 Saginaw  | 17 May 2013 5:30 p.m. PST |
At least that's the plan of a group of city officials who want to preserve this storied relic of the old Cold War: link It's great to know that this particular Los Angeles-class submarine (SSN-700) won't likely see its end under a scrapper's torch. I hope that a similar gesture can be afforded the recently-commissioned U.S.S. Fort Worth (LCS-3) when her active duty days are over. I'll echo a line spoken from the Cold War thriller 'The Hunt for Red October' during a pinnacle moment: "Way to go, Dallas!"  |
| optional field | 17 May 2013 5:48 p.m. PST |
…but how will they get it there? |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 17 May 2013 5:50 p.m. PST |
I'll believe it when I see it. |
| Phil Hall | 17 May 2013 7:09 p.m. PST |
They are going to cut it up and reassemble it in Dallas. They want to make one side with plexiglass windows. Shades of the old Renwal kits. |
| Lion in the Stars | 17 May 2013 10:02 p.m. PST |
Well, you gotta cut out the entire engineroom and the reactor. What Dallas would be getting is the front half of a sub and a 100+ft long, 36ft diameter gift shop. |
| Cardinal Ximenez | 18 May 2013 6:48 a.m. PST |
>>>Well, you gotta cut out the entire engineroom and the reactor. What Dallas would be getting is the front half of a sub and a 100+ft long, 36ft diameter gift shop.
Yep. I had the opportunity to take a tour of an attack sub at my cousin's change of command ceremony. The boat diagram had a big blank area where the reactors would have been. The torpedo room was really cool as was the attack center. They had a sheet of Russian ship silhouettes taped up on the wall by the periscopes. Brought the Hunt for Red October to life.
DM |
| RebelPaul | 18 May 2013 7:03 a.m. PST |
You sure the Obama Administration will let that happen? |
| EJNashIII | 18 May 2013 12:22 p.m. PST |
Where is the unicorn? I know it is on the way for the blatant, bizarre, unnecessary, and against the rules political comment. Should I smuggle you a file to the dog house, RebelPaul? |
| Charlie 12 | 18 May 2013 1:05 p.m. PST |
Funny, I don't see anything about the USN approving the transfer (and they get the last word on such things). |
| jowady | 18 May 2013 4:39 p.m. PST |
Reading this article it seems far from certain that this will happen, but the appropriate folks are evidently okay with it. link |
| Fonthill Hoser | 18 May 2013 6:27 p.m. PST |
RebelPaul, could you please clarify? Hoser |
| nvdoyle | 18 May 2013 8:04 p.m. PST |
Well, you gotta cut out the entire engineroom and the reactor. Nah, they should just make a bunch of stuff up, have some prop and set designers come in. Make it look like it's powered by some discovered alien tech, maybe a few brains in jars used as organic supercomputers to keep the polarization fields stable, a black hole containment system, banks of hamsters in wheels hooked up to generators, Prohibition-era stills, that sort of thing…and pass it off as completely accurate. |
| Charlie 12 | 18 May 2013 9:34 p.m. PST |
"Well, you gotta cut out the entire engineroom and the reactor. What Dallas would be getting is the front half of a sub and a 100+ft long, 36ft diameter gift shop." And the sonar, comm, fire control, depth control, periscope, etc,etc.. What they'll end up with is a very long, very empty tube…. (they might get the galley and berthing spaces and that's about all…) |
| Lion in the Stars | 20 May 2013 10:31 a.m. PST |
Nope, you can get most of the front end. Might have to change out (or blank out) a couple of the gauges, that's it. Look, I served on a missile boat, and we could give tours of pretty much everything forward of the reactor compartment (at the forward end of the engine room). Yes, really. No problem letting folks look through the periscopes, or any of the rest. There was ONE gauge that we left covered in port. One. The deep depth gauge, since that would reveal how deep we could go (the official line is greater than 800 feet, and I have been greater than 800 feet down.) |
harvests scenario ideas from The Third World War.
