About an earlier comment, collision with a surface ship.
When the USS Kitty Hawk collided with a Soviet submarine.
[video=youtube;ACSzlEX362o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACSzlEX362o[/video]
Submarines "sprint and drift", similar to infantry tactics.
AT SEA WITH 'THE SILENT SERVICE'
Oops. I think Ivan was trying to do something cool like take pictures of a capitalist aircraft carrier hull or screws, good brownie points but they broached and got creamed. As Dirty Harry said, "You have to know your limitations".
Ivan was "counting coup".
It's what we do.
Gotta show "them" that you can seek in.
Those are the kinda stories I'd love to put in here.
But can't.
I wonder if a coup counts if you get touched(too-shey-ed, haha) and have to be towed into port by a skimmer.
Another subject, a third submarine to be named USS Barb. SS220, SSN596 and soon the SSN804. It's kinda cool.
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/P...JkYP6PAQzXga68rSoafQZgCkc_gjZt3oAwvFTEzOigsU/
I read about the new Barb.
I think it's great.
I often think the ship naming system got all messed up.
There was a system, and by the name you could tell the class of ship.
But then they made exemptions.
Then changes.
More and more.
I hated it.
WWII subs were named after sea life.
Then early FBMs were named after early Patriots.
Later FBMs named after States.
688s named after Cities.
Skimmers also had conventions. Then things got all mixed up.
Pre- Government Purchase Card (GPC) days back in 1992 at Tyndall AFB, Panama City, FL (although the Civil Engineers who were developing the grandfather of the bomb robot had one by then) there were a grand total of four of us who could approve the Standard Form 44 purchase order (like a GPC only less convenient). If you've heard this one before don't stop me. I want to hear it again
One day we get a call from Contracting (they hated us, we hated them) because they'd been called by some lawnmower shop in Panama City Beach (not exactly across the street from Tyndall, a pretty good drive) about not being paid for a purchase. We all looked at each other and said, "Who? Where? Never heard of them!"
So we go through all our logs. Every SF 44 is accounted for, none for Joe-Bob's Lawnmowers, Bait, Tackle, and Shrimp Emporium (OK, I made that up.)
Back in those days there was a Club-Fed prison on Tyndall. The Department of Corrections had the same SF 44 program that we did. The DoD and the DoC were completely separate, Club-Fed was not a tenant on the base and received no support from base functions such as the 325th Supply Squadron. Among other things the prisoners mowed the grass around the base (so they had a lot of lawnmowers...)
Instead of having a DoC employee handle this, some .gov (gov. back then) type decides to let a prisoner coordinate with the business in PC Beach. The freakin prisoner (minimum security, probably in prison for scamming) scammed Joe-Bob's Lawnmowers, Bait, Tackle, and Shrimp Emporium for the lawnmower parts!!
I helped.
And we had some brass on board when we went to sea to make our 1,000th dive.
Went to sea special for it.
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