Submarine USS Olympia Prepare to Launch Torpedo

[@riderstrano783]

Does my heat good to see that naval architects still put a little bright work into our fighting ships

[@alanmccright2282]

Many here are bemoaning the lack of haste: This is not combat, it is a training exercise. The crew are appropriately taking things slowly and by the book. There are 50 friendly vessels involved in RIMPAC. It would be rather awkward if they accidentally banged a torpedo into one of them--or lost their own billion-dollar submarine--because somebody forgot step five, don't you think?

[@dogmeat4275]

I'm more curious on why they are shouting on a submarine, seems kinda counter intuitive

[@dashcamdude6690]

@@dogmeat4275 so every one in the room is aware that the weapon is moving and no accidents happen

[@dogmeat4275]

@@dashcamdude6690 Dimitri on sonar scope will be aware too

[@johnknapp952]

I don't remember the last time I had a 2 Star Admiral watch my training exercise. The Harpoon looks to be a war shot (the color says it's not an inert round), plus this is part of a Sinkex which means live rounds. Those Mk-48 torpedoes are monsters compared to the Mk-46's I worked with.

[@christopherbrodhagen8646]

@@johnknapp952 As a submariner all drills suck and are slow. The first time the blood is pumping and you have to act and things happen so quick and everything is smooth it seems surreal. As a leader you see a mistake and think hmmm time for drills.

[@mokomothman5713]

Everyone complaining about the speed- This is training. They're taking their time. RIMPAC has dozens of friendly vessels in the water with them. Do you really want an incident? Slow is smooth, smooth is fast- crawl, walk, run.

[@espeterson522]

My issue isn't necessarily with the crew. How fucking complicated does it need to be to load a torpedo? There should be about 90% less steps. I'm actual combat, this sub would be added to the "permanently on patrol" board. It's about who can shoot the fastest accurately. If it takes you 3 minutes minimum to load the tube, how do you expect to get more than 2 shots off before you die?

[@sakariaskarlsson634]

Well.. Lets just say you dont want to drop a live torpedo on the floor.

[@jonbauer719]

slow is smooth smooth is fast. better to go slower and every one staying safe then have to stop when someone gets their hand taken off or gets electrocuted. qauified weapons handling team leader here

[@jonbauer719]

@@espeterson522 there shear risk of messing up a step can be drastic, flooding fire, ottofuel leak.... this is all training. there are quick load proceedure. crawl walk run. we train slow and correctly so whem the time comes its muscle memory. You train for speed and youre gonna get sloppy. train proper form and you wont even have to think when a real situation happens.

[@bturner2030]

Point of training is to train for war? You train as you fight?

[@twstf8905]

Haha sounds like they're saying, "What?!" Whenever he shouts out what he's about to do lol they're like, "Huh?!?" 🤣

[@danielwright7257]

Oh my old boat, I think I am one of the few people that has been everywhere on this submarine. It was somewhere around 1993 we were in shipyard, the reactor core was removed so the boat was totally cool, usually when your in port the reactor makes many places in accessible due to heat. You might notice that the submarine is immaculate, that’s because the crew spent hours and hours cleaning. For some reason it’s called a field day it was during those few days that I would find every nook and cranny or as we like to call them pookas to relax and shoot the sh*t. After five hours of cleaning and three hours left to go the nonsense seems endless. Thanks for posting

[@royhammond3604]

Or you could hide in the radio room like we always did, lol.

[@danielwright7257]

Roy Hammond Radio is always a good place to hide, if you were a Radioman, or a Nav ET... The fan room was always an interesting place to hide as well. But I actually was able to finagle my way under the ship service hydraulic plant. In hindsight it was kind of stupid, if there was ever a fire especially with all the welding going on, I would have been dead because it took about 20 minutes to get in and out of that tiny space... I am on Twitter if you would like to exchange stories @Daniel_P_Wright Although fair warning, I am an antiwar democrat, I will share a common bond of being members of the Silent Service. Thanks for posting. Stay safe ✌🏼

[@royhammond3604]

@@danielwright7257 Definitely no quick exit from the behind the hydraulics if needed.

[@bubblehead78]

Behind IC Switchboard, Upper-Level Ops, starboard. A bit of a struggle to get back there, but possible.

[@charliebuckley6572]

In the Army, it's a 'GI party'

[@TinfoilHatWearer]

I wonder how much of these procedures they actually follow in a emergency situation... Like, seems to me that all those procedures would get in the way. Likely a life and death thing.

[@bobwalton3926]

Was wandering the same the enemy could have done killed twice i thing.

[@Dra741]

Didn't during World War II and it's not going to now they are trained on how to load these torpedo tubes in the most extreme emergencies

[@wilsonclarito8825]

This is not a movie that made a shortcut method to lauch torpedo.

[@chris8312]

Could end up flooding the weapons room if you don't follow the procedure

[@seanmccrary8300]

That's not a torpedo, it's a subsurface variant of the AGM Harpoon anti-surface missile.

[@lciummo1]

Good catch - the folded fins are the giveway.

[@timaahhh]

How is the weapon held the tube after the ram is retracted? Do they have some kind of restraint in the tube itself? I image there is a lot of room in front for it to slide forward and it could just slide out the back if they take on a lot of angle.

[@hoghogwild]

@@lciummo1 At 1:22 the weapons plug is also labelled "HARPOON". Those folded fins are the part of the missile that help maintain directional stability as the missile moves through the water. All of what you see that is green that is being inserted into that torpedo tube is jettisoned when the missile broaches the surface of the water and flies away. That green cover will be left in the water.

[@hoghogwild]

@@timaahhh For the UGM-84 subsurface launched Harpoon loading(the first weapon loading showed), at 1:45 "Warning: Weapon must be restrained at all times!" So yes, the weapon must be held in place at all times, even when in the tube. At 2:09 the video shows the "Liner latch pin being installed and confirmed with the following call "Liner latch pin installed." At 6:57 they are ensuring that the weapon(this time a torpedo. trainer) is "restrained" for and aft before they remove the rammer to allow the inner tube door to be closed and secured. "I image there is a lot of room in front for it to slide forward and it could just slide out the back if they take on a lot of angle." The surface ship and subsurface ship(submarine) versions of the Harpoon anti ship missile measure 4.6 meters long(15 feet 1 inch) while the air launched version is 3.8 meters or 12 ft 5 inches. The current Mark 48 torpedoes that everyone uses has a length of 5.8 meters/19 feet. So yes there is some extra length in the tube when the shorter UGM-84 Harpoon is loaded into a torpedo tube.

[@scottweeks7237]

timaahhh yes there are latches in the tube that hold weapons in place. Don’t ask me anymore about them cuz I don’t remember anymore about them!

[@paulfraley]

Sorry I fell alsleep....did it ever get fired?

[@jesse00pno]

papa fox Best Comment!

[@Glocktuah]

I served on the Olympia as Torpedomen myself Olympia Ohana !!!!

[@tjd2326]

Seams like alot of tools to get lost while taking fire or mines

[@jonbauer719]

they are all locked to the bulhead when not being used

[@Dra741]

When your under attack you don't drop those things easily and if you do you'll find this fast

[@pa6524]

The glorious hotdog dispenser

[@sakariaskarlsson634]

The pain sausage

[@mylter]

@@sakariaskarlsson634 the exploding hotdog

[@robertwarren4266]

8:00 music name pleaseee

[@ieeyore4989]

Did that turn into a contractor video demo before the end?

[@Georgi-Slavov-Ukraini]

Was this the captain at 3 46?

[@bassmith448bassist5]

What happened to the audio at 2:59-3:00???

[@кожевникедвард]

Интересно они непосредственно перед каждым выстрелом так "быстро" заряжают?

[@criselledadiz8924]

The enemy is firing😆😆😆 ohh 10 minutes before we fire so many safety procedure jajaja

[@richcook2007]

It's a training shoot. They do it by the book.

[@michigandogman3060]

This brigs back a lot of good memories, I was aboard the USS Richard B. Russell SSN687 as a torpedoman 👍🏻👊🏻

[@tylerbaldwin1161]

What was the cable he attached to the harpoon?

[@watti-s4x]

what name of the last music?

[@JaJ0001]

How many minutes consumed?

[@leegreen140]

That looks like a harpoon test vehicle

[@khairulhakimi5314]

Welll the thing is.....how complicated to prepare just one single torpedo???can u imagine if there's a war....wow good luck sailor

[@inkblack6256]

Heat of battle. Fire a torpedo. Wait 10 mins to load it.

[@paulbrownett3673]

WWII They would have had two spreads of 4 each in the time it takes to load one. m Mainly muscle power - block and tackles and half a dozen sweaty sludgemariners.

[@MichaelDelvalle-nt4gp]

its not a torpedo its a harpoon missile

[@paulbrownett3673]

@@MichaelDelvalle-nt4gp So it comes out of a tube under the water - Torpedo - noun 1. a cigar-shaped self-propelled underwater missile designed to be fired from a ship or submarine or dropped into the water from an aircraft and to explode on reaching a target. Its a Torpedo !!!! - Nomenclature ducky dear nomenclature and etymology.

[@b3lkan]

@@paulbrownett3673 It literally says HARPOON on it bruh.

[@paulbrownett3673]

@@b3lkan torpedo See definitions in: noun 1. a cigar-shaped self-propelled underwater missile designed to be fired from a ship or submarine or dropped into the water from an aircraft and to explode on reaching a target. TORPEDO !!! apart from which - what is a BRUH ?????

[@ВасилийПупкин-ф7е]

Why is so clean? Because its new?

[@bvnseven]

High Standards.

[@tensaibr]

My God is that a loud sub.

[@mikec7848]

Jesus Christ the navy could make shitting in a bucket a 15 man 8 hour event

[@darwinb718]

Imagine a nuclear powered torpedo being shot from some port to hit naval bases on the other side and including the reactor for its payload...

[@wingzero7X]

Don’t be giving them ideas they already cooked up.....plus what if it broke midway? Now we have a possible nuke sitting in the fault lines

[@rexerator]

Nuclear reactors are not nuclear bombs. They're just radioactive.

[@user-ih9ed9yn3g]

Thanks for the idea dude :) - from Pyeonyang, Kim Jung Eun

[@galliman123]

russians already making this

[@jesantonihevileon8611]

URSS almost use then in the USA Cuban nuclear missile crisis in 1962 .

[@wandilande9628]

How they restock the 'ammo'?

[@bayurukmanajati1224]

Yo man. Go to base, and restock the ammo. But safe mode = on. So the ammo wont blow up in the middle of restocking. It's still the same if they are in war. We cannot restock in the middle of battle. At least, not in the enemy area.

[@seanmccrary8300]

The second is a Mk 48 training torpedo, it's inert. Meaning it has no warhead.

[@briansonnenfelt7125]

It's also on a VA class...

[@Learnelectronics738]

Hi

[@fmpApps]

Way faster in WWII submarine movies...

[@user-ih9ed9yn3g]

Is it supposed to be that huge?

[@bvnseven]

lol, she did ask that...

[@andyvan5692]

no wonder they (usa and russia) had so many torpedo tube accidents, see how long the inner door is held open for while they load the tube!, esp. since we are told the INNER door is the STRONGER of the two, so why keep it open so long??

[@scottweeks7237]

There are actually three doors: breech, muzzle, and shutter. Additionally the breech and muzzle doors are interlocked so they can’t be open at the same time. If I remember right - and I’m not promising that I do - the muzzle door opened automatically as part of the launch command, the shutter door being opened by a button earlier in the firing point procedures.

[@SaltiDawg2008]

@@scottweeks7237 You're confused!

[@scottweeks7237]

Salti Dawg appreciate the comment, but would you mind clarifying where I’m confused? I’m not saying I am not confused necessarily, as it’s been 28 years since I qualified, and crawled in a submarine via a torpedo tube. Then again I was engineering, not weps.

[@fuckheinschitt239]

Stupid

[@gregdesmet5658]

Mean while the target is long gone

[@qwerty0803]

I never thought a torpedo is this long

[@nohorseindin1603]

Thats what she said...

[@MJer09128]

It’s stunning how boring this process looks. I think I’d rather launch myself from a torpedo tube than spend a tour on one of those subs.

[@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32]

When you are dealing with hundreds of kg worth of high explosive boring is good.

[@tylersmith6648]

😂😂😂😂😂 explosion "THE END". 🤷

[@CopperCityPatriot]

Wow. If they're gonna take their darn time, I guess the enemy will wait to fire their weaponry.

[@raymondedge8889]

Jeses...this load and fire is the slowest. This is like watching the air force do something......snore

[@Frydaddy85]

Training exercise, not mission procedures. Notice the civilians in the other shots?

[@dogmeat4275]

@@Frydaddy85 civilians are just allowed on nuclear submarines huh?

[@Frydaddy85]

@@dogmeat4275 subs are a lot more relaxed than the uptight surface fleet, despite being more secret. We even have a Tiger Cruise for the family members. Though this guy is possibly a contractor for the torpedo or something.

[@dogmeat4275]

@@Frydaddy85 so a sub containing a NUCLEAR REACTOR which has the ability to launch a bunch of tomahawks, is more lax than a destroyer crew enjoying the sun... ok

[@fabriglas]

Looks a tad complicated ?

[@thecalmingspace2450]

About the comments about the loading being slow. The first fish was actually a Tomahawk missile being fired from a sub retrofitted to fire it. There is a lot of random equipment that has to be mounted to the tube to “talk” to it. Torpedo’s take way less time.

[@scottweeks7237]

It was a Harpoon, the Tomahawks had silver canisters that stayed in the tube after launch and had to be back-hauled afterwards.

[@dann2284]

Look more like a horizontal lauch for the harpoon missile

[@slug69_yt33]

And no propellor.

[@jaclumbai9736]

I'm very disturbing with this loading system very traditional method, very slow and torpedos is in storage condition. The torpedos should ever ready inside round type cartridge or tube and anytime can just turn the cartridge by select type of weapons into the firing tube.

[@petersedliak4362]

Its anti-ship missile, not torpedo and this is training launch so its kind of normal that they have to go through all process.

[@glenturney4750]

Where there is no vocal sound in this video, (maybe 'Classified' instructions may have been given), they should've played elevator music to replace the non audio of the vid. 😁

[@thomasdelaney9370]

War would be over by the time they finished loading.the fish!

[@mungo7136]

It is exercise not time contest. They are not going to get some medal for not removing some safety pin, not securing some cable nor for i.e. sending that expensive fish to the bottom of the ocean by not following whole procedure.

[@du5707]

Beats me. Speed and rate of fire doesn’t seem to part of this exercise. Imagine calmly doing all these when another fish is pinging toward you. Nobody heard of auto loader.

[@graffie88]

This is a training exercise if you freeze frame at 6:09 the side of the torpedo says inert it’s a dummy one used in war games, in the heat of the moment they’d probably have the tubes loaded and others ready to go in after if needed

[@colinnewland9887]

Train like you intend to fight.

[@mehmetsahsert3284]

Imagine a new world war and these crew on a convoy hunting mission sinking heav container ships with torpedos.

[@mikevoltamp6146]

They'd killed the enemy well before the convoy was in danger. ic2/ss USS Gurnard.1979-1981.

[@bturner2030]

Sure hope that during combat it does take them that long to load a torpedo

[@markusbarak8330]

Was gonna say at first... That is not an ADCAP... then I read the description... Harpoooooooon!!!

[@jackshittle]

Seems like the Olympia would have been torpedo'd & sunk 10x over by the time she got one of her own torpedos loaded & shot.

[@gaiusteh7015]

wow WOW

[@markcooke5270]

By the time they've prepped the torpedo there's already one coming in at you from the enemy.. way too slow

[@ayalia1]

Or u could be ready at all times, like the Mirsk... oh wait. ;)

[@ayalia1]

I hear ya, i was just be8ng an ass, yah it does take a while but guess it’s safer. I was arty/inf anyway.

[@ayalia1]

@@markcooke5270 rock on brother, trained a few of y’all on camp Johnson to use claymores. Best drinking buds! ;p

[@ayalia1]

@@markcooke5270 never heard of it but Milan? Ats I know of viper uglsp and hummer 7ton dragon wagon at mounted. Sure inf assembled versions also. Wasnt it a tungsten load or something

[@ayalia1]

Depleted uranium lol hurl

[@Arathor82]

(Crimson Tide theme intensifies)

[@andrewjernigan799]

I’m curious how fast could you really shoot one if attacked

[@dudove1]

Half an hour from what it looks like

[@thomasdelaney9370]

GEESH! I understand all about safety, but as long as it takes for them to load a torpedo, the firing solution must be an hour old! The freaking war will be o Er by the time they launch the torpedo!

[@mnrobards]

We in trouble if it takes that long under normal conditions to load.

[@brandonclark435]

I wonder if it took that long for an old Gato class to load and launch one torpedo.

[@haleiturbo888]

好荣幸，居然参观了潜艇

[@DrivenbyTwo]

Ww2: shove it in, equalise pressure, shoot it out!!

[@textech4056]

They are a long way from rapid fire.

[@juancobos4025]

Ten minutes for launch!!! Submarine sink.

[@lamboferrari7963]

Man it was a slow reload, but the music at the end woke me up. So what is the name of the music?

[@TheMoonchild1969]

Torpedoes still loaded manually? I thought this proceeding was already fully automated. Seems clumsy not to mention slow and the potential of human error.🤔

[@neutrino78x]

this is a lot more automated than it used to be. back in the 60s they used ropes and stuff. Now we have motors and the torpedo is guided into the tube much more precisely. As far as slow...you would normally have the torpedo loaded already so you can launch on someone if need be. :) source: I was USN submarines 1999 to 2003. sonar tech but everyone crosstrains and I'm qualified Torpedo Handling Team Member and I'm also trained in loading and launching torpedoes while underway.

[@crazys8s]

You know all that "warning acknowledged" crap was probably only done cuz there's a camera there

[@wouldntyouliketoknow9891]

And a 2 star admiral

[@crazys8s]

@@wouldntyouliketoknow9891 didn't know there was a 2 star there but yea definatly if an admiral was there

[@paulbrownett3673]

Gee -I did not know they were that slow to load!!! - the average U Boat would have loaded and fired 8 by the time this lot get one in the tube. Some say it is only Training but in an RN Work Up you know what you are doing and do it fast before you are sunk.

[@cherrybacon9790]

German Sub attacking- prep torpedoes!!! - "Someone seen my hex key set?"

[@TheMoonchild1969]

This kind of information doesn't need to be classified? Just asking🤣🤣🤣🤦🏻‍♂️

[@arnoldsanders6878]

So much for rapid fire. Jeez...

[@jetmech9287]

They would fire these much faster if they had read all that CRT literature.

[@johannsebastianbach9003]

Torpedoes! Loss!!

[@dogmeat4275]

Erwin Rommel was known to be a great U-boat captain

[@kuyabertostv7144]

Afraid with these men, loaded the torpedoes very slow.

[@Dra741]

You have to load that torpedo and prepare it properly otherwise don't have torpedoes

[@disogood4538]

В кепках в подводной лодке...

[@АндрейГичко-л3з]

Я не говорю что у янкии плохое оружие..но вот такое впечаиление что бы стрельнуть нужна куча людей..какие то затычки..ключики..боевой клич и тд..не война а игра блин

[@towelietowel4513]

In the Navy we love to boogie

[@T34-n9z]

民兵吗？

[@jetmech9287]

4:50 That does not give me confidence in our sub fleet.

[@quintenarnaldy7340]

(USS?) RAPID LAUNCH TIMELINE.COUNTDWN. RELEASED ATTACK. HUNTER KILL.

[@colinnewland9887]

VERY slow! Try that when somebody is shooting at you and you need a 2nd shot.

[@duomaxwell4340]

Goddam if it takes this long to load on there dead in one minute there have lost

[@azizahjaafar913]

U

[@davidparis4948]

Life is precious and beautiful and only once for everyone, so why waste it in an underwater box?

[@colinkesby9272]

I made these bombs early 90s

[@АртемАкубеков]

Как-то скучно 😐

[@marianhadarau6280]

THEY Will be shot until THEY Will fier!!! 😂😂😂

[@BHARGAV_GAJJAR]

I'm assuming in real life push button and torpedo is launched automatically?

[@juancobos4025]

Fire!! ....and the ship is now in Alaska. Jajajajjj

[@charlesbowman129]

Sure would be nice if they made the sailors speak clearly instead of mumbling.

[@ВиталийСмокотов]

Долго торпеду готовят.

[@Defoggers_4545]

Вот кто рашистов остановит! Украина с вами!

[@Dr.Pepper001]

Russian and Chinese spies thank you for this info.

[@Dra741]

Load that mothers

[@Yama00]

WHY ARE THEY MANUALLY LOADING THOSE THINGS IN THE TUBES? EVERYTHING SHOULD BE AUTOMATED IN A SEPARATE COMPARTMENT VIA VIDEO MONITORS. THIS SEQUENCE IS UNNECESSARY AND DANGEROUS SHOULD SOMEONE MAKE A MISTAKE. YOU PUSH A BUTTON, THE SYSTEM JUST DROPS IT OVER THE SIDE OUT A SIDE SLIT AND OFF IT GOES. THAT'S IT.

[@SaltiDawg2008]

Moron!

[@zacharyking900]

Well, we're screwed in the next war. Too bad there aren't any WW2 submariners to show you how it's done.

[@mokomothman5713]

idiot