18 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

  1. “The goal was to ensure that, no matter what the emergency, a U.S. Navy submarine’s hull would maintain structural integrity under pressure and the sub would at least be able to surface.”

    Baaahh, that’s nothing. At about the same time the RCN insisted on an even better policy to ensure its subs would be absolutely sink-proof.

    They stay in drydock.

  2. I worked on it before it transfered to the Pacific and helped with the design process for the conversion.

    1. DERise – wow, SDA really does have a wide readership. Where was was the conversion / retrofit carried out?

  3. Jamie…

    Lmao, so true…. Typical Canadian military purchase. Buy old worn out shit and never use it as an effective weapons platform…and the boys are still using an 80 year old side arm…as they wave to 65 year old F-18A’s…all the While spending millions on an overflowing officer corps to look after maybe 12,000 actual Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen.

    Precisely what FRENCH LIBERALS prefer…. Non combatant capable “armed” forces.

    1. The decrepitude of the CF can be blamed on both parties and the aphaty of the average Canuck.

  4. Au contraire….
    Canada has a military designed to put down civil disobedience.
    Why do you think Socks hates Ar15s.
    There’s more ARs in civie hands than C7s in gov stocks.
    Add another 50000 sks, etc

    1. OK so what use is a frigate or an f-18 to put down civil desobidience? Seems the cops have pretty good gear in that department. Including functioning sidearms.

  5. Au contraire….
    Canada has a military designed to put down civil disobedience.
    Why do you think Socks hates Ar15s.
    There’s more ARs in civie hands than C7s in gov stocks.
    Add another 50000 sks, etc

  6. A good article but quite wrong about Thresher. The cause of its loss has been well known for decades.

      1. They got a leak in between the primary and secondary hulls. A few hundred tons of water got in. The water acted as leverage tilting the boat downward. While trying to reverse, the reactor overheated and its shutdown system turned it off. No power. They then went down to pressure depth and imploded.

        This is why all submarines have a switch that disengages all reactor automatic shutdown systems. In a submarine, there are much worse things than an overheating reactor. It’s also why no one builds submarines as long, thin needles.

  7. Something similar happened recently in the sotub China sea. The front of the American sub broke off. They had to travel the pacific on the surface which is a terrible way to go, subs will rock and and forth badly on the surface at any speed.

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