Attack submarines

Amphibious Task Force East Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion (with Nassau Amphibious Ready Group) Coast Guard cutters (2) and patrol boats (4) -690 Coast Guardsmen. RED SEA Attack submarine Boise... 

Principal characteristics of Subroc are length 20 6" (6-25m), max body diameter l 9ff (0.533m), launch wt, approx 4085 lbs (1853 kg), range 25-35 miles (40-56 km), and speed supersonic Subroc became operational in 1965, and continues to arm high-speed nuclear attack submarines of the US Navy in world-wide service. Each ship carries 4 to 6 Subroc missiles Refs 1) M.J.H. Taylor J.W.R. Taylor, Missiles of the World , Charles Scribner s Sons, NY (1976), 142 2) R.T. Pretty, Ed, Jane s... 

The subcommittee visited the nuclear attack submarine, USS Dallas, docked at the Navy s submarine base in Groton, Connecticut. Several members of the USS Dallas s crew were helpful in giving a crew s perspective on conditions aboard a submarine. The subcommittee members found the tour to be valuable to its work. 

The Navy operates 18 fleet ballistic missile submarines and 56 nuclear attack submarines. Because of the confidential nature of the submarines, no information on the corrosion aspects could be obtained. 

Attack Submarine General-purpose military submarine designed to hunt and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships. 

Submarine development and construction involves a number of industries. Besides shipbuilding, submarines, especially military ones, require specialized equipment and materials to operate in their harsh underwater environment. Submarines need special hardened steel to survive the crushing depths, sophisticated communications and electronics gear, and modified weapons systems that no other naval vessel uses. None of this is cheap. The standard ballistic missile submarine of the U.S. Navy, the Ohio class, each cost more than 1 billion, and each of their twenty-four Trident D-5 ballistic missiles costs 29 million. The most modem U.S. attack submarine, the Virginia class, costs 1.8 billion. That high cost limits the number of submarines that a navy can acquire. Consequently, only a few countries can afford submarines, especially nuclear-powered ones. 

Bushnell s submarine (David Bushnell) Bushnell builds the first attack submarine used unsuccessfully against British ships in the Revolutionary War, it nevertheless advances submarine technology. 

In the past, hydrogen peroxide was used, sometimes fatally, as a torpedo fuel. On August 12th 2000, the Russian nuclear attack-submarine Kursk was taking part in a naval exercise off the Kola Peninsula near... 

Rutherford was knighted in 1914, and during World War I he made the Manchester laboratory into a center for research on defense against submarine attacks. His former assistants, Marsden and Geiger, didn t participate in the research, however. They were both on the Western front, on opposing sides. 

The Buccaneer, with its capacity to carry nuclear weapons, was central to the Admiralty s vision of the aircraft carrier as the modem equivalent of the capital ship. In a remarkable paper, dated 2 March 1954, the Admiralty set out its views on expected trends in naval weapons down to the end of 1965. The news of the American hydrogen-bomb tests came too late to influence the paper, which, however, assumed that atomic weapons would be plentiful that the importance of air attack would increase but that long-range detection of submarines and torpedo countermeasures would reduce the underwater threat to surface ships. It was predicted that by the 1960s carrier-borne aircraft would carry nuclear weapons and would contribute to the strategic air offensive aircraft and 200-mile-range anti-ship missiles would have begun to... 

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