Delta III SSBN Sub Brief

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  @grantchallinor5263 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Dmitry Koval, Service No. 5-98 (33) was the sailor/crew member who sadly lost his life in the 2004 accident on the Podolsk K-223. (I did some digging using Russian resources). <br><br>Dmitry apparently tried to warn the rest of the crew by shouting &quot;It&apos;s cracking!&quot; &nbsp;(or words to that effect - my Russian is far from perfect) as events rapidly unfolded. Dmitry&apos;s role on the Podolsk was &quot;матрос-электрик&quot; (the literal translation is &quot;sailor-electrician&quot;) - so he was probably an electrician&apos;s mate or whatever the correct rank is these days. <br><br>I know, in the case of such an unfortunate accident, Aaron normally likes to mention the crew member&apos;s name - particularly if the sailor concerned was trying to protect the rest of the crew or if any heroism/self-sacrifice was involved.<br><br>Bonus info: Podolsk is a small city about 15km south of the outskirts of Moscow. I&apos;ve passed through it a few times on my way to the Russian countryside to go mushroom-picking with some Russian friends....))

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• LI

  @LittleTomHermit · 4 years ago

  Know that your efforts are genuinely appreciated

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• MU

  @MultiEinsteinium · 4 years ago (edited)

  Hey Jive, I&apos;m fascinated by what you have said about the sound of lost, drifting trawler nets...any chance you can access one of those recordings (as I can&apos;t imagine they are classified - unless trawler tech counts as state secrets? XD ) and show us, like you did with other sonar captured sounds? Be good for Halloween!

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  @chrisdimis91 · 4 years ago

  This is the longest SubBrief Ever. This is amazing

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• GR

  @grantchallinor5263 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Rightly or wrongly, I always understood that the collision (in May 1981) involving the Russian K-211 and initially attributed to an un-named American submarine, later actually turned out to be a British Swiftsure class submarine (HMS Sceptre) with the crew ordered (at the time) to say the submarine was damaged after hitting ice - with the truth only emerging years later. It looks like the British boat ran into the stern of the K-211.

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• RI

  @richardpatton2502 · 4 years ago

  Can you imagine being on your little trawler and all of the sudden it gets swallowed by the sea!<br>Proper scary stuff

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• BL

  @blue2sco · 4 years ago

  Hatch Nine not open: OCD Intensifies

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• ZE

  @zed332l · 4 years ago

  Like the photo of the 7 bladed screws , &nbsp;Thanks to Walker&apos;s.

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• AA

  @Aaron_Nonymous · 4 years ago

  I&apos;m going to call them and ask them why they were trying to nuke my city when they&apos;ve never met me or been to my city.

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• JA

  @jasonburch1933 · 3 years ago

  This channel has grown on me quite a bit I must say.

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• LU

  @LuxorAB · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP7Cy87GD58&amp;t=2900">48:20</a> apart from military use, sometimes it&apos;s cheaper to launch sattelites from different points on the globe. And since ballistic missile submarine already basically a moving spaceport and already built - that&apos;s just logicall to try to utilise its capabilities in peacetime as much as possible. And crues definetly getting some useful expirience from launches

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  @richardbell7678 · 4 years ago

  Minor nit, but it is not a pressure problem that leads to not being able to open all of the hatches at the same time, but flow rate issues. &nbsp;If each hatch requires ten gallons of hydraulic oil to move the piston to fully open and there are eight hatches, the hatches will not all be fully open before the pump has moved eighty gallons of hydraulic oil. &nbsp;In the absence of any balancing system, the hatch with the least resistance opens first and the next lowest resistance hatch will start to open when the back pressure from the first hatch rises to the point that the pressure exceeds the resistance of the next hatch.<br><br>Having separate pumps for each missile hatch still presents the potential problem of not being able to power all of the pumps at the same time.

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