USS Seawolf: Is This The World's Most Advanced Nuclear Submarine? | Super Structures

USS Seawolf: Is This The World's Most Advanced Nuclear Submarine? | Super Structures | Progress

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Mark Hamill provides a fascinating insider look at the USS Seawolf (SSN-21), one of the world's most remarkable structures. Called "the most complex military machine of the 20th Century," the $2.3 billion Seawolf submarine is a prototype for the U.S. Navy's undersea future.
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@lemuelcrump7747 4 ай бұрын

On April 10, 1963, I was in the 5th grade.PERMIT. a friend classmate was doing a cross-sectional view of the USS George Washington ballistic missile submarine on the bulletin board in the back of our classroom. Both of our dads worked on submarines in Groton, CT. That morning, on April 10th, my friend came to school, and he told me that the USS Thresher SSN-593 was overdue at returning to Port. I was saddened by her loss. 8 years later, I was assigned to the USS PERMIT SSN-594. My interest in submarines began in 1961 after seeing the movie Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. I'm proud to have served on the USS Permit SSN-594.

@rdallas81 Ай бұрын

Thanks for Sharing that with us! Much love to you and blessing to you and your family! Must have been quite an experience!

@Lookaturself875 15 күн бұрын

That is awesome! Thank you for your service!!! Y’all are heroes!

@satyris410 Жыл бұрын

Glorious bit of 90s nostalgia warporn narrated by Mark Hamill

@robgrey6183 10 ай бұрын

"Seawolf" is the most badass name ever given to a warship, ever.

@rogerstephens8019 9 ай бұрын

The "Seawolf" was a diesel electric from WW2 and highly decorated!

@AuthurFoxache 8 ай бұрын

It's good, yes, but I would offer 'Dreadnaught' as a solid competitor.

@stimproid 8 ай бұрын

I’m waiting for a ship to be named USS FAFO.

@jeffplumblee6376 3 ай бұрын

Seawolf faces heavy competition from USS Kraken

@AlpaOmega-nb5jm 3 ай бұрын

Its a sub not a warship

@bradbrandon2506 9 ай бұрын

Ah, my favorite submarine ever. Beautiful piece of engineering and plain old American badassery!

@timothyvincent7371 9 ай бұрын

The place I used to work machined the propellers for Seawolf. Used to have the T-shirt but haven't seen it in years.

@jamescannon7267 8 ай бұрын

I worked on SSN 575 and SSN 571 Nautilus as a pipe fitter at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo California where it was decommissioned. Ocean Engineering used this boat for special use and that’s where I worked. I had a Top Secret clearance as all did working on this platform so I can not say what we did and even I din’t know anything about it’s mission. Modular construction did not exist so we constructed every piece of pipe by hand as did all the other trades. We did excellent construction at every step and everything we did was inspected. It was a great time in my career. Today the Ballistic Nuclear Submarine is the most powerful weapons platform on earth, I call it, The Doomsday Machine.

@NickanM 8 ай бұрын

Darn..... I wish I could see a structure like a modern sub up close. I am a little jealous to be honest.

@TheStevedie 7 ай бұрын

@@NickanM You truly can't appreciate them until your standing in front of and in them.

@Lookaturself875 15 күн бұрын

What an amazing career! Thank you!!

@MT-gv8ns Жыл бұрын

Yes, Admiral Rickover, I was the one who ate your prized seedless grapes from the officer's mess. They were delicious.

@Lookaturself875 15 күн бұрын

I knew it was u!🫡

@rustyshackelford4515 11 ай бұрын

My father was a nuke on 575.... did some crazy things that are still classified to this day.

@lemuelcrump7747 4 ай бұрын

I had four friends on the USS Seawolf SSN-575 in 1971

@brucechamberlin9666 Жыл бұрын

I implemented CAD/CAM at DuPont. Our construction rework rate went from 20% to 1.5%.

@FlyingSugarCat 9 ай бұрын

And maintenance times most likely increased because as a mechanic, sometimes packaging things too tight they don't take into account the physical size and access required to repair/replace parts. As mechanics we hate engineers.

@AgricultureTechUS Ай бұрын

These are my favourite documentaries to watch because your voice and the soundtrack is so relaxing

@jordangouveia1863 9 ай бұрын

I worked on this bad girl at EB. This sub was a nightmare to build and I don't expect we'll see anymore but the 3 we have currently.

@mrf5347 4 ай бұрын

Very sad to admit, you are correct! With the current state of the Global Politics, we currently need 20 or 30 of the Sea Wolf Class, Fast Attack Submarines!

@tomcharter4127 3 ай бұрын

More well I hope you guys had a bunch of kids that want to follow in your footsteps. Might not be possible to build in a few years more.

@rdallas81 Ай бұрын

@@tomcharter4127they just need to computerize them and allow kids to play them through a new submarine game 🎮.

@Lookaturself875 15 күн бұрын

Why??

@jordangouveia1863 15 күн бұрын

@@Lookaturself875 Because.

@noname2490 Жыл бұрын

WW2 Germany did the first module build of submarines. Funny thing is there slave labor made slight changes to random parts that forced the final fitter made corrections and repairs before they could fit the sections together.

@rdallas81 9 ай бұрын

It's a bit different building technology on a starvation diet.

@Daculaboy 11 күн бұрын

They came up with the idea based on Henry Ford and the American car manufacturing industry way of producing all the allied war machinery. Problem was the USA was used to it and pioneered that building model, even without their slave labor tinkering with the subs, they sucked anyway because the Germans didn't have the experience mass producing things like that.

@tightlines106 Жыл бұрын

engineering at it’s finest hats off to the engineers

@thomaswade3072 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, CD-ROM and eliminating paper for floppy disks. So cutting edge. What a load of crap. If these systems were designed and built properly they wouldn't be running the actually real and utterly pathetic "Windows for Warships" as their newest tech.

@deankoch7305 Жыл бұрын

@@thomaswade3072 LOL no sh!t though.

@michaelleggieri7135 Жыл бұрын

Until it gets hit by Chinese supersonic missle

@WiseOwl_1408 Жыл бұрын

It is very impressive

@WiseOwl_1408 Жыл бұрын

@@michaelleggieri7135Russia/ Ukraine war shows us everything blows up if you shoot it.

@ghostwriter1869 Жыл бұрын

This is so cool!! I just love learning about technology!!

@2persons Жыл бұрын

IT'S AN INSPIRING MACHINE and Narrated by Mark Hamil, now that was a surprise but he was really good at it.

@thomaswade3072 Жыл бұрын

Its a display of how inept military vehicle planning is. They went from hundreds to 3. Because it's a flaming piece of shit to build.

@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059 Жыл бұрын

Just think how inspiring it would be if it was designed by Disney Imagineers and narrated by Mickey Mouse!

@dannyball2503 Жыл бұрын

MAD mutually Assured Destruction. This thing is serious. The most sophisticated in the world. Now I understand why having these is important , it can be a game changer. They can destroy a surface fleet in stealth and then blast a tomahawk missile with mirv and blow stuff off the map.

@UCFCamaroSS Жыл бұрын

Back when TLC wasn't reality shows

@michaelfrisk8556 Жыл бұрын

My great uncle, Donald Joseph Naze, perished on the USS Seawolf (SSN-197) during WW2. The sub was sunk by probable freindly fire claiming all on board.

@austinlumpkins1955 Жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that about the FF, but those were heroes

@GH-oi2jf Жыл бұрын

SS-197. There were no nuclear submarines during WW II.

@warrenbrenner4972 9 ай бұрын

@@GH-oi2jf Same ship name given to other ships when no longer in service. A new Ford class carrier under construction now is the Enterprise. The Big E was our first nuclear powered carrier commissioned in 1960.

@richardpickles6026 8 ай бұрын

What about the ohio class vs seawolf?

@jimjefftube Жыл бұрын

The Seawolf Class needs to go on a war time crash build program of no less that 15 more attack subs in 6-7 years. Looks like they will be needed sooner rather than later in Asia and they give capabilities other attack subs do not have.😊

@MrGsteele Жыл бұрын

The Seawolf Class is history; DoD has moved on from Seawolf to the less expensive Virginia Class submarine. We built 3 Seawolves, and have since built 21 Virginia Class boats. Less capable, but also much less expensive - and where submarines are concerned, more is better - much better. It's about coverage, not capability; these are attack subs, whose job it is - predominantly - to take out enemy shipping with Mk 48 torpedoes, and land-based military facilities with Tomahawk cruise missiles. They have other roles, but that's the primary reason we build them. Between the 21 Virginias, the 40 688 class subs - 30 of which have Vertical Launch Systems for Tomahawks, and the 3 SSGNs - converted Ohio-class ballistic missile subs now equipped for an attack class role - we are on a major treadmill building the foundation of our anti-Russian fleet, and anti-Chinese fleet, control apparatus. With the buffoons currently running Washington, we may soon need them.

@ActionJ26 Жыл бұрын

My father worked at EB for 35 years, he was a project manager on the weapons systems for the boomers and fast attacks. Very interesting in the multitude of the various attack and insertion characteristics of subs. Correct EB secured a huge contract to build the VA class and certain aspects were carried over from the Seawolf class. As you noted the Seawolf was very expensive to build. He used to go out on the sea trials for the subs before they fully handed them over to the Navy. Some of the stories he has told me are riveting. Lot's of stuff he could never share because of the classified nature.

@waldemarpichl Жыл бұрын

@@MrGsteele ❤q😂😂😂😂😂upi

@atiboyful Жыл бұрын

The Seawolf class remains the gold standard even 30 yrs later. Just spare no expense, update the stealth design and build another 15 of these exemplary boats

@GrantDWilliams82 Жыл бұрын

Omg yes, because without the US Military everywhere, America cannot function. How on earth did America go from being a bunch of farmland and wilderness in 1776... To the richest nation on earth by 1900? We didn't even have soldiers and sailors obsessed with being everywhere, all the time. Yet somehow it happened anyway. Magic.

@matdyke5046 7 ай бұрын

The USS Jimmy Carter is the “Seawolf Class” that technically doesnt exist. No “official” home port, mission, and no contact outside except for the officers once underway.

@timber_wulf5775 Ай бұрын

Please don’t talk about 23 so negatively. She lives in Bangor, WA. Officially registered under the Naval Registry. And officers aren’t safe from being restricted to outside contact the same as enlisted (they are)

@Lookaturself875 15 күн бұрын

@@timber_wulf5775say what???

@timber_wulf5775 15 күн бұрын

@@Lookaturself875 wikipedia is your friend

@JIMJAMSC Жыл бұрын

Saw the interior of a even newer submarine and the wheels and 2+ men used to dive/steer the sub has been replaced with one man and a laptop. He simply inserts or clicks the desired action and the sub does the rest. The cool periscope mechanism you raise/lower turn etc is now a X-box controller. No nuclear engineering degree needed, only X-box EXPERIENCE.

@nenblom Жыл бұрын

Anyone read the book Blind Man’s Bluff? It’s about the history of the US submarine program and I highly recommend it!!

@rudolphfisheggs9950 Жыл бұрын

You guys have my respect.......thank yous all........amen

@lloyddibblee9693 Жыл бұрын

dibber32

@hm6956 Жыл бұрын

Love to all our military..may God protect USA..and our familys

@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059 Жыл бұрын

If God is protecting us, what do we need these for?

@bazsnell3178 Жыл бұрын

What's the invisible man in the sky got to do with anything?

@austinlumpkins1955 Жыл бұрын

God is in the Air Force, he is also “All Knowing” 😂

@davidrasmussen2975 9 ай бұрын

I developed an engineering procedure to weld attach the two main pieces of the steam generator at the dock instead of inland and then ship to dock.

@awg9dog 9 ай бұрын

Not trying to nit- pick here , but speeding past all those ships lost , and fading beyond readable names , seems really disrespectful of all those who perished . Just my opinion.

@rdallas81 Ай бұрын

Agreed

@rnish2958 Жыл бұрын

Reference the Virginia class block 5 to see the latest US attack sub. The Sea Wolf successor.

@billysears4863 Жыл бұрын

Seawolf, she’s a very quiet one. I can only imagine the true damage she can do.

@michaelterrell 9 ай бұрын

I knew Frank Holland. He was an Engineer aboard the Nautilus, when it sailed under the North Pole. He passed away, abput ten years ago. I also met the retired and elderly General Electric Engineer who designed the electrical control system for its reactor.

@lawrenceleverton7426 9 ай бұрын

I've been in the Reactor Compartment of the Nautilus. Oh its tight. Even dusted off the display dummies. All things Nautilus are cool.

@michaelterrell 9 ай бұрын

@@lawrenceleverton7426 I'm sure it is. Frank told mr about the issues on their shakedown cruise. He and another crew member created the postal stamp to mark a batch of mail, as they went under the North Ole. After his time in the Navy, he taught Nuclear Safety.

@bruce92106 Жыл бұрын

At one point Hamil equates how many stacks of floppy discs? Oh this must be old 😅😅

@LawrenceRamsey-j8q Жыл бұрын

d got ❤ m S😅

@rdallas81 Ай бұрын

Same exact principle.

@flylippfantom8425 Жыл бұрын

I'm a fitter. I didn't work on any projects at this facility. Newport News back in the day structures are put together in assemblies and subassemblies

@lawrenceleverton7426 Жыл бұрын

I used to take the subway to work. God Bless Submariners.

@unitedwestand5100 Жыл бұрын

This is ancient technology...

@ActionJ26 Жыл бұрын

Not as ancient as you believe. The current VA fast attacks replaced the Seawolf. Lot's of characteristics are taken from the Seawolf.

@rogerstephens8019 9 ай бұрын

Our military machine can't hold a feather to China ! It is ancient tech! Planned obsolescence!

@barracuda7018 Жыл бұрын

The most advanced when she was launched... Miles ahead of everything existed..

@louisblair9732 9 ай бұрын

My brother was a medic on a nuclear powered sub off the sea of Japan when it's nuclear power was , in Jeperty and was in Need of being shut down !!! He ,and 6 other sea mate's volunteered to shut down the Reactor , least they not be able to Surface !!! ,& They ,weren't supposed to be thier ether !!! They were given an estimate on How long each man had to live ! They Saved the mission !, but ! ,They All were Only given 7 , year's to live !!! , all 6 of the other men died !!! , & my brother was operated on to install a machine into his body to keep him Alive ! I just got him Help to be in another vet Hospital in UTAH ! , cause the veteran's Hospital wouldn't help Help him ! ,His wife fell down in front of him ,with a cartiack & died ,later the next day ! That's What you get ! For serving your country !!! . IT SUCK'S !!! THANKS AMEN !

@ReaverLordTonus 10 ай бұрын

@39:40 I find it interesting that today everyone says the Hunley sank the Housatonic, yet this documentary and others say it only inflicted minor damage. So which is it?

@timothyvincent7371 9 ай бұрын

The Huniey DID sink Housatonic, well documented, but never came back. Lost with all crew. Had sunk in shallow water with her crew during trials. Poor design and concept. Has been raised and is in a museum

@timothyvincent7371 9 ай бұрын

Also, the torpedo was not towed behind but was mounted on a spar attached to the bow. Whoever wrote this didn't do their homework.

@briandstephmoore4910 Жыл бұрын

You generally cruise at about 60% power, at full tilt she can do 45-50 but it's not recommended to run like that for long.

@ActionJ26 Жыл бұрын

When building them they had issues with material on the other hull sheering off. Not to mention the highly classified speed and depth.

@Aluminata Жыл бұрын

45-50? Holy...$#÷&!

@ActionJ26 Жыл бұрын

@@AluminataI believe it went closer to 60.

@Aluminata Жыл бұрын

@chadjackson5113 that is a truly insane power train!

@davidelliott5843 9 ай бұрын

It’s an insane level of hull design that’s capable of being pushed that fast. However, a large submarine going at full tilt will leave a wake in the sea surface. US has satellites to look for these wakes.

@cosumone2 7 ай бұрын

Lived on a 688 for 3 years. Straight up the most broken boat on the east coast. Worst time of my life.

@ralphwade454 Жыл бұрын

Yeah great book!

@stanmans 8 ай бұрын

Maybe the best submarine was the first nuclear powered submarine, The Nautilus. All that have come after are the result of its development. G-d bless the men and women who have the responsibility to protect us and our country.

@rdallas81 Ай бұрын

God. GOD.. Lord. Jesus . Holy spirit.. That's GOD.. Do you know HIM?. I do.. Through Faith we are saved by Grace.

@kylealexander7024 Жыл бұрын

Floppy disks the height of the world trade center My phone has that memory

@rdallas81 Ай бұрын

My phone has 10 times that amount.

@SubvertTheState Жыл бұрын

This is the most sophisticated submarine of the 1990s. They even have manuals on CD-ROM lol

@ActionJ26 Жыл бұрын

Lol my Dad worked at EB for 35 years (PM weapons). I remember the binders he would come home with.

@SubvertTheState Жыл бұрын

@@ActionJ26 thats awesome haha. Yeah I was a Stryker ICV driver in Iraq, I actually have 2 binders just for that vehicle haha.

@michaelmichaelagnew8503 9 ай бұрын

Yep CD-ROM's were cutting edge technology in the early 90's before DVD's came out. I was still listening to a cassette player when this sub was depeloped.

@phil20_20 Жыл бұрын

What year was this film made?

@fn0rd-f5o Жыл бұрын

it is just not the same without seeing depth charge mortars exploding all around the submarine.

@MichaelEhline 9 ай бұрын

Great video gents

@MrApiiinr Жыл бұрын

This program (Seawolf) has as been around for 4 decades.

@HomerSimpson514 Жыл бұрын

I analyze steel for scrap brokers and was wondering what was up with the HY 100 I was finding. Have lots of HY 80 and HY 140

@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059 Жыл бұрын

HY-80 and HY-100 are both weldable grades, whereas the HY-130 is generally considered unweldable. HY-80 is considered to have good corrosion resistance and has good formability to supplement being weldable.

@user-rv6dl5nb4w 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic!

@alexbuckle1085 Жыл бұрын

That order could skyrocket if a global conflict breaks

@glenm5034 5 ай бұрын

How does navy select personnel for submarines?

@geneadaway2671 2 ай бұрын

They have to volunteer, then qualify.

@SiphiweNyawera-qj2jr Жыл бұрын

Well, battle maneuvers are a feature that might not sit well with commercial transactions modes viability. I still accept the ice burg and sea creatures theory of submarines. Reff: Titanic.

@EmperorFMMehdiCFRSUSANATO007 11 ай бұрын

I visited all Submarine every parts when I was working as Field Marshall in Submarine fleet.

@asp1od Жыл бұрын

The opener for the video says it all: We have the THICKEST, the LONGEST, the BEST, the FASTEST, and we have the MOST BEAUTIFUL submarine in the world. It can do things others can't... A typical American reportage.

@isaacshaver6218 Жыл бұрын

America yea

@Kudabear1 Жыл бұрын

The floppy disk reference was a terrible way to state the complexity of the submarine lmao.

@kenashworth7672 Жыл бұрын

I was a nuclear engineer in the US Navy. I truly think Hyman G. Rickover may have been one of the greatest engineers of the 20th century, if not the greatest. Yeah, I'm an ex-nuke Rickover fanboy, and unashamed. My hero was a Jewish mad scientist Admiral who somehow managed to convince Congress that it was safe to operate a nuclear reactor underwater, and then delivered on it. I am jealous that they now have all the manuals available in digital format. I know it's not a good look. But there were freeking literally tons of manuals on everything everywhere. You could stumble around in engineering, touch something and chances are there was either a manual for that if you didn't lose a finger, or there may have been a manual even if you did lose a finger. But my point isn't fingers, it is the manuals this metaphorical finger fingered - that is "fingered" in the context of pointing at things with manuals - with the "manuals" being the point. I'm trying to so there were so many manuals. It's so cool that's now not on big physical paper binders. While having a lot of paper, also had other materials, because binders require other materials (including metal, which to be clear, is not paper) to properly function as minders. Although I do not recall there was a manual on the binders - they just went wild and figured nuclear engineers would derive the engineering that goes into the construction of a binder and intuitively grasp how to operate the binder - even if the binder comprised of more materials than paper. But that also is not my point, my point is the mass. They took up space and were heavy. I like manuals - I just like manuals more when they are digital so weigh nothing - much less than the something it was - which was a lot.

@paulmichals Жыл бұрын

@kenashworth7672 I am also an ex-nuc. I was an RO on a SSN 637 class out of Pearl from 76-79. I remember when we would get back to port having to use some big mid 1970's copy machine at some office on shore, using ream after ream of paper, to make x-number of copies of the latest set of revisions of the nuc manuals. Then go back to the boat and spend hours updating all the binders back aft. I am also a Rickover admirer and highly recommend Polmar & Allen's book: "Rickover". The joke back when I was in was that the "G" of his middle names was for God. I spent much of my early 20s: underway, underwater, on watch.

@CraigRasmussen1 Жыл бұрын

I was a nuc officer on USS Flasher (SSN 613) from 1966 to 1971. Understand your point here. If all systems failed….we could probably sink somebody by hitting them with RPM manuals. Each one of the things weighed `5-6 lbs.

@wbrockstar9550 15 күн бұрын

As a former MT on SSBN's which was in the very first class of SWSE school after it was relocated to Groton from Kings Bay,GA I felt sorry for you nukes because I remember all the talk that went around the base about how damn many hours a day/night you guys had to go to class. Glad I missed the qualification score by 2 points for that program. Learning the trident Dll nuclear missile in & out was enough school for me.

@kenashworth7672 7 күн бұрын

@@wbrockstar9550 If I had scored 1 point less, I would not have been accepted into the nuke program - that test seriously rattled me. so I was.... lucky? Not so sure about that one, shipmate... The school was truly rough. And it's not like Missile Tech is an easy rate.

@wbrockstar9550 7 күн бұрын

@@kenashworth7672 If you can do so without divulging any top secret information,what component,system or functioning process that's part of the reactor would you say was the most difficult portion to learn overall and was it the same for the other students?? All through high school I constantly wondered what was the purpose of Algebra/Algebra ll & how I would never see myself needing it for anything. Then low & behold, it was literally the very first subject discussed in BERT (basic electronics rate training) along with the formulas we would use to do many parts of our job/rate. I was definitely relieved I had taken it in high school then.

@benitomoralesjr1142 8 ай бұрын

Focus on saving the planet not blowing it up

@russ549 Жыл бұрын

Why do military videos always have the best drums?

@lemuelcrump7747 4 ай бұрын

Oh, from 1975 to 1985, I helped build the Seawolf, Los Angeles, and Ohio class submarines.

@Appachoppa112 7 ай бұрын

With maritime chokepoints like the red sea rn, we should move from commercial shipping to submarining. At least in disputed waters. Maybe even have like a navy program where we could quickly be refitted for war if needed

@juanpecan7089 Ай бұрын

super inefficient

@DustDevilRage Жыл бұрын

8:53 The first shots fired in the gulf war were by the assets of Operation Secret Squirrel out of Barksdale. 596 BS Excalibur

@cvx23231 10 ай бұрын

Find out about the predacessor, SSN 575 “NURO SEAWOLF” THAT WAS A BAD-ASS BOAT

@backwardation25 Жыл бұрын

Is Mark Hamill from Star Wars really narrating this?

@rdallas81 Ай бұрын

Yes

@Sean-u8e 16 күн бұрын

And still room for more and in the future

@stanmans 8 ай бұрын

Anyone out there know anything about the protruding knob forward of the tower and near the prow?

@robertcook5201 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately these were designed using early CAD/CAM. Many parts were over designed and almost impossible to manufacture. With each unit becoming almost a prototype.

@rdallas81 9 ай бұрын

Sure doesn't look impossible to me, lol

@thepandeslar8062 8 ай бұрын

What makes you think military-industrial complex engineering facilities stopped designing when the prototype part was made? I've seen instances where fasteners went through 25 revisions after release. Never mind electronics going from SMT (surface mount technology) PC boards to stand-alone integrated devices. Check out how many transistors you can get on the head of a pin. Ever hear of Moore's Law? New advances in AI computer design are making it obsolete. And nowadays, virtually no discrete part is impossible to manufacture. The biggest drawback is the cost of desirable material in quantity (think graphene in large sheets). Another drawback is the current level of available technology, and the reluctance to invest in exploiting new avenues of thought. AutoCAD is a great program, but it isn't the program of choice for high-tech design.

@GaryMorris-s8z 8 ай бұрын

Studying the movement of the sea feelin this creature pull in deepth Can be interested on signing ❤🎉😮

@linseyskelly9524 Жыл бұрын

Submaine? I think you have a typo in your screen

@progress-science Жыл бұрын

You didn't see anything... 👀

@Sean-u8e 16 күн бұрын

Want to see concept design of space wolf attack anti gravity sub ship and space ship photon torpedoes

@omg2569 6 ай бұрын

Seawolf-class nuclear submarines like the USS Connecticut use passive sonar to identify and locate targets. Passive sonar is highly covert and has long detection range and it is the preferred way for submarine underwater detection in peace-time operations and daily sailing. When it comes to offensive maneuvers or navigating in environments with complex bottom topography, submarines would change to positive sonar for detection. But some recent analysis suggest that submarines would also use passive sonar to cover their tracks sometimes,

@waltewhitesPhD 8 ай бұрын

This production is owned byu NatGeo and not licensed to this channel.

@KUSHxKiNG 9 ай бұрын

7:16 I disagree. Those were the most dangerous times in world history not just American. A nuclear war wouldn’t just affect American soil and Soviet soil. That would be a world wide catastrophe.

@Aluminata Жыл бұрын

It's old now but must still be comparable to the LHC. Or the latest iteration of it.

@atiboyful Жыл бұрын

Its still way ahead of the Virginia class even now

@markblain8438 18 күн бұрын

In Groton sandwiches are called grinders. Not submarine sandwiches.

@Sean-u8e 16 күн бұрын

Military will override everything and private sector can handle maintenance and related upgrades faster then bureaucracy hold ups on upgrades

@KUSHxKiNG 9 ай бұрын

11:47 we now know if a force makes threats about knowing where your at or that they know your on your way it’s just a scare tactic. It’s really the force making the threat that’s scared. But those times were different times yeah it was modern warfare for the time but the ground war was still fought the same as it was for the past 500 plus years

@wolfgangmonsalve101 Жыл бұрын

Soy ex police Venezuela me gusta vida military la AMO...hasta morir los milutares son hombre del Bien cumplir su promesa .anen

@rdallas81 Ай бұрын

God bless you Venezuela 🇻🇪 brother (hermano)

@hudsonslim3169 Жыл бұрын

So many people commenting here seem to find documentaries like this, which showcase state-of-the-art technology at the time, hysterically funny. Perhaps they lack the awareness to see that today's state-of-the-art technology may seem just as 'laughable' 30 years from now. They also seem to forget that these systems don't stand still but are constantly being upgraded. Today's technology didn't spring into being out of nowhere. It's the result of decades, even hundreds of years, of technological innovation and evolution.

@jsteins 9 ай бұрын

0:11 Can you imagine being in the sub crew during a rapid surfacing where the bow launches over 60ft above the water, and then falls the height of a 8 story building back below the waves !?! While this sort of looks like a whale playing on the surface, you have to realize the scale of that sub about 40ft tall (nearly 15m without conning tower) and the nose went way farther into the air, then splashed down to submerged level again. HOLD ON !! That's taking every person and machine on a wild roller coaster ride. Tie EvErYtHiNg down (especially the torpedos)... tell the kitchen NoT to be cooking/serving anything at the time, and hope nobody was trying to use the bathroom. How does a nuclear reactor like being tossed into the air, then dropped five stories or more while still generating about 80% of its rated power ?? ( I guess they build 'em Navy tough )

@robertmcnearny9222 Жыл бұрын

Shame the program was cancelled with only 3 built.

@lawrenceleverton7426 Жыл бұрын

The 3 Built helped in the designing of the Va Class. And they are awesome. Cap't Dave said the Seawolf was so fast things fall off. Believe him.

@ActionJ26 Жыл бұрын

This is true my father worked at EB. The issue was the outer hull covering on the initial build it would sheer off. It was the fastest sub in the world. The cost was the reason they only built a few.

@michaelmichaelagnew8503 9 ай бұрын

@@lawrenceleverton7426 The Seawolf was quieter at top speed than the Va class sitting in the harber. It's in a class of its own. Exceptionally well designed and built.

@gregzeng 9 ай бұрын

Liquid plasma display screens. A very old technology. LED or OLED of several types now instead.

@bobdinwiddy Жыл бұрын

submaine ❤ (intro slide typo) …

@Sean-u8e 16 күн бұрын

All why all promoting most powerful branch of all armed forces excluding up and coming spacefoce even better

@leeadickes7235 Жыл бұрын

Did he say SHOOT? 😂

@mitchellota1585 Жыл бұрын

To God be the glory; great things he hath done.

@rdallas81 Ай бұрын

Yes. God is great . Yet, man typically chooses pride, lust, hate, fear mongering, love of money and power.. Man even chooses man over WO man. That's what they are teaching in the US today.

@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 Жыл бұрын

Brand new thirty years ago? Am I correct. Maybe that's where they grew the inspiration for a name that TV show airwolf

@doobie9550 Жыл бұрын

Why is your video almost identical to the one Spark created and posted 3 years ago?

@MarkGardiner-g2y 7 ай бұрын

It makes no difference whatsoever how advanced a weapon is if you don't have the best people/ person trained to use it.. When it comes to submarines the Royal Navy are no 1. All the very best USN submarine Captains have training by the Royal Navy, fact, whether you like it or not.