will go back into service but with Sarmats this time.
@@boikanyoonneng9170 "There are plans to....." do all sorts of things in Russia but they never happen as they dont have the cash, the skilled people, resources or technology.
It's sad, Humanity is unlikely to ever build such a huge, powerful, menacing submarine again. The amount of titanium used in those things is unimaginable.
It's sad that humanity will never waste so much titanium and other resources building such massive weapons of war again? Or it's sad that we did it before?
The new Russian Belgorod submarine is longer.
Well it will be interesting to see if a submarine drone carrier will ever be made I'd imagine that would be another behemoth! But yeah, that was nuts when I heard about that, just welding Ti is very difficult compared to even stainless steel, and then to make a whole boat out of it. Even though Russia has essentially the world's supply of the stuff hopefully a lot of it can be recycled into future projects; and before anyone says it, no, just because it had a nuclear propulsion system doesn't mean the whole thing is a giant pile of glowing green goo, just the some of actual reactor components and primary coolant piping would need to be removed and put in a sarcophagus.
@@ats-3693 use the titanium for the supersonic war planes right?🇺🇸
Its sad that, in your opinion, mankind will ever build such a large-scale killing machine again...?
One thing I’ll give the soviets is that they built some sexy ass subs back in the day.
they still do
"too Big to Hide" - Polar Ice say "hold my beer ! "
I hope they put the last typhoon as a museum ship
Use the entire ship as a museum? Yeah, they could fit just about everything possible in it.
@@ryanjones7681 the ship is the museum and if you looked it up instead making yourself look dumb then you would know any decommissioned vessel can be scrapped or saved as a museum ship
@@Tbs93 Russia will not be able to afford it, they will just park it and let it rot away will all the other crap.
@@lw7238 Does titanium oxidize in a salt water environment though? Just one of those folks too busy and frankly lazy to look things up so I can trigger basement dwellers.
@@anydaynow01 What's the problem dumb dumb, did you figure it out yet? That you are the one that was too lazy to look it up.
It's sad to know there are no more of these amazing craft plying the deeps. Even if - as an American - it's the very craft that may have been the death of ne in any city nuclear war!
It's just beautiful badassery in engineering in action.
Just not 💥THAT💥 kind of action. Thank god! 🙏
My first deployment we did 98 days straight. We came back to port eating crackers and peanut butter. That was a long time with out sun for sure. Jim
You didn't mention the Red October. Capt Sean Connery was her captain, and now lives in the USA somewhere🙂
Montana actually...
@@tsarbomba1 no. That was his XO, who wanted to have a pickup and a recreational vehicle as well as 2 wives in Montana.
Maryland, I believe. Near a sub base, anyway. He sorta taught them soviet tactics, if I remember correctly.
Didn't Ramius die? Or am I confusing him with the Cardinal....
@@keatohenko Amazingly he made it, even though it looks like he died in the movie. Three years later he was a fully qualified paleontologist in Montana, living in a recreational vehicle. Didn't have two wives, though. Shame he couldn't hold onto Ellie.
Subs to dinosaurs. Quite a leap in careers...
@@keatohenko na. He wanted one wife in Montana and another in Arizona. Who knew he wanted to be an over the road trucker?
No mention of "Hunt For Red October"?
I don't know if it's still the case but many submarine crews of various nations in WWII would carry pet mascots on board with them. USS Skate (SS-305) had a chicken for a mascot. WWI submarine O-3 (SS-64) had a goat on board.
Imagine the typhoons had a bear on board
At one time the HMS Hood had a wallaby as a mascot. Apparently it didn't do real well in the cold though.
Every submarine had a goat locker.
Just watched a sub movie (1933) about WWI subs, and the mascot was a cat.
@@DaFinkingOrk. In your comment, could you replace a bear with an elephant or giraffe? Just to make it more realistic...
The hunt for red October sea-going mock-up was a good representation of this class of sub.
Never call a submarine a "ship"...it's a sub or a boat, but not a ship!
It's funny, it's both relieving and a bit sad it's being decommissioned. The new ones sound just as scary, but what an interesting piece of engineering these ships were.
Now I want to watch "The Hunt For Red October" again.
Putting a swimming pool in a submarine really tickled me.
Ah, the star of one of my favorite Clancy books... Maybe it's time to reread the Clancy canon. 😁
6:25, how the hell do multiple pressure hulls simplify internal design..?
When you look at Soviet equipment that was in use or on the drawing board in the 1980s (i.e. Typhoon SSBNs, Kirov BCGNs, Sovremennyy and Udaloy DDGs, MiG-29s, Su-33s, Yak-141s, Tu-160s, etc., etc.) and the vast size of the Soviet military at that time, then look at what's going on in Ukraine, it makes you realize that Russia is but a dim echo of the old USSR.
All you say is likely true HOWEVER I'm sure you realize that there a full blown proxy war with US giving Ukraine some of the most advanced weaponry. The US will fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian.
@@nomaam-br549
Not so in the first week. The Ukrainians were unprepared and had not yet received any of the massive amount of money and weaponry from the West yet. A Russian combined arms thunder run to the capital of Kiev ground to a halt under its own weight due to equipment breakdowns and lack of logistical support capability. As inefficient as the USSR was, they could at least road march a field army 75 miles without the entire operation breaking down for multiple days.
what if we look what happened in afghanistan recently..??
@@christineshotton824 western weapons are so unreliable and ukraine is constantly complaining of how they constanty need maintance unlike the soviet actually russian made weapons which ukraine inherited after the collapse of ussr
@@briant5685
I get it. You're a Russian troll attempting to divert attention away from Russia's failures in Ukraine.
"Fly Big D Fly!" quoting the Hunt for Red October. Lol
2:32 Back to the Typhoon class submarines.
Love your narration voice. 👍🏽 Do you do voice overs???
As I understand it the Typhoon when deployed moved below the Arctic icecap and settled to the bottom and did not move. The crew accommodations were designed for long underwater duration.
Nuclear subs can't settle on the bottom since their cooling intake is on the bottom. So I'm assuming you think they settled low to the bottom but not at the bottom. This is common knowledge btw.
Finally, a sub that can fit American soldiers.
You should do the Alpha class sometime. A design based on the 661 Class and also the subject of an infamous CIA operation.
Project Azorian?
@@Captain_Tumbleweed no Project Sapphire. Short version is the CIA stole reactor material from a manufacturing plant in Kazakhstan to keep from being used in the early 90s.
@@josephotoole9088 Hadn't heard about that one :)
Im almost positive he has.
@@atankersview I'll look thanks.
So many armchair submarine analysts here. They know for a fact this sub is soooooo noisy. Then you have an actual US submariner who says this baby was hard to track or they failed to tract it. It's really comical to see the armchair analysts. 😂
Christopher, that said they're are various portals in the Arctic that provide access to a Russian submarine, where in fact the ice DOES NOT freeze due to volcanic activity. Antarctica doesn't have a pole, to sail under these are seaway inaccessible, it's a continent!
Everytime I flew ASW missions I was hoping that we'd find a Typhoon - even though I knew the chance of that happening was non existent for the most part.
5yrs flying in P-3s myself!
Stopped at 1:00. I’m paying TH-cam premium so I don’t have to watch ads. I shall no longer watch your channel(s) again. Great intro!
Just keep spamming the skip 5second feature on mobile or keep pressing the forward arrow key on desktop to skip a few seconds till the ad is over. Most channels even label their videos with chapter and you can see which one is the AD and skip it. TH-cam Premium makes it so TH-cam won’t serve you any ADs but channels still have to run ads to stay afloat because the money they get from ADSENSE is pitifully little. Content costs money to make so just skip the video’s built in AD and stop being such a little b.aby about it… People Pay for TV and there are still commercials, so it’s not like this is new. Just skip the ADs
Who else here got their introduction to the Typhoon with The Hunt for Red October?
I watched the Premiere back in the eighties, was a kid by then.
@@LeopardIL2 wow, must have been nice. I saw it a few years after it was released, around 92 or 92. Loved it so much I bought it on DVD when it became available a few years later. Made me look for all Tom Clancy's books. Didn't stop till I read all the original Jack Ryan novels.
That was the case for me, I am not sure how old I was when I saw the movie for the first time but the movie came out when I was roughly 10
When I saw it i loved it so much I bought it on DVD as well, another great classic is K19 The Widow Maker.
U571 was garbage.
@@googlreviews7813 Must say I havent seen K19, but I do have Red October and Crimson Tide on dvd. As well as all the old Jack Ryan movies. I agree U571 was horrible.
@@kvinteractive8981 Eh eh I bet you have doing some good reads. There are some good books related Blind Man's Bluff, The Red Star Rouge, and Scorpion, sank by the Soviets buried by the Pentagon. Happy readings!
I heard that "some things don't react well with bullets" in those subs
Beware with what you shoot.
"Welcome to the new world sir"
Jack Ryan
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Good documentary
If I were forced to man a submarine, if I could choose any, it would be a Typhoon.
A swimming pool on a sub... I'd say that's a little..... excessive? Tho I could get right behind there being a sauna in my home, lol.
Well, I've been a crewmember on three. Two were Trident submarines....much superior to the typhoons. Tridents have lasted 40+ years and are still in service. Typhoons lasted 8 years...all gone now!
"some things in here dont react too well to bullets"
^.^
This Typhoon class sub was runinning the Soviet Union budget, the smartest thing to do if you are a country or block with a smaller economy is to spend money wisely and not build expensive weapons.
Hence the Reagan policies. Out spend them and make the enemy outspend themselves. Then the collapse is from within and you don’t need to fire a shot. We, the USA, f’d up the aftermath but it still worked.
what ruined the Soviet Union was socialism...simple as
I subscribe to the whole family of channels and I am so impressed at the production quality the audio the editing and the prolific rate of production I'm very curious about the nature of your team your topic selection your research process you guys lay as a great example to a new Uber trying to make a mark with very little resources thank you for the hard work.
a behind the scenes would be awesome
If you watch enough you will start noticing the quantity over quality approach taking hold.
@@shize9ine It's interesting that you mention that even as a new content creator I already feel some of those pressures and notice the quality of my very low editing value is at risk sometimes in the rush to get something posted the viewers deserve a quality product with an interesting perspective
@@yetiatlarge555 It takes time to build a channel up, and it's easy to let the numbers/data run you ragged... I've noticed some things, too... BUT usually (since I understand with the algorithms and all) I let dubious details slide...
Specifically, if you go back to the "Brown Water Navy" video about the PRB's in Nam, he mentions the second gen' being 1 foot longer, but then rattles off dimensions of 12 feet long, 11 and a half feet at the beam (indicating WIDTH)... so even without being an expert on nautical terms, since "draft" is about how much water is required to float... By context you can tell "at the beam" indicated how wide the boat was... AND then look at the video, and there's NO WAY that boat is 12 feet by 11.5 feet... It would be SQUARE or very close and a ridiculous looking thing...
SO obviously THAT was a typo' that slipped past editing and proofs, even the narrator raced through it and never noticed a discrepancy... At first, hell... I wasn't even sure I heard it right, until I got down in the comments and I had to go back and listen to that bit a couple more times (laughing pretty hard at the mental imagery)...
NOTHING against the guy(s) or team behind these channels... I DO get it. I try generally to look past the "little stuff"... AND only occasionally enjoy a good chuckle when enunciation or a terminology gets crossed up, or even dimensional quotes are HOPELESSLY skewed out of proportions... I usually either know what he MEANT to say or can tell roughly what should've been there, and most of the time, it's relatively harmless...
What's important as you go is that you steadily work to improve... Build UP not backwards... Folks will notice once in a while and when it's particularly funny, we're liable to take the piss out of you, BUT even when it IS like 10,000 assholes are calling you out for something silly, TRY to laugh about it. It's a GOOF... Figure out where it got goofed, and there might be a lesson in there to improve, and after that, DO NOT shoulder the herculean task of trying to apologize or rectify for EVERYBODY... Let them have their fun... They'll get tired of it and move on, eventually.
AND remember, if you start bitching at the internet and tell them NOT to do something, that's EXACTLY what they're suddenly going to do and find absolutely fascinating... People tend to be assholes like that... The more you dedicate to "damage control" the less control you'll tend to have over the damage... A few words acknowledging (occasionally) "Yeah, guys... what can I say... I goofed." and maybe the odd re-post if it's "really bad"... AND that's it.
Don't let the algorithms chain you down and make you "rush" a project. It's great to hold yourself accountable, but I've always appreciated a better QUALITY product than a cheaper and quicker product... AND I (for one) tend to keep coming back for that. ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Thank you I appreciate your comments you have an incredible attention to detail. I liked that you focus on the big picture and still enjoy the content regardless of small imperfections .
I really enjoy and eagerly await any and all content on this channel.
All that money that Russia spent building these submarines but pay their sailors next to nothing.
Seamen get 5,000 rubles a month which is $82/month
Chief Petty officers get 7,500 rubles a month which is the equivalent of $114/month
Midshipmen get between 8,000 and 8,500 rubles a month which is the equivalent of $132/month.
It's no wonder that the military is starting to have issues with manpower. No one is willing to risk their lives for next to nothing. And I'm sure the whole deal of how the Kursk was handled and the lies the higher ranking officers told the public and their superiors doesn't help either
Could you imagine if the Typhoon subs had been retrofitted to carry multiple smaller modern missiles instead? It might have been the most on a single class ever constructed...
that submarine thicc as hell
Very big fish ......👍👍😎😎
your information on the number of warheads that can be carried by a Trident is incorrect. Treaty limitations require that no more than 8 warheads per missile be carried. START treaty inspections allow for this to be demonstrated without divulging how many are actually there. So, 24*8=192 maximum, not something like 100 as you state.
I can still remember seeing this coming over the horizon in the Barents Sea. Gosh but it was big.
You forgot its most impressive feature. Each Typhoon came with a free Los Angeles attack sub 😁
Or two!
🤣🤣 that's why Kursk is scrap at bottom. How many LA subs blew up
As a born American citizen, it never fails to amaze me the Provincialism that occurs in some people. As if ONLY America has the most Brilliant Engineering minds on the planet. Wake up and smell the Coffee. By the way, America LOST two Fast Attack Nuclear Subs. One because of Faulty Welding and the other due to a Faulty Torpedo. A submarine travels in an Inhospitable Environment. Those who serve in The Silent Service are to be commended at all times from NO matter what country they serve. Try NOT to forget this.@@shonseibert48
This guy's diction is hard to listen to for more than a few minutes. I expect him to faint any second from auto-induced anxiety. I abandoned ship at 5 minutes to preserve my sanity.
Russians build a ship and then, as an afterthought, think about how to accommodate the crew.
I've heard that the Red October had Caterpillar drive, but that's Top Secret
Which only works until the caterpillars drown.
There is only one operational typhoon, and its in horrble maintained condition. However the immense amount of nuclear missiles it carries keeps it pressed into service, but for how much longer ? We all have learned that Russian military equipment has been rusting & rotting for decades.
Oh no it’s time for a meme: In terms of sponsors we have RAID: Shadow Legends. 😂
I read somewhere that it’s very slow turning and very slow diving being so big.it’s a joke that will be very easy to find because it’s noisy and clumsy
I guess that Caterpillar Drive is still top Secret
a ballistic submarine? bassitic missle submarine? ballistic special military diving pipe? da komrad.
400 meter depth? I think it goes way deeper than that.
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I’m sorry but it’s hilarious hearing his voice commentate a raid shadow legends video
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It is too serious lol, Maybe it will be their best ad campaign just because of his voice lol.
Can you do a video about Laffy(Benson class destroyer)
I'd actually like to see one about the Sumner class Laffey that survived the huge kamikaze attack. DD-724. Or maybe about both ships in the same video.
Also, for the curious, Laffey DD-724 is now a museum ship in Charleston, SC. Parked right next to the 2nd USS Yorktown.
@@chriss2777 however the Benson Laffy did a point blank broadside with a Japanese battleship
@@theelectricgamer9889 yeah. Both ships named Laffey had quite a story. Wouldn't mind the Dark Seas video to be about both in the same video.
Bigger is not better in the case of submarines
this had over 200 nuclear warheads,a single of this sub was more than enough to obliterate any adversary
They should of made one into museum I love video of the typhoon subs
Correction, in 1971 the Soviet Union launched the Akula program. Typhoon is purely NATO designation.
Bloody MADness! 🐨🇦🇺
The real reason it can still hide is how huge the oceans really are!!!!!
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Cool story Hansel
Stop shaming the submarine she is just big hulled
one ping....one ping only...
Compared to more conventional subs, the magnetic anomaly (MAD) signature of this vessel has to be seen to be believed! You just can't hide this vessel with any degree of certainty!
With it being made of titanium would it still have a large signature? Like I don't know, genuine question.
@@anydaynow01
Oh! Yes!..... it's not the composition of the sub that is detected, it's the interruption to the earth's magnetic field that's detected... as for sound, that varies greatly with depth and salinity levels...
@@KIA-MIA-POW And being a boomer it was designed to be quiet, look at all those anechoic tiles on it...
@@BlackHearthguard ....but the design proved not to be effective as any Ohio sonar operator will attest...
I pay for TH-cam Premium. I don't want to see 5 minutes of ads when I pay to not see them
Impressive sub, a little scary.
Don't forget the Russians have had a atomic Doomsday Machine for many decades .
So much for the technically advanced American submarines etc.
Russia should make fewer of these kind of things and fix up their country and their relationship with the world.
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The size of the wave coming off the front of that big ol' bish made me bust out laughing in a silent library.... Worth it
Great video as usual! Have you done a video on the Halifax explosion? Just a thought.
A submarine is a boat, not a ship
The Typhoon class is what inspired Hollywood's "The Hunt for Red October."
Wrong....Tom Clancy wrote the book long before it became a movie
No, look up the Global Explorer....that incident is what inspired the movie.
Very impressive. But did it have more coffee cup holders then the Americans for their Starbucks coffee.
The typhoon shouldn't get scraped they should stay and be a Museum for the Soviet Era greatest Military weapon
Hard to believe they built 1 let alone 6.
It's too bad everyone spends so much on weapons and not enough on improving standard of living. But it's a necessary evil.
Oh my god.
A dude with a great name and a great point?
Between all the misinformation, literaly bots ad Einsteins with extremely one-sided points?
And with a balanced opinion, which is not idealistic dreaming etc. on either of the possible sides, that acknowledges the reality of the situation.
What a pleasant surprise.
xoxo
slap a runway on it and it doubles as carrier.
I’ve seen the plans for this class and there was a sauna and what looked like a hot tub but I never saw an actual swimming pool.
maybe they conflated the hot tub for the pool?
It looks like the footage of the submarine at 5:38 is a Delta class submarine not a typhoon.
Looks about right a lot of his videos have inaccuracies