The Submarine Part II Characteristics and Missions of Nuclear Powered Submarines 21410 HD

Made at the height of the Cold War, this Navy film provides an overview of the Navy's strategic undersea capabilities, with a focus on nuclear deterrence. Features footage of the nuclear powered USS Sturgeon (SSN-637), USS Skate (SSN-578) surfacing at the North Pole, the USS Triton (SSRN-586) circumnavigating the world underwater, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the Sturgeon class USS Parche (SSN-683), USS Skipjack (SSN-585), and the diesel powered USS Albacore (AGSS-569), USS Mang (SS-385). The film also shows the launch of SUBROC (UUM-44), an anti-submarine rocket similar to a cruise missile that can be fired through a torpedo tube. Also featured are shots of a Soviet K-class submarine. The USS George Washington (SSBN-598) the nation's first Polaris nuclear missile submarine is also shown, along with the USS Thomas Edison (SSBN-610). The film also features animation to illustrate how the Polaris A-1 missile has been modified in the A-2 and A-3 variants, to have increasingly long range. The new Poseidon missile is also shown. Various submersibles are shown, including the diesel powered Dolphin (AGS-555), the nuclear powered NR-1 (also known as Nerwin), the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center's Autec I (later known as Sea Cliff DSV-4) and Autec II (also known as the Turtle DSV-3), along with the DSRV-1 (Mystic) and DSRV-2 (Avalon) deep submergence rescue vehicles which would be used to evacuate a crew from a stricken boat.
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com

[@jaygreider4753]

I serverd on the USS Forrestal (CVA-59). Carriers always travel with "protection" and supply ships. Also a submarine. Ours was the Skipjack.

[@consubandon]

I stopped dead in my tracks watching this! When the counter at the bottom of the frame reads "00:08:03:00": I have that same murky, old photo that's on the bulkhead in Crew's Mess. And next to it, in the "Certificate of Appreciation" over the officer's shoulder, you can just barely make out the name of the ship if you squint. But at "00:10:52:00" comes the confirmation! All those interior shots for the fast attack portion, in the first half of the film, are MY boat! USS Bergall, fifteen years before I set foot aboard. [This same film is posted twice on KZbin, at kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZomcdKegetSMrJo and at kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmrJpZmenrqAsLs .]

[@myeflatley1150]

24:30 The man on the right was just hit with the "hat trick". He will not be going for "updating".

[@clintlafferty8023]

637 Submariner myself, 679,667,649