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Wrabbit2000
reply to post by SadistNocturne
OP, I'm probably going to sound like an idiot for asking ...but given how secretive and 'silent' the "Silent Service" tends to be, I won't feel too bad. Do submariners on modern submarines not have a general awareness of their position in the world? Obviously, in decades past, such information would have been a pain in the butt just to pass along, if no other concern existed about it. These days though?
Or is that just the movie version of what life on a modern sub is like?
I'm just wondering what Ocean and area, if he knew? Even a ballpark idea? A week travel makes for a big big circle of uncertainty...but 400 foot of depth narrows it considerably.
miniatus
I can totally believe underwater military bases exist.. and if they don't I'd be surprised because it makes perfect sense, it also makes them extremely difficult to detect, it protects them from satellite imaging and it also makes them extremely difficult to attack with conventional weapons.. We'd be fools if we didn't have bases like that.
AmberLeaf
Its true, i went to one myself a few years back, i cant say much more other than yes they are real and some are much deeper than 400ft.
Bedlam
There are secret sub docks in big rivers. I used to work in a place that had one. You couldn't get a boomer in there but it would hold an attack sub. At one time, it was a big annual deal when the sub went up the river to dock in the mystery submarine facility, back in the 50s. But as the years went by, they quit covering it. The subs came in anyway. We had a big fab facility to make parts and stocked a lot of stuff for them, had big diesels to provide shore power, and secure comm facilities.
I could easily see something like this.
SadistNocturne
Anyone have anything they can add to this ?
- SN
MDDoxs
reply to post by MarsSentinel
Care to offer some constructive insight?
THanks buddyedit on 23-9-2013 by MDDoxs because: (no reason given)
MarsSentinel
I do.
I worked submarines for over 30 years.
This is bogus.
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