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Missouri,
Olympia SSN 717 (
Los Angeles flight I),
Laffey DDG (
Spruance-class), S 56 Soviet WW II diesel,
Pegas Russian training sailing ship, and a Foxtrot Soviet diesel.
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Originally Posted by SnowLeopard
Little thing on the SSN. I got momentarily lost on it but then I remembered the diagrams I had memorized over the years, reoriented myself, and went on my way.
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How do you get lost on an SSN? They're so tiny! When I toured the Olympia in high school, the officers swarmed me. They were really nice, squirrelly, and enthusiastic, promoting Anapolis, and asking about my interest level in submarines, bombarding me with questions, testing my knowledge and background. Unfortunately, I only lasted about 20 minutes on the thing before claustrophpobia overcame me and crawling out the torpedo tube felt like the greatest idea in the world, if it got me outside. I felt really bad for them, it looked like someone has informed them of a miscarriage after a much hoped-for pregnancy.
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Has anyone visited or worked on a US warship, and then seen a Russian warship of the same catagory? I have heard the Russian ships have poor welding, rough workmanship.
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There has been a great deal of propaganda by the west claiming that Soviet (now read Russian) equipments are inferior in concept, design and manufacture.
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Pegas was a beautifully maintained ship.
And it ain't propaganda, at least in terms of workmanship. The Foxtrot was a real mess. I had a welder friend with me, and he couldn't help but comment on the shoddy welds and construction. He wanted off that thing ASAP, as if he fully expected it to sink right there at the pier. The Foxtrot was a product of 1974, was clunky, and a WW II submarine veteran who happened to be there had a shocked and disturbed look on his face, commenting his fleet boat was in most ways more advanced and better constructed and designed. When I saw the An-225 transport, it looked as though the plates had been rough-hewn, pounded with a sledgehammer to mould and conform to shape, riveted shut, and where the plates still refused to comply and align,
WELDED shut!