I remember reading a Tom Clancy book where the SONAR techs saved the day by distinguishing subs from organic material. Been way too long can't remember which book.
Nuclear submarines are OP!
Thomas Hill
Christian Barnes
Top-tier nuclear submarines are about as quiet as diesels unless the diesel shuts down everything and just sits on the bottom waiting for something to pass by it. They quiet the cooling system by ensuring that the pumps that circulate water in and out of the reactor don't cavitate. It's cavitation that produces lots of sound, not the mere presence of a pump or impeller.
Older nuclear submarines are a lot louder. Most of those aren't in service any more outside of the Chinese navy, whose Type 091 SSNs are on par with 1960s Soviet Victor Is and whose Type 093s are louder than Victor IIIs.
Lucas Russell
Sebastian Campbell
They need to take on food, so for all intents and purposes stop as often as diesel subs.
The benefit is that it's one less thing to do during refuel operations, which means the whole refit is done much faster. You can even airdrop food into the sea and the sub can collect it.
Kevin Myers
I always had a theory in my head about using YAL-1s (assuming they were actually produced in great enough quantities) to shoot down SLBMs as they were launched assuming you had a basic idea of where a sub was. No idea how realistic it is, though. A boy can dream, though.
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Jace Parker
You mean *really quiet* cooling systems, and strapped with so much sound-proofing it's almost funny.
Propellers, on the other hand, you can't really hide them inside the boat. (Attempts have been made, officially none succeeded.)
Jacob Adams
I'm pretty sure I read a book about a sub with sonar that could find an enemy sub by the difference in background noise even if the sub itself was completely silent; might have been first pic related. No idea if it would actually work or how hard it would be, but people have at least thought about it.
Joseph Wilson
Ian Rivera
I know a guy who worked on a nuclear reactor for aircraft and then became a nuke for subs after he was threatened with discharge for being "unable to perform his duties" when he maxed out his radiation hours. He told me how you're full of shit and he's had to have cancer treatment twice since he got out of the military/now does multiple screenings/year for cancer because of it.
Kayden Peterson
How do seawolfs compare to the virginias?