I joined CS. Thanks for a year of great advice and Camraderie fellow BOTLs/SOTLs!!
-W.
I joined CS. Thanks for a year of great advice and Camraderie fellow BOTLs/SOTLs!!
-W.
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Congrats brother!!!!!
"No one can tell me what is a good cigar -- for me. I am the only judge. There are no standards -- no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him."
~ Mark Twain
that's one more year without one of these ...
Originally Posted by Heftysmokes:
Maybe I should do a movie review on Apollo 13 and tell you all "that's as real as it gets" since I'm a fucking astronaut.
Congratulations, always good to see a great member join and stay with us!!!
Congrats on your anniversary!!
Thats an ugly boat, so I hope you never have one.....must be Russian as the missile deck is forward of the con.....US, and I believe British, boats have the missile deck aft of the con. Nobody wants a Russian sub....not even the Russians. They are referred to as targets since you can hear them a long way away. We never had much trouble hiding from them.
Congrats. Now smoke a good one.
{*insert snide remark here*}
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Congratulations Man Smoke something good Preferably a Sopranos Boss
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Way to go man!!
In spite of all evidence to the contrary, the entire universe is composed of only two basic substances: Magic and bullshit.
Thats no longer true, in the late 80's early 90's Mitsubishi sold the Russians welding technology that allowed them to become as stealthy at the NATO subs. Mitsubishi made a few million off the deal and was fined almos the same amount. The US spend around 120 million developing technology to counter the newly silent Russian subs.
It made a huge splash in welding engineering circles.
Thanks guys,
Its the great advice and crowd, as well as the fun that kept me here in the first place. I'm not sure about this chefchris guy though!
-W.
The Internet - All the Piracy, None of the Scurvy
Congrats and hope to see you here for many more years to come
yep, I would like to know as well. I wasn't a ping jockey, but I know that the main sources of detection of the Russians was power plant noise (steam through pipes, cooling structures for reactors, etc.) and cavitation caused by their propellers. I was on a boomer so we never, or very rarely, ever went active on the sonar and we avoided them easily by just listening.
And yeah, the Typhoon is the largest sub on earth....but you have to admit its still pretty ugly.
*** Apology to MONK for hi-jacking this thread***
Congrats on your anniversary!
Congrats Monk - it's been great to know you on the board.
Look at that... I plumb got myself 5 raisins and 7 termites.
[QUOTE=ashauler;76329]yep, I would like to know as well. I wasn't a ping jockey, but I know that the main sources of detection of the Russians was power plant noise (steam through pipes, cooling structures for reactors, etc.) and cavitation caused by their propellers. I was on a boomer so we never, or very rarely, ever went active on the sonar and we avoided them easily by just listening.
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From my materials prof named Fillisko, he'd give more tangents than lectures in class. I think this one was over vaccum welding equipment that allowed for smoother surfaces? I guess you can associate that with propeller cavitation... but you would have to think that it would be their newer generation of subs equipped with stuff learned inthe the early 90's.
If I recall, a cavitation vaccum needs surface defects to germinate and if you smooth out the surfaces in the sub-microscopic level you might be able to significantly reduce their formation.
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