Red October
Red October
I'm sure most people on this website have seen this film where actor Sean Connery plays Soviet sub commander Markus Remius, who uses his command, Red October, as a vehicle to defect to the US.
The Red October is depicted as having a ''caterpillar'' almost silent drive propulsion system - is this ''caterpilar'' now fact, or is it movie maker fiction?
The Red October is depicted as having a ''caterpillar'' almost silent drive propulsion system - is this ''caterpilar'' now fact, or is it movie maker fiction?
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No, it exists. It's a magneto hydrodynamics drive without any moving parts, actually built into a test vessel called Yamato. About 95% engine, 5% ship, speed 7 knots. Wiki even has an article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive
Still not completely silent and not as fast as an engine. Do you know if the US and Soviet/ex-Soviet navies have actually adapted this type of drive for submarine usage?foeth wrote:No, it exists. It's a magneto hydrodynamics drive without any moving parts, actually built into a test vessel called Yamato. About 95% engine, 5% ship, speed 7 knots. Wiki even has an article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive
From the references to it in Red October I assume it is no longer a closely guarded secret.
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I've never hear of it, and I doubt any submarine is THAT secret. You know, they are paranoid in the submarine department... they won't tell you anything even though you really don't care! But this is more a proof-of-concept ship, it's not that silent and you can't go 35+ knots with it. Not much use now.
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Foeth:
By 1930 Germany was military worthless and everybody regarded Hitler as a clown. If his intentions and policies were regarded with common sense (as Churchill shouted) then WWII would have never took place.
If, nowaday, US does not evaluate the incoming powers to be what would be today just a matter of negociation could end in ten or twenty years in a catastrophe. And those powers to be are not going to be arabic camel driver fanatical religious terrorists. In the East a giant is awakening and gathering allies all over the world while the US (well, Smeagol Bush) is spooking the few allies and friends that remain from the Cold War days.
And about technological capability is not healthy to regard our adversaries as incapable of doing something we see as imposible because they may have found a way to do it.
There is always the danger of a new enemy to pop up. As Oliver Stone sais: "Even paranoids have real enemies".But this is more a proof-of-concept ship, it's not that silent and you can't go 35+ knots with it. Not much use now.
By 1930 Germany was military worthless and everybody regarded Hitler as a clown. If his intentions and policies were regarded with common sense (as Churchill shouted) then WWII would have never took place.
If, nowaday, US does not evaluate the incoming powers to be what would be today just a matter of negociation could end in ten or twenty years in a catastrophe. And those powers to be are not going to be arabic camel driver fanatical religious terrorists. In the East a giant is awakening and gathering allies all over the world while the US (well, Smeagol Bush) is spooking the few allies and friends that remain from the Cold War days.
And about technological capability is not healthy to regard our adversaries as incapable of doing something we see as imposible because they may have found a way to do it.
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Hello...
In the very same movie, I've seen it more than once, despite I don't like Alec Baldwin, the sonar operator of the Dallas also state that he's able to detect this system due to what he calls Magma displacement or Seismic abnormalies. Is this the case with the real "silent propulsion system" also?
Is this maybe a difficult question to answer..? And by the way, does anyone know if the Russians actually execute "Crazy Ivans" for real?
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In the very same movie, I've seen it more than once, despite I don't like Alec Baldwin, the sonar operator of the Dallas also state that he's able to detect this system due to what he calls Magma displacement or Seismic abnormalies. Is this the case with the real "silent propulsion system" also?
Is this maybe a difficult question to answer..? And by the way, does anyone know if the Russians actually execute "Crazy Ivans" for real?
Regards
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As far as I´m concerned Clancy only wrote two decent books:
1. Red October
2. Red Storm Rising
Being Patriot Games the worst, augh!!!
Off topic:
He has a villa here in Costa Rica, near the sea, and he is a neighbor of Michael Crichton who put dinosaurs in our country...
I wonder if Bram Stoker didn´t had a haunted castle somewhere around...
1. Red October
2. Red Storm Rising
Being Patriot Games the worst, augh!!!
Off topic:
He has a villa here in Costa Rica, near the sea, and he is a neighbor of Michael Crichton who put dinosaurs in our country...
I wonder if Bram Stoker didn´t had a haunted castle somewhere around...
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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Talking about books, some of the best naval litterature I've ever read came from the hand of Allistair Mclean...
* HMS Ulysses
* San Andreas
* The eagles nest" (if I've pronounced it right. In German "Schloss Adler" or something like that)
But the definitely best naval book ever is of course Mullenheim-Rechbergs battleship Bismarck. It had me like glue from beginning to end.
This doesn't concern silent propulsion but...
* HMS Ulysses
* San Andreas
* The eagles nest" (if I've pronounced it right. In German "Schloss Adler" or something like that)
But the definitely best naval book ever is of course Mullenheim-Rechbergs battleship Bismarck. It had me like glue from beginning to end.
This doesn't concern silent propulsion but...
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foeth wrote:No, it exists. It's a magneto hydrodynamics drive without any moving parts, actually built into a test vessel called Yamato. About 95% engine, 5% ship, speed 7 knots. Wiki even has an article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive
Just to bring the topic back on track after my little digression, This magnetic field create an unfortunate magnetic signature, as mentioned in Wiki. But how would magnetic propulsion effect the soundwaves of an active sonar? Would they get drawn to, or bent off by this field?
Besides the external conditions such as the mentioned gas and air, how would this propulsion system effect the interior of a submarine, in terms of navigation instruments, degaussing-systems and such? Difficult questions to answer perhaps, but I simply had to ask.
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