WinterBorn
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Just tell us what your rank and official job was on the sub. Wait were you the guard standing watch over the hatch at 400 feet?LOL I can back anything I say with unclassified Navy info from the web, and you still do not have the nerve to post to the group what your sub rank and or job wasAsk the FBI who is smarter than me?LOL I am 55 and can still do 100 mile cycle rides. Can't deadlift more than 400 lbs at this point anymore though my leg press still tops 1100Did you ever wish that you were assigned to an attack sub that actually had missions instead of doing absolutely nothing where you were?So let me get this straight, you watched the sonar man or driver do his job, but never did anything. So your job was absolutely nothing which is what your ASVAB test scores qualified you for.And every enlisted crewmember has a job, yours was what? Laundry like I said, or perhaps kitchen degreaser? Tell us popQualified for what? Cook, laundry attendant, missile counter?Nuclear submarines don't ever run off batteries. the piles use radioactive hot water to heat non-radioactive cold water turning it into steam to turn a turbine that turn the prop and the exhaust steam from the turbine turns a generator to provide electrical power to the boat. That's the reason diesel electric boats are quieter than nuke boats when running on batteries. Don't you ever get tired of being wrong? Ten seconds of Google would stop you from looking like a fool.Again the littoral ships have a high speed clutch bearing design flaw that encompasses the entire fleet of these ships. These ships can hit 50mph as designed. So the issue has nothing to do with either the diesel power or gas turbines, and if Daveman believes that his pieced together from the internet design is better than the current design and he is correct he will be a billionaire shortly. However all he is doing is quoting railroad technology that was invented 50 to 100 or even more years ago which has nothing to do with propelling a modern ship to 50mph today.In WWII several classes of Destroyer Escorts used either diesel-electric, or turbo-electric drives without batteries or oil tankers to carry fuel. They displaced roughly a third of a LCS. It’s not new technology and generators coupled to electric motors are simpler and more fuel efficient than conventional geared drivetrains. That’s because the generators can always run at the optimum speed to power the motors.Dude there is no such thing as what you said which was. "combining the power from turbines and diesels electrically instead of mechanically." How does that happen?No shit, genius. Did you read the article? Did you comprehend it? They're trying to mechanically combine the output power from two diesel engines and two gas turbine engines through one complicated gearbox system. The gearbox is failing, and they don't understand why yet.That makes zero sense, as all electric propulsion systems have mechanical partsSeems like an electric propulsion system would have been far simpler, combining the power from turbines and diesels electrically instead of mechanically.
Imagine an electrical power plant with steam turbines and a large diesel generator. Are all the output shafts ganged together mechanically, or are the alternators from each unit ganged together electrically?
Hint: They're tied together electrically. Matter of fact, every generator online at any given moment feeding power to the national electrical grid are all tied together electrically...NOT mechanically.
My statement makes perfect sense. An electric drive system would be far simpler.
So you have no idea what you are babbling about. But hey it sounded good right?
An electric ship can not charge at the charging station, they would need generators, batteries, and the fuel of an oil tanker to run these so it's impossible. So try again, this works in other situations because one oil drum of Uranium powers the ship for 20 years.
You are correct that electric ship power is not new, and for that reason precisely it has been tested and vetted as inefficient for various reasons, though it does work better in ships that have no need to be refueled as is the case with reactor equipped vessels, in submarines the electric motors can run off battery and be very quiet as there are no generators running to provide the power. So what works well in one situation does not necessarily work as well in another
He should take a little time to research before he posts. Most of the information is out there.
In fact, I would be happy to answer any submarine questions. I qualified in 1981 onboard an FBM submarine.
Again, a little research would do you some good.
To qualify on a submarine means having a working knowledge of every system on the boat and all damage control procedures and systems. You get signed off on every system, from NAV to propulsion, to supply requisitions. Then you have to stand in from of a board of both enlisted and officers and answer any question about anything on the boat. Then a walk-thru with the Capt. You would never be able to qualify.
I still have my "dolphins" and can still sign "SS" after my name on any military or veteran paperwork.
Yes, every enlisted crew member has a job. In addition to that job you stand various watches, from security watch in port to other jobs underway. I stood sonar watch and helmsman/planesman watch. And every crew member has to qualify. It usually takes months, because your various jobs still have to be done.
Well at least you are honest
Yawn
I guess you never served in the military? Or you would know what the term "standing watch" means in this context.
I was the sonar man on watch, and I drove the boat.
Estella is a moron. They know nothing.
So were you a bubblehead, or on a DD?
I was a Bubblehead.
Which boat?
I have several friends who were bubblehead. Mostly attack subs, but one was on a boomer.
Boomers were great duty. More time off than anywhere else in the Navy. But also more time at sea. Never stopping in ports and only rarely surfacing.
Yeah, my attack friends were "3 knots to nowhere, no thanks!"
Thank you for helping keep this country safe!
Thank you.
Yeah, the boomers were not about excitement during the patrol. But when you are 400+ feet below the surface carrying more nuclear firepower than any vessel every carried, excitement seems over-rated. Smooth running and no water in the people tank is good.
Our mission was as a deterrent. We succeeded.
Perhaps you should step up and volunteer for sub duty.
He couldn't pass the psych eval., much less handle the training.
Yeah, good for you. Brute force and massive ignorance should be your calling card.
Submariners, on the other hand, being much smarter than you, follow the old adage, "work smarter, not harder".
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I could expand on that, but then I would have to kill you, and I like you because you are funny
Sad. You post what you claim are facts, and when you get corrected by people who actually know, you resort to personal attacks.
It's ok someone has to wash the dishes
Yes, someone has to wash the dishes. On a submarine. While they also stand watches and qualify in their "spare" time. While they are in a dangerous situation and totally without contact with their family for months at a time.
No. With the info I have given, it would not be hard to determine my real name. And people like you are precisely why I choose to remain anonymous online.