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Coming back to my earlier tweet showing the Project 667BDRM Delfin/Delta IV-class Tula (K-114) transiting on the surface with all 16 missile hatches open --> note the difference in the 4 aftmost hatches no. 13-16.
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RT @Saturnax1: #SubWednesday #Submarines #ColdWar #Naval #Engineering
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Coming back to my earlier tweet showing the Project 667BDRM Delfin/Delta IV-class Tula (K-114) transiting on the surface with all 16 missile hatches open --> note the difference in the 4 aftmost hatches no. 13-16.
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RT @Saturnax1: #SubSaturday #Submarines #ColdWar @USNavy
Sturgeon-class USS Drum (SSN-677) conducting "Coastal Reconnaissance" at the "outer perimeter of the Free World" during WESTPAC 1973.
Photo courtesy of Rick Wetmore who served on Drum 1970-75, patch courtesy of Capt. (ret) Dave Stanley.
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Sturgeon-class USS Drum (SSN-677) conducting "Coastal Reconnaissance" at the "outer perimeter of the Free World" during WESTPAC 1973.
Photo courtesy of Rick Wetmore who served on Drum 1970-75, patch courtesy of Capt. (ret) Dave Stanley.
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RT @USN_Submariner: #FlashbackFriday #OTD in 1989: USS Tennessee (SSBN 734) successfully launches her 6th Trident II D5 SLBM with a large audience, including Soviet intelligence collector SSV-169.
#USNavy #SilentService #ColdWar
RT @USN_Submariner: #FlashbackFriday #OTD in 1989: USS Tennessee (SSBN 734) successfully launches her 6th Trident II D5 SLBM with a large audience, including Soviet intelligence collector SSV-169.
#USNavy #SilentService #ColdWar
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RT @USN_Submariner: USS Parche (SSN-683), the most decorated #USNavy submarine in history, was launched at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, MS #OTD in 1973.
#SubSaturday #ColdWar #SilentService
RT @USN_Submariner: USS Parche (SSN-683), the most decorated #USNavy submarine in history, was launched at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, MS #OTD in 1973.
#SubSaturday #ColdWar #SilentService
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RT @USN_Submariner: #OTD in 1962, the keel was laid for first-in-class USS James Madison (SSBN-627).
As the boomer left Holy Loch in Nov 1974, she collided with a Soviet Victor-class submarine, luckily only resulting in minor damage. The incident was declassified in 2017. #SilentService #ColdWar
RT @USN_Submariner: #OTD in 1962, the keel was laid for first-in-class USS James Madison (SSBN-627).
As the boomer left Holy Loch in Nov 1974, she collided with a Soviet Victor-class submarine, luckily only resulting in minor damage. The incident was declassified in 2017. #SilentService #ColdWar
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RT @Saturnax1: #SubMonday #Submarines #ColdWar #History
#OTD in 1982, while on duty in the Barents Sea, the Soviet Navy's Northern Fleet Project 705K/Alfa-class interceptor SSN K-123 suffered a release of approx. 2 tonnes of a liquid metal coolant from the reactor into the reactor compartment, leading to a deterioration of the radiation situation.
As a result of the coolant loss she immediately lost the power, surfaced, the power plant was switched into a cooldown mode, power consumption was transferred to the battery & diesel generator, and the accident was reported to the HQ via radio. K-123 was towed to her home base by the rescue ship Altai.
The accident irreparably damaged the reactor so that it had to be replaced & it took nine years to finish the repairs. The cause of the accident was later defined as a clogging of the steam generator tubes with sludge & corrosion damage.
Photos by Anatoly Khramov, Altai officer, April 8, 1982.
Sources: Bellona & Deepstormru
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#OTD in 1982, while on duty in the Barents Sea, the Soviet Navy's Northern Fleet Project 705K/Alfa-class interceptor SSN K-123 suffered a release of approx. 2 tonnes of a liquid metal coolant from the reactor into the reactor compartment, leading to a deterioration of the radiation situation.
As a result of the coolant loss she immediately lost the power, surfaced, the power plant was switched into a cooldown mode, power consumption was transferred to the battery & diesel generator, and the accident was reported to the HQ via radio. K-123 was towed to her home base by the rescue ship Altai.
The accident irreparably damaged the reactor so that it had to be replaced & it took nine years to finish the repairs. The cause of the accident was later defined as a clogging of the steam generator tubes with sludge & corrosion damage.
Photos by Anatoly Khramov, Altai officer, April 8, 1982.
Sources: Bellona & Deepstormru
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RT @Saturnax1: #SubSaturday #Submarine #ColdWar #History
Soviet Navy's Northern Fleet Project 670 Skat/Charlie I-class SSGN K-320 surfacing at the North Pole in August 1979, during an under-ice trans-Arctic inter-naval transition to the Pacific Fleet.
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Soviet Navy's Northern Fleet Project 670 Skat/Charlie I-class SSGN K-320 surfacing at the North Pole in August 1979, during an under-ice trans-Arctic inter-naval transition to the Pacific Fleet.