"The Navy's top secret submarine base in ..." Topic

…land-locked IDAHO where its new stealth technology.

"The U.S. Navy's submarine bases are some of the most high-security installations in the world, but one of the most important is located at a lake in landlocked Idaho.

The Navy's Acoustic Research Detachment (ARD) at Bayview, Idaho, has supported every major submarine design development of the last 65 years.

Although located some 375 miles from the ocean, it has been called ‘the U.S. Submarine force's most important body of water" by Admiral Edmund Giambastiani, who once headed the Navy's submarine warfare group…"
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Never heard of this one, cool find

Reminds of this odd one, the USS Cornfield

If I remember right one of my old high school buddies went to Idaho for training by the Navy to work on reactors in subs. Cant remember where though.

You buddy trained at the Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) in Idaho Falls.

The Cornfield Cruiser is actually the USS Rancocas. :) Not only is it used for AEGIS weapon systems testing (the facets and superstructure are reflected in the design of the real-world guided missile Arleigh Burke class destroyer), but also for other experiments involving modifications to US Navy ship antennas – for example communicating with the latest Drones etc.

Well, when you need a really deep lake that doesn't have big-ship traffic on it, you're kinda limited in where you can work.

Not exactly a secret base, but it's certainly not well known, either!

Glad you enjoyed the article my friend.

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A Look At The U.S. Navy's 'Area 51'

"From Foxtrot Alpha: The US Navy's submarine bases are some of the most high-security installations in the world, but one of their most important and shadowy submarine outposts is not in the middle of an ocean, but rather in a lake in landlocked Idaho.

The US Navy's submarine bases are some of the most high-security installations in the world, but one of their most important and shadowy submarine outposts is not located along the ocean, but rather in a lake in landlocked Idaho.

The Navy's Acoustic Research Detachment (ARD) at Bayview, Idaho, which is some 375 miles from the ocean, is where new submarine and surface ship shapes and subsystems are tested in a sub-scale environment that closely mimics the ocean. In other words, ARD Bayview is the Navy's lower-key subsurface Area 51, and massive Lake Pend Oreille is a water based, smaller, and more outsider friendly Nellis Range Complex…"
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