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Would it not be easier and cheaper to just <span style="font-style: italic">sub-let</span> the USN for boats?!? :jester:
 
DrEntropy said:
Would it not be easier and cheaper to just <span style="font-style: italic">sub-let</span> the USN for boats?!? :jester:
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Actually it's more like the clean cut friend who always hitches a ride, never offers to pay for gas but every once in awhile gets you into a club that you otherwise wouldn't because he's so trustworthy looking. :whistle:
 
Subpar submarines? Insubordinate ordinance? Some substandard subcontractor! On that subject, it seems subsuming these subs has lead to subduction. It may be wise to sublimate the desire for a subsitute. Or perhaps some subsequent supplication?. Eh, J.P.? --elrey
 
*groan*

I've been sublimely torpedoed.

*THUD*
 
This went on for a long time on some of the SubVets forums.
Aussies defending the Collins Classes, the Brits and Canucks defending this lot...and not one of them can give the on-time performance of a 3-or-4 Fairbanks-Morse engined GATO class.

Now, it's been a while.....but one of the "fish" we stocked on board needed extra guides or a sleeve to be inserted into said tubule first.

This is NOT rocket science....it's Torpedo Science, and there is a BIG difference!
 
TOC said:
.....This is NOT rocket science....it's Torpedo Science, and there is a BIG difference!
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I read somewhere that some torpedoes (maybe WW II) were propelled by radial piston engines (similar to old airplane engines) and that they ran on heavily oxyginated fuels. Have you heard that?
 
Torpedo Juice and steam, yeah. Used to mix Torpedo Juice with Bug Juice and make Gilley.....and get blotto in the middle of The Pacific.

My time, we had MK37's, 45's, 48's, electrics, mostly, and then there were SubRocs.....OMG....solid rocket propellant.....should one accidently light off, or get a "hot run", you'd melt the back half of the boat off.

Early, early ones used some kind of vane piston motor, like a 14 or 16, but before my time.
 
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