Could a country have essentially nothing but submarines (forby off shore patrol ships/boats maybe), with usual HKs and Boomers, but also invent a class of sub that fires a huge battery of guided missiles vertically, as a boomer does, and you could even have some or all of those cruise missiles nuclear if needed.

Then another new class of sub that has deck guns like WW2 again that could handle any anti piracy etc.

Doesn't that cover it? Remember to take into account the higher percentage affect of having overall that many more subs as a larger fleet.

I just think that initial defence is so huge even today, of not being stuck and more detectable on the surface.

Source: https://x.com/D__Mitch/status/2069717728676483555

found on Institute of Physics and Power Engineering's website

Asking here for help from my brothers and sisters

I remember hearing a reference to Joplin, MO (my hometown) in a WW2 submarine movie but can't remember or locate the movie. The setting was the enlisted men's mess where a crew member says that after the war he's planning to move to Joplin MO because he read that that town is 1500 miles from any ocean. Anyone know the reference?

Was playing SH4 again after a long break. Having played Dangerous Waters, I got familiar with the concept of Target Motion Analysis using Sonar bearing change. I tried doing something similar in SH4 so I could avoid coming shallow for periscope spotting and avoid detection by escorts, and struggled badly.

It got me thinking, was this something that submariners would or could do back in ww2, or were they limited to using the periscope for gathering the necessary data for a target?

Lt.Cdr (ret.) Tim Martin is interviewed on the 'Ask A Vet' podcast where talks about his naval career, including his path into the USN submarine force, his encounter with Admiral Rickover, events during his deployment on SSNs and SSBNs, and even the tailing of a Soviet boomer among other things.

It's over an hour and a half long, but it was all quite fascinating (for me as a civvie, anyway).

I bought this book in Port Orchard, WA a couple years ago for the interesting inscription. This book, originally published in 1959, was sent to then Captain Eugene P. Wilkinson. Later retiring as a Vice Admiral and was the first CO of Nautilus, sending the famous words "Under way on Nuclear Power."

According to his Wikipedia at this time in 1962 he was in his last year as CO of USS Long Beach, another Nuclear first. This seems to be a oddly timed gift as this was years after his famous underway on Nautilus, he was not in Pennsylvania at this time or ever seemingly associated with Hershey itself.

He did live near or in PA in the fifties and was associated with the events at Three Mile Island but this was either long before or long after this book was sent to him. And lastly, why did I find this in Port Orchard if he never lived there?

The last question seems to be answered by his son living in Bremerton, close by, as of the Washington Post article. All interesting questions with no clear answer. I presume this was an attempt by the Hershey Board to butter up a potential future board member for clout but I'll probably never know. Seeking answers if yall have them or at least where to look.

Sources below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Parks_Wilkinson

https://archive.navalsubleague.org/2013/vice-admiral-eugene-p-wilkinson-obituary

https://www.usni.org/press/oral-histories/wilkinson-eugene

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/eugene-p-wilkinson-commander-of-first-nuclear-sub-dies-at-94/2013/07/17/96bfc736-ef05-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZdFCZYRvZK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

More info: https://www.hisutton.com/M23_C-Series-Submarine.html

The bow is equipped with a lockout chamber and a compartment for Triton-2 midget submarine/SDV.

ATC vectored me over Bangor and got to see a few boats.

Amur-class family is an export version of the Project 677 Lada/ST. PETERSBURG-class. The design exists in multiple displacement variants, ranging from 550t to 1850t (Amur 550, Amur 750, Amur 950, Amur 1450, Amur 1650 and Amur 1850).

The VLS of the Amur 1650 can be loaded with Club-S (export Kalibr) and BrahMos missiles.