In a world of tiktoks and UA-cam shorts it's always amazing that Johnny is able to consistently make these 30 minute videos and still hold our attention Amazing editing!!
@@Lidemann92 Using apps like Tiktok is just so stupid. It's an incredible time sink and destroys your attention span. Goodluck being productive if you can't stay focused for long because your brain has been messed up by Tiktok.
I mean, just think about it. There are underwater cables that connect the US to Europe which is just crazy to think. I have no idea how on earth they were made, but that would be an interesting topic to learn about.
google it already they have so many good info. it was usa and england first established I think. they work normally cool with time to time maintenance to say briefly.
I served 23 years on the boats. Started with the WW2 diesels that used the snorkel to supply air for the engines, moved to the nuclear fast attacks and finally to the missile boats. It is interesting that I lived through all of those things you talked about and yet still found your video worth watching. Congratulations on a job well done.
@@shellracer3189 close all the windows in your house and disconnect the internet and data, that’s what it’s like. Obviously smaller but you get use to it pretty quick
@@shellracer3189 you stand 6-8 hours of watch, then have 6-8 hours of like either maintenance, or you time which usually people will play games, talk, workout or sometimes sleep extra or work on projects or other stuff related to work, then you have 6-8 hours of designated sleep time. So yes it is very boring 🤣 usually you have some HDDs with a lot of stuff to keep you entertained or cards and board/video games
What I love about Johnny Harris' videos is that they always feel like a friend that grabs me by the forearms, wide eyed, and whisperly shouts "you won't believe what I've just read!" Just makes me forget how many hours of research, scripting, and editing went into making these awesome videos.
The coolest thing about submarines that i know about is that the design of each propeller is confidential as it can be used to isolate their sound profile, which is why you will see subs all the time in dry dock and a tarp over the tail
Also every submarine has an Odd Amount of Blades. I can’t remember why, but any subs with an even amount of blades makes way more noise and is also less efficient as one with an odd amount
I was a missile Submariner on USS Florida in the 1980s when she was brand new. New Subs dont smell new like Cars. They actually smell bad until your nose gets use to the odor.
My grandpa was a crewmember on the U.S.S. Nautilus around the latest 60's to early 70's. He taught me an appreciation of these silent goliaths and the amount of power they have. It's so cool to see someone get excited about submarines the way I do
back in 2019 I wondered how big submarines were, then was amazed to find out that they can be as big as sky scrapers. Air craft carriers are like several city blocks. If technology keeps advancing then people will have stationary bases under water.
One thing i wonder is how loud is it inside? I got to be on a frigate and was shocked at how loud the environment was.. Almost like in an industrial factory
Former NAV ET here and yeah submarines are cool, unless you're on one xD. One of the most rigorous and stressful jobs on the planet. I don't think I will experience something even remotely that difficult again and I'm glad.
The people who invented subs are genius The people who built them are skilled The people who navigate them are cunning The people who they target are....toast. You could do a whole video on each group of people because there are a lot of Rabbit holes involved in every aspect. Well done on explaining the submarine I learned alot from your videos. Thanks 👍
My favourite submarine story was the HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant collision. A British and a French submarine bumped into each other in the English Channel. That's it. It's like two thieves trying to sneak past each other in a pitch black alley way only to walk directly into each other because neither could see the other.
I like the one about the Russian sub captain in the Pacific that got too close to the bottom of an American warship which accidentally ran over the sub, spinning it once, they believe. The sub left a chunk of its propeller in the hull of the U.S. ship. And yeah, that one did really happen. koff
My fav submarine story is the one where they had their nuclear power over heat. The nuclear weapons over heated n created a nuclear explosion under water. Thus creating a tsunami that destroyed a nuclear power plant in japan.
Yes Johnny! I would be more than happy for you to 'dive' down the sub spying rabbit hole. I mean I'm happy to watch more or less all of the stuff you make for us anyway, but, and I'm sure I'm not just speaking for myself, I think a lot of us must love you not just for your detail but your unusual yet fascinating choice of subjects. You make me feel like I'm learning about stuff that's dangerous to know lol.
I lived that life for ten years and its still entertaining to hear about it on your channel. I would really love your take on Admiral Rickover. He was a legend amongst submarine nukes. Especially because he wasn't just given the go ahead to but nuclear plants on submarines. It led to the abomination of the uss enterprise with it 8 submarine nuclear reactors. The only of its kind out of his defiance to produce a nuclear carrier instead of a submarine. It was said that the enterprise was supposed to be so absurdly expensive that it would never be built. Of course it was built anyway. Rickover also obtained funds for his reactor prototypes via "creative ways" when his research projects were denied.
El español Isaac Peral inventó el submarino eléctrico pero a diferencia de vuestro protagonista el proyecto no pudo llevarse a cabo de forma satisfactoria y acabó en manos de potencias extranjeras, es decir, en la vuestra. Si aquello hubiera fraguado tal vez algunos videos de Johnny como los de Filipinas, Puerto Rico, Cuba... tendrían otro formato. Sí es importante innovar, pero igual de importante es robar. A nadie le importa que la Coca Cola se inventara en España hoy es de USA, por poner un ejemplo más dulce, la cuestión es que antes o después tendréis que enfrentaros a vuestra historia real, no a la creada por ser los vencedores y cuando eso pase algunos de vuestros héroes se convertirán en villanos, y algunos que consideráis villanos serán héroes. La historia es implacable.
I find it absolutely insane that the main factor that keeps humanity from annihilating itself is different groups of humans divided by arbitrary borders holding a knife at each others throat at all times.
And, yet, it mostly works. For the entirety of the first cold war, the east and west sat with guns to each other's heads. This forced everyone to negotiate and compromise.
@@The_Viscount not only that but the fear was a shared experience on both sides. we thought Russia was big mean but they were just as terrified. and it was actually one of those underwater cable hacks that made the Americans realize how scared the soviets were themselves that led to the talks to finally start the end of the cold war.
Yeah and it seems like all it would take would be a country with this capability to have some sort of despotic tyrant who does a “suicide by cop” to potentially end everything for everyone everywhere.
It's amazing how he's suddenly made me really interested in submarines. He doesn't just explain their importance, he goes into depth about every topic he discuses and it's amazing.
Wanna hear something that utterly ups the terrifying nature of nuclear submarines? I was cleaning out my ex’s car some years ago, and found some documents from her ex, who had served on an ICBM submarine in the US navy. One mentioned a dishonorable discharge from his military service. I was curious as to how he had managed to get a dishonorable discharge, so i asked. Her answer changed the way i view the world forever. Homeboy had been selling his fellow sailors LSD, while on active duty. I mean, i thought that scene from Apocalypse Now was wild, but hearing this story was mind blowing. People with their fingers on the doomsday button, tripping balls on acid in a compressed metal tube with no windows. True story.
Yep, heard the same thing within the Australian Navy. LSD is huge in the military because its not detectable via drug testing... Who knows what tripping balls on a sub and not getting caught is like, cannot imagine anything worse
Do more about submarines! I had a relative who served on a boomer class growing up. They are fascinating, and absolutely do not get enough credit for how important they are
The whole point of johnny is geography type shit.. when we get an out of the blue video lifting the curtain on something random we just “ooohh ahhh, thank u J!” Not try and turn this into a ice cream machine channel 😅 Much love Freddie! Hope your day is awesome
one other video...from a few years ago...Johnny delving into the mysterious case of why the McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken. That was my first Johnny Harris video. The video that got me hooked was the video on how Russia would most likely invade Ukraine based on publicly available information, thorough research in Russia/Ukrainian relations and history, and information driven inferences....a few days after I watched the Johnny Harris video....Russia invaded Ukraine by rolling in their armor and troops to my horror. But I was well informed and mentally prepared to process this horrid news in advance thanks to this channel. Slava Ukraini and thank you Johnny.
Once while in the US Navy, my ship did an emergency underway replenishment (parts or something I wasn’t privy to) for a Ohio class boomer. I was on watch when this thing rose up behind us and came along side. It was shockingly massive and fast. Like a monster shadow moving under the water.
Correction: Using certain types of resources that are available to fight over other types of resources that we actually need to survive. Using steel or uranium isn't wasteful. You don't eat uranium or need uranium in your daily life, do you? How about steel? Do you eat steel?
My son retired from the SECRET SILENT SERVICE after 20 years. He gave me a tour of his sub and the tight quarters the submariner’s live and operate in daily. It takes a different kind of person to be underwater in a metal tube for days and months - a really brave kind of man.
There have been cases of men going mad and not causing a mutiny, but just outright freaking out having a panic attack because they are hundreds of feet underwater with no escape or ability to leave till they resurface. It's a fear not many humans get to experience because not many people get to be on subs. I've been told it's like the fear of an airplane but 100x worse because their death can be instant rather than having time to parachute out, and you can't swim out compared to jumping out of an airplane; YOU ARE THERE until the sub resurfaces.
@@PrestonGarvey69 thanks for that dose of truth, I ask that we pray for the crew and all the deployed right now. Pray the submariners don’t freak out because there is no out. They vet the guys good before they go under so they can do it! Stay strong out there y’all!
Countries keep the geometry of the propellers of their submarines top secret because they generate the majority of the noise. Somebody detecting that noise could interpret various parameters if they also know the diameter, number of blades, blade shape, direction of the prop. Every unique prop is like a signature for the submarine and can be catalogued by opposing intelligences to determine the mission capabilities of whichever enemy vessel they encounter.
He inspired me to make better videos, which will be coming within a year. Soon many more youtubers like myself will be producing at a similar level. We were headed that way, but he's probably helping to motivate the next class of youtubers. It's coming!
Great video! My Dad was on the USS Andrew Jackson in the 60s and 70s during the cold war. He ran the nuclear reactor on it. He didn't tell us much about it and always said "If I told you then I'd have to kill you." Today I wear the peacoat that he wore while standing on the deck of it during a surface in god knows where that was. 100% wool, made in 1966 and still durable af.
more submarine videos! this is one of the most fascinating dives into a topic i never knew was interesting to me i've ever seen on this platform. your writing, editing, direction, research.. everything comes together so well to create the most engaging long-form informational content i remember watching
Back in the 90's, my dad was on a fishing trip with a friend and a submarine surfaced which flipped their boat. My dad spent the night in the ocean and was rescued the next day.
This has to be one of my favorite videos you've made. The animations, the submarine building side-story, plus I never realized submarines played such an important role in politics. Great stuff johnny
I loved working on and it was an exciting thing to do I'll never forget things I saw and experienced it's amazing they're looking out for us as long as things keep escalating we just got to be a way a better way I know there is.
Completely agree. Just commented that ... Not sure what it is specifically, and I've watched all of them, but this was just so good. Fascinating topic, and amazing effort from Johnny and his crew. Scary though ... Like terrifying.
I'd honestly be really interested in a video about how submarines spy. The example you gave is one that I never would have even have thought of but is genius, and it would be brilliant to see more!
You might try the 1998 non-fiction book “Blind Man’s Bluff” by Sherry Sonntag, Christopher Drew and Annette Lawrence Drew. I’ve read it several times in the past 25 years, and it’s always fascinated me. My go-to submarine spying book.
I've heard stories that the psych exams for submariners are extremely thorough, given the close quarters and months of never seeing daylight. During WW2, you couldn't even have tooth fillings, due to possible pressure changes. The screening & training of submariners would be an interesting topic.
Screening isn’t too crazy for officer side at least. You interview with an admiral in DC just to check if you’re normal or not. Then besides that it’s just power school (navy nuclear school)
@@Klyptic I did one. It was just a 300 question standard psych eval. If any questions got flagged, a follow up was made with a professional. Although I don't know if that was just because I was a nuke sub vol.
One inaccuracy to note: At 12:08 the Chief of Naval Operations is shown to be Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, however at this point (in 1947) the CNO was FADM Chester W. Nimitz. Otherwise this is a very well-researched and comprehensive video. Another masterpiece by Johnny Harris!
Recently retired Submariner here. It's always cool to see people look into and learn about our ways of life and what we used to do. It's such a small community and I'm glad people find awesomeness in our line of work. If anyone has a question that I'm allowed to answer I absolutely will. Thank you Johnny!
I used to work in a facility that maintained and repaired the W series warheads on these tridents....let me tell you this. If it truly ever came to a full scale exchange it would absolutely be the end of the world. I left that job and work in a grocery store now. Less stress. Less fear. More peace.
Problem with some of you is that you have never known how resilient the earth and humans are, God created this world ,and no one ,I mean no one will ever destroy it completely, while people thought covid will wipe all of us in Africa, we are still here
I served on the USS Alaska SSBN 732 Trident class submarines from 1987-1991. I’ve launched missiles before and I can tell you the entire boat flexes at launch 🚀
Spar torpedo - nothing new there- we used this type of device on land to take out “pillboxes” called “Bangalore mine” It was A Bomb basically on the end Of a Long pole
I just love how UA-cam randomly recommended this video to me and when I went to the channel's videos, I saw that he uploaded a video about the underwater cables just 2 weeks ago. Love it.
You're impressed that your phone's listening to you or monitoring all your data and it knows what to send you such a liberal you're just like this beta guy in this video
Johnny, you're such a hard worker; I love your stories. I'm always impressed by the exhaustive lengths you expend to tell such fantastic stories ✨ Thank you
Very well made video. From a media broadcaster, you have a serious talent!!! You are able to keep attention while educating folks. Plus, your ability to voice-over and host is a plus. Great Job! Sending an FM shout-out from 90.5 FM , RT
Was open-water kayaking off the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA when a very large sub slipped by underneath me. Saw a faint dark shadow and felt a "swell" as it passed with just the slightest mechanical sound. Very strange experience.
The water must have been deep where you were. I was on a smaller boat than the Ohio class in the 70's and SOP was to surface when inbound at the 100 fathom curve (600 feet).
I know there is at least one base in the Puget sound. My grand parents lived above the Narrows and we could use Grandpas binoculars to watch the ocean going traffic, many were subs. This was back in the early 60's.
I don't know why, but thinking about that passing underneath my kayak, terrifies me to the point where I want to crawl up my own cigar barn and weep silently.
My dad made nine war patrols on US subs in WWll. He started on the R17 a WWl boat. He then did two on the Halibut. He did the first four of the Pampanito. After the war he would sleep under a blanket that was stretched tight from head to toe and completely covered. A submarine way to sleep and not be bothered by the commotion around him. I recall many stories when submariners would party at the house on weekends in the fifties.
My grandfather was a radar operator in New Jersey I believe and according to maybe apocryphal family stories he had discovered the German U-boats that had made it into the harbors or at least super close to East coast & felt guilty for telling his superiors cuz they ordered a strike & sunk them. It’s wild to think how much sympathy & hate on both sides can have for one another.
Fun fact about MIRVs is that not all 12 warheads will be thermonuclear bombs. I don't know the ratio, but there will usually be several dummy warheads in the mix. And while the Mk. 7 blast yield is currently unknown, some (NATO) warheads aren't even "that terrible." The tactical W76 (tho these subs normally only carry one of these) is between 5-7kt and Mk. 4's are from 90-100kt. There is the Mk. 5 with its 475kt but regulations state that a maximum of 8 of these warheads can be fit into a single Reentry Vehicle (so 8 live; 4 dummy). For reference: Fat Man - 21kt, Fission bomb (dropped on Nagasaki) Little Boy - 15kt, Fission bomb (dropped on Hiroshima) W56 -1200kt, Thermonuclear warhead (Minuteman II ICBM)
One of my favorite premises for sci-fi books is when earth as a whole is threatened and everyone just decides to focus all human effort on facing that problem (probably not what would really happen but a nice thought experiment). Just imagining what we could all do if we actually worked together on something other than beating up our neighbors.
I agree, but it's not realistic. The truth is nuclear weapons are never going away. Knowing that, we should want to reduce nuclear war (and war period) as much as possible. As counter intuitive as it is, nuclear weapons and the mutually assured destruction they provide will most likely result in less conflict in the future. If anything, nuclear weapons will probably make humans beat up their neighbors less and allow us to work together more.
Earth as a whole is threatened today. It's called climate change. And what do we do? As species, we continue stubbornly to create value for shareholders and profit-up.
@@elagrion What do you recommend we do instead? Just flip the switch on fossil fuels and stop using them today? I support being environmentally friendly and reducing emissions but there needs to be a realistic path towards a green future. Ending the use of fossil fuels today would cause civilization to collapse. Also, what's wrong with creating wealth and increasing profits?
@@Loothansa I think you just summed up my feelings about this channel. Which also explains why I enjoyed his vids when he was talking about Micky Dees ice cream machines, but I don't enjoy ones that talk about military stuff... To sum it up his videos aren't well researched at all even on surface level but are "packaged" very nicely
I would most definitely love to see more videos on subs, from an extended one on how subs are used to spy around but also for the more little things like how the crew lives on a sub as it can stay under for over three months at a time. What do they eat? Is there any off-time and how is it spent? Ordinary Navy ships get refueled and restocked using support ships, subs don't.
The crew has a rotation of watches, and we have to hot rack. Which means that there are more people on the boat than racks, so we have to share beds. We have regular food, taco Tuesday, pizza, burgers etc. when you are not on watch if you aren’t doing qualifications we play on our switches, card games, cribbage. Watch movies, regular stuff
Smarter every day has a good series and the Channel Sub Brief has multitudes of videos about specific subs and ships/history/ world naval operations etc.
As a former submariner this is an awesome video. Brings me back to an amazing time in my life when I was doing some awesome stuff. No one does it better than a submariner.
My old man was a submariner for over 20 years. I have no idea how he did it, but I remember when I was around 12 years old taking a family tour of the boat how crazy it was to me the idea of living in those quarters for months and months at a time. Hats off to the squids of the Navy
Just a note; fast attack subs are also called Hunter-killer subs and are made for sinking other submarines or surface vessels as well as protecting friendly ballistic missile subs and surface vessels. Some modern fast attack subs also carry the capability of launching cruise missiles as well as advanced surveillance equipment which allows them to fill a multi role niche. The ballistic missile subs also have advanced surveillance equipment but their main purpose is to be ready on station to fire missiles if needed. At least that’s my understanding of it.
@Julian G Only Hollywood idiots & Civilian basement morons use the term “Hunter-Killer”. We (Actual “Qualified Submariners” like myself - STS1(SS), SSN-653) don’t use it because it sounds like a crap Video Game or a POS B-Movie. It’s always been “Fast Attack”. You’re also incorrect about a Fast Attack’s’ capability of shooting Cruise Missiles;ALL Fast Attacks, not just “some”, have the capability of shooting Cruise Missiles; Boomers can shoot Cruise Missiles as well.
You're correct. Ballistic Missile or Cruise Missile Subs are louder, larger and generally less capable at Naval Combat than Fast Attacks. They're still formidable, but their main purpose is to use Stealth to safeguard the Payload of Nuclear Arms.
As a Russian-Asian, this video is surprisingly accurate. My Russian father was a nuclear scientist who got political asylum in USA, my mother is Chinese from a military family. The stories they told, life changing but life threatening too. Not sure I can ever share. Thank you for your channel Jonny!
"not sure you can ever share"???? rofl yeah russia/china are gonna come hunt your PARENTS down because YOU... UNDER A RANDOM UA-cam NAME... commented about a STORY THEY TOLD DECADES/YEARS AGO..... talk about an inflated sense of self worth rofl
Find it mad how every crazy video I watch on UA-cam there’s someone who’s experienced it or knows loads about it in the comment section everytime and it’s usually one of the top comments. Crazy
You really should cover the story of Eugene Fluckey who wrote about his experience of the second world war in the Pacific being a skipper of the USS Barb (the book - Thunder Below - is extraordinary). He sunk 17 ships including an aircraft carrier, and literally destroyed a train. Oh and he revolutionized submarine warfare by launching rockets from his surfaced sub.
Johnny’s ability to insert humor and levity into a subject such as weapons and vehicles of war and death is unmatched! I’m a bit of a military history fan as I come from a long, LONG line of military servicemen and women. I can trace the history of military service in my family to the American Revolution, and the history of warfare and the technology that has shaped it has always fascinated me. Submarines are definitely one of my favorites, after fighter jets. Johnny does a great job of capturing the curiosity and intrigue of these advanced machines that protect our nation every day.
As an ex-submariner (bubblehead) who served on SSBN-731 USS Alabama, I can neither confirm, nor deny that your graphic on what the Ohio class looks like on the inside is not correct. I can confirm that I do NOT miss the horrible hours that I worked in the engineroom. The best part of my job as an Engineering Laboratory Technician was always being the first on deck, able to breath fresh salt air, after we surfaced.
Wow, this video is truly amazing! I was completely engrossed for the entire 30 minutes. The information on submarines and their capabilities was so informative and eye-opening. I had no idea that they were capable of so much. The presentation was top-notch, and the video production was of high quality. In this age of short attention spans, it's refreshing to see a video that can hold my interest for such a long time. Keep up the great work!
"Move over trees, we got submarines". Fascinating stuff! My respect for the Navy just skyrocketed past the other branches; thank you for silently taking care of us.
@@rudeR6 That’s BS; of course we can “talk about” stuff we didn’t do. We just can’t talk about it with anyone that doesn’t have the right Clearance Level, & the “NEED TO KNOW”. “Wanting to Know” ain’t exactly the same as “Needing to Know”.
I operated nuclear reactors for the US Navy. I got out 15 years ago but I got to see a lot of tech while working in the shipyards. The stuff that we were retiring was mindblowing. The cutting edge stuff I only got wind of but didn't get trained on because my boat was a little older. I can only imagine what they have come up with in the last 15 years.
@@d3vitron779prototype was the best! In SC, or NY? Get on a fast attack, boomers are not all they are cracked up to be. And fast attacks get to do traveling and pulling into ports.
Since Johnny loves maps so much I hope that the next submarine video touches on just how unmapped the ocean floor is and although submarines have radar and sonar to help them “see” it also alerts anyone who might be listening to their location. So submarines find themselves having to perform literal “maneuvers in the dark”. And there was a nuclear machinist mate that died when an American sub hit the side of a mountain. Also it would be great if he goes into the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion
He wasn’t a nuclear machinist’s mate, he was non-nuclear AKA A-ganger. Also… operational subs avoid using active sonar since it gives away their position. Source: I was a sonar technician on 688 class subs
Didn’t realize Johnny had such a big audience of Nordic seafarers that the distance between Iceland and Norway was considered a good representation of distance
On the topic of submarine spying, I recently found out a uk sub snuck into a soviet carrier group and took pictures of the carriers propeller (by knowing what the propeller looks like you can more easily track the ship somehow, something to do with its wake maybe). I didn't realise they could be that stealthy, literally meters away from an enemy ship.
My roommate while I was in the Navy was a bubble head. He worked on the nuclear reactors and had to be there every day at 4am to start the reactors or some shit like that. Hope you’re doing well Mike!!
The video is awesome, but there is something that I need to point out in the beginning of the clip - this is not a rocket, it is a missile. -> The rocket's motion is based mostly on the natural laws of physics - aerodynamics, ballistics, direction of launch, gravitational forces. It is in many cases considered an artillery projectile with a thrust generator in its tail. Once launched, it cannot be guided, so it usually hits the target it's aimed at, as long as this target is reached before the fuel gets depleted. -> The missile is intended for pinpoint precision. You need to make sure the missile hits not just A target, but THE target. Therefore it has several guidance systems and sensors such as GPS, INS, RADAR, heat or radiation-seeking etc. It also has a rocket engine, but it is used only in the initial stage of the weapon. And, since they don't need to be aimed, missiles are almost always launched vertically. -> Here is where the confusion may come. Any vessel which is intended to carry out people or equipment in space, is called a "rocket", and it used to be such for a long time - the rocket sends the package in space and falls back to Earth as, technically, a piece of metal junk. However, the SpaceX Falcon rockets are called rockets, but are actually missiles, since they can be guided back to the launch bay and used again and again.
My ex-husband now, was a U.S. Navy Submariner from 1981-1984. He was on a “boomer” like you are showing. He was aboard the USS John C. Calhoun 630-Blue. It has been decommissioned & taken apart sometime ago. I wish I could remember the “class” of sub it was. He was a machinist mate & worked in the department onboard that was the engine room aka the small nuclear power plant on the submarine. It also carried those “rockets “ as you called them. (They are called missiles.) He did a total of 5 patrols. They stayed submerged almost the entire patrol. He figured out that he spent over a year+ underwater! How he could be submerged without seeing the sun, breathing fresh air, etc. I will never understand.
My father was a submariner for many years. I loved hearing the stories of all the things that you talked about in this documentary. Please make more videos!
Tom Clancy's book, "The Hunt for Red October" remains one of the most accurate depictions of life on a sub and its related politics, thanks to Clancy's close relationships with the Navy. Another of his books, "Red Storm Rising", includes very detailed depictions of sub warfare. And the C64 game of the same name was wildly enjoyable to play as a kid in the 1980s. 😊
You’re probably the best mind grabbing, exciting, story telling, relatable, and just over all cool creator on UA-cam. Thank you man. Every video I find myself pausing and replaying at least a couple of times to grasp some crazy thing you said
Nice work Johnny. I’m a former submariner from the 90s. It is an amazing machine run by some of the best men and now women in the military, hands down. Well done documentary.
I had never thought of that. What gets me is the blithe assumption that they are way more scarier than l thought. I thought that submarines would destroy the universe by ripping apart the very fabric of space and time letting forth the hoards of demons that would swallow all the multitudes of universes in great swathes like a whale devouring millions of krill in one swallow except this goes on for all eternity so l was pleasantly surprised that submarines would only lead to a mass extinction event.
I was fortunate enough to get a tour of an Ohio-class sub, the USS Pennsylvania, while it was in port. It's difficult to describe the scale of a submarine that big... when you're standing on the pier near the sub's sail (the tower on top with the fins on it), the thing already seems massive. But then you look down the pier towards the ship's stern and see the tail fin sticking up out of the water about 400 feet away.... it's truly mind boggling.
@Gene Wells What was your Qual Ustafish? Or was it the actual 637? I always think Class when people mention lead boats, though these days the Navy and “Naval Historians” act as if the 637’s never existed. Really pisses me off.
@@scottrunge4077nobody said he presented anything new, they said it’s top tier journalism, which it is. The way he explained and communicated the video is top tier, made it interesting from start to finish while informing us of it all.
20:05 I love the story of finding the cable was basically like, we need to make sure no soviet fishermen drop an anchor here and rip up the cable so there was a sign in Russian that said “don’t drop anchor here” and that basically just meant “underwater secret cable here”
I live where they’re predominantly built, Groton/New London CT! It’s called “the submarine capital of the world” you can tour the 1st nuclear sub (Nautilus 571) for free!
Johnny is truly a gifted person ... By the way, for more deep into more 'Dark Secret', I recommend you read, "The Dark Secret Behind the Royal Family's Wealth/Empires of Dirt by VICE" ... [It's on UA-cam].
Johnny is truly a gifted person ... By the way, for more deep into the Dark Secret, I recommend you read "The Dark Secret Behind the Royal Family's Wealth/Empires of Dirt by VICE": ua-cam.com/video/ZmcnSs58uVk/v-deo.html
@@olefella3606 Just to let you know that I read 'The Dark Secret': ua-cam.com/video/ZmcnSs58uVk/v-deo.html .., and learnt a heck of a hell lot dark secrets about the dark world we live in than I've ever knew. Thanks man! 🙏
These sophisticated documentary themes of videos and deep analysis are good at facilitating good thought, not the Tik-Tok lunacy as someone else mentioned. Please continue with these.
The scale depiction of that submarine next to the Washington Monument literally made my jaw drop. I grew up in DC and have gazed up at the monument many times… it’s massive. That’s absolutely insane!!
Now would be the time to make your next submarine video since everyone is talking about the submarine that got lost visiting the Titanic, but they're actively trying to rescue the people that were aboard the submarine right now. They're already viral so I think another submarine video from you would do well right now
Narcís Monturiol was a pioneer of submarine navigation who developed the Ictineo, considered the first manned and autonomous submarine, in 1859. He was born on September 28, 1819, in Figueres, Girona, and his design was notable for its anaerobic propulsion system, which allowed it to submerge and navigate efficiently. Monturiol conducted several successful dives with the Ictineo I, and his work predates that of Isaac Peral, who presented his submarine in 1888. The controversy over who is the true inventor of the submarine has persisted, but Monturiol is recognized as the first to build an operational submarine.
Really enjoyed your commentary. Being a submariner myself, I'll give you a lead to help you with the rabbit hole. Start looking into USS Silversides SSN-679. Also USS Parche SSN-683 the most decorated naval vessel.
My grandfather was a submarine engineer and almost lost his life that way. He actually escaped death a second time by being on sick leave when he was supposed to join his new commission - one that sank just two weeks later with all hands supposedly lost.
At @12:40, a clip of a newscast was played that said, re: the need to surface often in a sub- 'The arrival of nuclear power has broken those bonds!' LOL! You see what the writer did there? What a charmingly subtle pun re: nuclear fission! Brilliant.
In a world of tiktoks and UA-cam shorts it's always amazing that Johnny is able to consistently make these 30 minute videos and still hold our attention Amazing editing!!
This comment means the world to me. Thank you
It felt like a movie climax for 30 minutes
It's not the editing, it's him, if there was just some random other person nobody would watch it
The average TikTok user doesn't care for this kind of content, that's why.
@@Lidemann92 Using apps like Tiktok is just so stupid. It's an incredible time sink and destroys your attention span. Goodluck being productive if you can't stay focused for long because your brain has been messed up by Tiktok.
It would be so sick if you made a video about how underwater cables came to be and how they work nowadays.
That would be pretty cool.
I mean, just think about it. There are underwater cables that connect the US to Europe which is just crazy to think. I have no idea how on earth they were made, but that would be an interesting topic to learn about.
google it already they have so many good info. it was usa and england first established I think. they work normally cool with time to time maintenance to say briefly.
@nerdwriter has an amazing video about this.
I was always curious about it
As a former submariner, I can neither confirm nor deny that I enjoyed this video.
Fellow bubblehead here
Aw Tom.....u liked it u rascal u.... ;P
Speaking as someone who snorkeled once, we stand with you
Sensible comment.
Did a tour on a SSBN. Most rewarding experience in my life.
I served 23 years on the boats. Started with the WW2 diesels that used the snorkel to supply air for the engines, moved to the nuclear fast attacks and finally to the missile boats. It is interesting that I lived through all of those things you talked about and yet still found your video worth watching. Congratulations on a job well done.
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As a current submariner, it's appriciated that so many people are starting to realize we exist. Quality video
What's that even like
@@shellracer3189 close all the windows in your house and disconnect the internet and data, that’s what it’s like. Obviously smaller but you get use to it pretty quick
@@SPOcepSS what do you even do all the time like it seems so boring
Is that really appreciated? I mean isn't being stealthy and blending into the background your entire purpose?
@@shellracer3189 you stand 6-8 hours of watch, then have 6-8 hours of like either maintenance, or you time which usually people will play games, talk, workout or sometimes sleep extra or work on projects or other stuff related to work, then you have 6-8 hours of designated sleep time. So yes it is very boring 🤣 usually you have some HDDs with a lot of stuff to keep you entertained or cards and board/video games
What I love about Johnny Harris' videos is that they always feel like a friend that grabs me by the forearms, wide eyed, and whisperly shouts "you won't believe what I've just read!"
Just makes me forget how many hours of research, scripting, and editing went into making these awesome videos.
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The coolest thing about submarines that i know about is that the design of each propeller is confidential as it can be used to isolate their sound profile, which is why you will see subs all the time in dry dock and a tarp over the tail
Also every submarine has an Odd Amount of Blades. I can’t remember why, but any subs with an even amount of blades makes way more noise and is also less efficient as one with an odd amount
Wait,where are you living that you can see subs in dry dock? I would of thought they'd be hidden away if in dry dock.
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One of the Drydocks is in Connecticut
@@srice8959 rotton groton lol
@@jonangelo3705 EB the pinnacle of efficiency lmao.
I was a missile Submariner on USS Florida in the 1980s when she was brand new. New Subs dont smell new like Cars. They actually smell bad until your nose gets use to the odor.
Now i am bit intrugued. But was does new submarines smell like.
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And the Florida is still kickin. Shes breaking all the time but still lethal.
From a current USS Alaska sailor.
I cannot express how I am grateful to the whole team behind these scenes. Kudos to you guys.
for real. such a powerhouse team of smart creative people bringing stories like this to life
Waffle House?
Yeah this is some amazing content
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My grandpa was a crewmember on the U.S.S. Nautilus around the latest 60's to early 70's. He taught me an appreciation of these silent goliaths and the amount of power they have. It's so cool to see someone get excited about submarines the way I do
You can tour that ship. It's docked in Groton. We used to take the kids there when they were small. The museum is a great visit as well.
@@jimmurphy6095 gotta check that out for sure now
Been there & done that. Hubby at that time was a submariner, boomer, homeport was Charleston, SC, went out of Kings Bay, GA.
I toured it, I still found it horrified that if it starts sinking, I couldnt Imagine being underway different kind of human.
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As a current submariner this is probably one of the most informative and entertaining submarine videos on UA-cam. A lot of in depth knowledge
back in 2019 I wondered how big submarines were, then was amazed to find out that they can be as big as sky scrapers. Air craft carriers are like several city blocks. If technology keeps advancing then people will have stationary bases under water.
One thing i wonder is how loud is it inside? I got to be on a frigate and was shocked at how loud the environment was.. Almost like in an industrial factory
@smartereveryday is weeping silently
Former NAV ET here and yeah submarines are cool, unless you're on one xD. One of the most rigorous and stressful jobs on the planet. I don't think I will experience something even remotely that difficult again and I'm glad.
Lol what? It was like goodnight storytime. What was so in-depth?
The people who invented subs are genius
The people who built them are skilled
The people who navigate them are cunning
The people who they target are....toast.
You could do a whole video on each group of people because there are a lot of Rabbit holes involved in every aspect. Well done on explaining the submarine I learned alot from your videos. Thanks 👍
Whats the link to the underwater cables
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My favourite submarine story was the HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant collision. A British and a French submarine bumped into each other in the English Channel.
That's it. It's like two thieves trying to sneak past each other in a pitch black alley way only to walk directly into each other because neither could see the other.
Cough… this never happened… cough
I like the one about the Russian sub captain in the Pacific that got too close to the bottom of an American warship which accidentally ran over the sub, spinning it once, they believe. The sub left a chunk of its propeller in the hull of the U.S. ship. And yeah, that one did really happen. koff
@@ashg7368 lol why would you say this? such a weird thing to do, everyone can just google it and see it is true...
It was in the Atlantic. Submarines don't patrol in the Channel! That's like wandering around on a motorway.
My fav submarine story is the one where they had their nuclear power over heat. The nuclear weapons over heated n created a nuclear explosion under water. Thus creating a tsunami that destroyed a nuclear power plant in japan.
As a US Navy Submarine Veteran, you definitely did your homework. Excellent video, good job!
As a child of a fellow Navyman and Submariner. I'd definitely like to see his unique view on the history of these boats (worldwide) not just America
Stop lying. You worked at McDonald's
I agree, I was expecting to be very underwhelmed.
The way the US Government pays @@collinsoconnor5843, I'd say he was probably working both if he wanted to afford anything 😂
Homework? That they go into space lol
Yes Johnny! I would be more than happy for you to 'dive' down the sub spying rabbit hole. I mean I'm happy to watch more or less all of the stuff you make for us anyway, but, and I'm sure I'm not just speaking for myself, I think a lot of us must love you not just for your detail but your unusual yet fascinating choice of subjects. You make me feel like I'm learning about stuff that's dangerous to know lol.
same!
It isn’t just a rabbit hole.
This
Yes.
101% Agreed
I lived that life for ten years and its still entertaining to hear about it on your channel. I would really love your take on Admiral Rickover. He was a legend amongst submarine nukes. Especially because he wasn't just given the go ahead to but nuclear plants on submarines. It led to the abomination of the uss enterprise with it 8 submarine nuclear reactors. The only of its kind out of his defiance to produce a nuclear carrier instead of a submarine. It was said that the enterprise was supposed to be so absurdly expensive that it would never be built. Of course it was built anyway. Rickover also obtained funds for his reactor prototypes via "creative ways" when his research projects were denied.
El español Isaac Peral inventó el submarino eléctrico pero a diferencia de vuestro protagonista el proyecto no pudo llevarse a cabo de forma satisfactoria y acabó en manos de potencias extranjeras, es decir, en la vuestra. Si aquello hubiera fraguado tal vez algunos videos de Johnny como los de Filipinas, Puerto Rico, Cuba... tendrían otro formato. Sí es importante innovar, pero igual de importante es robar. A nadie le importa que la Coca Cola se inventara en España hoy es de USA, por poner un ejemplo más dulce, la cuestión es que antes o después tendréis que enfrentaros a vuestra historia real, no a la creada por ser los vencedores y cuando eso pase algunos de vuestros héroes se convertirán en villanos, y algunos que consideráis villanos serán héroes. La historia es implacable.
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I find it absolutely insane that the main factor that keeps humanity from annihilating itself is different groups of humans divided by arbitrary borders holding a knife at each others throat at all times.
And, yet, it mostly works. For the entirety of the first cold war, the east and west sat with guns to each other's heads. This forced everyone to negotiate and compromise.
@@The_Viscount not only that but the fear was a shared experience on both sides. we thought Russia was big mean but they were just as terrified. and it was actually one of those underwater cable hacks that made the Americans realize how scared the soviets were themselves that led to the talks to finally start the end of the cold war.
Yes and it's childish.
@@henriksvensson126 the childishness of it is what terrifies me most.
Yeah and it seems like all it would take would be a country with this capability to have some sort of despotic tyrant who does a “suicide by cop” to potentially end everything for everyone everywhere.
It's amazing how he's suddenly made me really interested in submarines. He doesn't just explain their importance, he goes into depth about every topic he discuses and it's amazing.
haha "in depth"
@@goatlib2338 you do better then
@@gbombmr6125 easy, it's a submarine joke hehe
@@gbombmr6125 😑🤨
If you found this interesting, look up SmarterEveryday's videos touring a real US nuclear submarine. It's super fun and interesting
There's no limit to how many submarine videos I'd be willing to watch. Please make more.
Second that. Also a video about how espionage is done through subs.
Agreed, keep them coming haha
What if.........he made NOTHING BUT submarine videos?
Hm? What then?
Yeah, you'd probably like it.... ;P
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@@sumitkhokhar3191 d13.... bingo!!!
Wanna hear something that utterly ups the terrifying nature of nuclear submarines?
I was cleaning out my ex’s car some years ago, and found some documents from her ex, who had served on an ICBM submarine in the US navy. One mentioned a dishonorable discharge from his military service. I was curious as to how he had managed to get a dishonorable discharge, so i asked. Her answer changed the way i view the world forever. Homeboy had been selling his fellow sailors LSD, while on active duty.
I mean, i thought that scene from Apocalypse Now was wild, but hearing this story was mind blowing. People with their fingers on the doomsday button, tripping balls on acid in a compressed metal tube with no windows. True story.
Holy F@&$#
Yep, heard the same thing within the Australian Navy. LSD is huge in the military because its not detectable via drug testing... Who knows what tripping balls on a sub and not getting caught is like, cannot imagine anything worse
Thankfully, they cant just launch the missiles on a whim.
That does not matter at all, these 'heads' can not launch any weapon anyway.
There is no such thing as doomsday button
Do more about submarines! I had a relative who served on a boomer class growing up. They are fascinating, and absolutely do not get enough credit for how important they are
@@adfaklsdjf boomer
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@@adfaklsdjf It's p3wd13c4nc3rfantard level ''humor'' , try again.
The whole point of johnny is geography type shit.. when we get an out of the blue video lifting the curtain on something random we just “ooohh ahhh, thank u J!” Not try and turn this into a ice cream machine channel 😅
Much love Freddie! Hope your day is awesome
Submarines, Doritos, Maps - does not matter what, Johnny and his team always entertain us ♥
Next topic he should tackle about satellite, aircraft carriers, the internet and astronomy. 😁
And Subway....how this sandwich chain has made it's way within deep within South Korean media and entertainment 🤣
one other video...from a few years ago...Johnny delving into the mysterious case of why the McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken.
That was my first Johnny Harris video.
The video that got me hooked was the video on how Russia would most likely invade Ukraine based on publicly available information, thorough research in Russia/Ukrainian relations and history, and information driven inferences....a few days after I watched the Johnny Harris video....Russia invaded Ukraine by rolling in their armor and troops to my horror. But I was well informed and mentally prepared to process this horrid news in advance thanks to this channel. Slava Ukraini and thank you Johnny.
Once while in the US Navy, my ship did an emergency underway replenishment (parts or something I wasn’t privy to) for a Ohio class boomer. I was on watch when this thing rose up behind us and came along side.
It was shockingly massive and fast. Like a monster shadow moving under the water.
@Mike Bauer 😂😂Shockingly Massive? Absolutely. Fast? Uh…No. They can get above 20,but I won’t comment on how much.
BTW, what Year wazzit?
I can only imagine Moby-Dick on steroids :P
was it a missle?
@@bronzebacksnatcher5163 No, it was up to 24 of them all containing 12 warheads each, in one place. And the Nazy has dozens of them.
@@djjazzyjeff1232Only the Nazis did not have nuclear warheads. This time it is much scarier.
Humanity in a nutshell: wasting all the resources to fight over resources.
Correction: Using certain types of resources that are available to fight over other types of resources that we actually need to survive. Using steel or uranium isn't wasteful. You don't eat uranium or need uranium in your daily life, do you? How about steel? Do you eat steel?
My son retired from the SECRET SILENT SERVICE after 20 years. He gave me a tour of his sub and the tight quarters the submariner’s live and operate in daily. It takes a different kind of person to be underwater in a metal tube for days and months - a really brave kind of man.
My son is deployed on one at this very moment. Hurry up and wait (for him to get home). God Bless our Troops! Past, present, future ❤️
There have been cases of men going mad and not causing a mutiny, but just outright freaking out having a panic attack because they are hundreds of feet underwater with no escape or ability to leave till they resurface.
It's a fear not many humans get to experience because not many people get to be on subs.
I've been told it's like the fear of an airplane but 100x worse because their death can be instant rather than having time to parachute out, and you can't swim out compared to jumping out of an airplane; YOU ARE THERE until the sub resurfaces.
@@PrestonGarvey69 thanks for that dose of truth, I ask that we pray for the crew and all the deployed right now. Pray the submariners don’t freak out because there is no out. They vet the guys good before they go under so they can do it! Stay strong out there y’all!
And they are all volunteers.
Countries keep the geometry of the propellers of their submarines top secret because they generate the majority of the noise. Somebody detecting that noise could interpret various parameters if they also know the diameter, number of blades, blade shape, direction of the prop. Every unique prop is like a signature for the submarine and can be catalogued by opposing intelligences to determine the mission capabilities of whichever enemy vessel they encounter.
Johnny's upload rate and consistency of high quality long-form content is unmatched.
He inspired me to make better videos, which will be coming within a year. Soon many more youtubers like myself will be producing at a similar level. We were headed that way, but he's probably helping to motivate the next class of youtubers. It's coming!
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What's the music at 13 minutes
I tried using the song identifier from Google but it couldn't identify it maybe it's some royalty free clip
Great video! My Dad was on the USS Andrew Jackson in the 60s and 70s during the cold war. He ran the nuclear reactor on it. He didn't tell us much about it and always said "If I told you then I'd have to kill you."
Today I wear the peacoat that he wore while standing on the deck of it during a surface in god knows where that was. 100% wool, made in 1966 and still durable af.
awesome man
My parents down mummy bags finally gave up the ghost. Can't beat official military gear for durability.
A tech bro in a vintage peacoat. Yep, that checks out.👍😁
What a great heritage. Thanks for telling us.
And it glows in the dark too!
more submarine videos! this is one of the most fascinating dives into a topic i never knew was interesting to me i've ever seen on this platform. your writing, editing, direction, research.. everything comes together so well to create the most engaging long-form informational content i remember watching
Submarine Espionage please!!
if you like submarines, go watch Smartereveryday video series on them. it's really fucking cool
So damn cool!
@@jeffe_77 Yes! It’s an excellent series.
More sub videos would be much great 👍
Dude, the fact that those missiles use stars for guidance is just incredible to me
That was a joke lol.. they use satellites
@@SA-5247 and what do satelites use?
@@dasa7921They use an orbit and precise clock.
@@SA-5247ICBM use inertial navigation because it can't be jammed like satellite. Not sure where he got the idea they use stars.
@@SA-5247Wikipedia says that there is an astro-inertial navigation system so he's correct.
Back in the 90's, my dad was on a fishing trip with a friend and a submarine surfaced which flipped their boat. My dad spent the night in the ocean and was rescued the next day.
This has to be one of my favorite videos you've made. The animations, the submarine building side-story, plus I never realized submarines played such an important role in politics. Great stuff johnny
I loved working on and it was an exciting thing to do I'll never forget things I saw and experienced it's amazing they're looking out for us as long as things keep escalating we just got to be a way a better way I know there is.
Completely agree. Just commented that ... Not sure what it is specifically, and I've watched all of them, but this was just so good. Fascinating topic, and amazing effort from Johnny and his crew. Scary though ... Like terrifying.
@@waynebonavia7570 Such a low effort video just to hit quota.
I'd honestly be really interested in a video about how submarines spy. The example you gave is one that I never would have even have thought of but is genius, and it would be brilliant to see more!
You might try the 1998 non-fiction book “Blind Man’s Bluff” by Sherry Sonntag, Christopher Drew and Annette Lawrence Drew. I’ve read it several times in the past 25 years, and it’s always fascinated me. My go-to submarine spying book.
@Jim Cabezola Even Red October have some accurate information
I've heard stories that the psych exams for submariners are extremely thorough, given the close quarters and months of never seeing daylight. During WW2, you couldn't even have tooth fillings, due to possible pressure changes. The screening & training of submariners would be an interesting topic.
Screening isn’t too crazy for officer side at least. You interview with an admiral in DC just to check if you’re normal or not. Then besides that it’s just power school (navy nuclear school)
There is no crazy psych exam lol
@@Klyptic there should be.
@@Paul-hp6zp then there would be even fewer people than the already few. Already undermanned and overworked, won't happen
@@Klyptic I did one. It was just a 300 question standard psych eval. If any questions got flagged, a follow up was made with a professional. Although I don't know if that was just because I was a nuke sub vol.
One inaccuracy to note:
At 12:08 the Chief of Naval Operations is shown to be Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, however at this point (in 1947) the CNO was FADM Chester W. Nimitz.
Otherwise this is a very well-researched and comprehensive video. Another masterpiece by Johnny Harris!
Recently retired Submariner here. It's always cool to see people look into and learn about our ways of life and what we used to do. It's such a small community and I'm glad people find awesomeness in our line of work. If anyone has a question that I'm allowed to answer I absolutely will. Thank you Johnny!
Before anyone asks I was a Torpedoman. The rate specifically is responsible for all weapons aboard from rifles and pistols to torpedoes and missiles.
Just yes or no, is the submarine capabilities pretty much the same since cold war?
@@CallsignWombat Thank you for your service, and mad props to you and the other silent underwater sea-nerds.
@@CallsignWombat are you a Troll how many subs do China and Russia have that's modern class nuclear weapons and how many off coastlines
my childhood self is very envious about your service, glad to hear you made it to retirement
I used to work in a facility that maintained and repaired the W series warheads on these tridents....let me tell you this. If it truly ever came to a full scale exchange it would absolutely be the end of the world. I left that job and work in a grocery store now. Less stress. Less fear. More peace.
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@@toziassmitt 🤏🍆
Problem with some of you is that you have never known how resilient the earth and humans are, God created this world ,and no one ,I mean no one will ever destroy it completely, while people thought covid will wipe all of us in Africa, we are still here
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You're just plain delusional at this point, religion doesn't even having anything to do with it anymore.
Grocery store "customers" are more likely to kill you than nuclear missiles.
I served on the USS Alaska SSBN 732 Trident class submarines from 1987-1991. I’ve launched missiles before and I can tell you the entire boat flexes at launch 🚀
Grg20111
Thank you for protecting me
And for your exemplary
Service in the silent service sir!
Spar torpedo - nothing new there- we used this type of device on land to take out “pillboxes” called “Bangalore mine”
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@@oscarprendergast7295 😂😂
I was a JO on USS West Virginia SSBN 736 2019-2022. We nicknamed the Alaska “God’s Boat” cause she won the battle E every year
@@edwardta3202 That’s what’s up mate!
the way those rockets just burst right out of the ocean and blast right off into space is magnificent.!!! super cool !!!!!
I don’t understand how you’re able to make such high quality content so quickly. Love what you’re doing, please never stop
He is funded by the CIA.
I just love how UA-cam randomly recommended this video to me and when I went to the channel's videos, I saw that he uploaded a video about the underwater cables just 2 weeks ago. Love it.
You're impressed that your phone's listening to you or monitoring all your data and it knows what to send you such a liberal you're just like this beta guy in this video
Johnny, you're such a hard worker; I love your stories. I'm always impressed by the exhaustive lengths you expend to tell such fantastic stories ✨ Thank you
I LIKE TURTLES
AUUUUGHHH
Let’s not forget the entire team and the community
Sounds like Mr Harris has only recently started watching ‘Vigil®’.
Very well made video. From a media broadcaster, you have a serious talent!!! You are able to keep attention while educating folks. Plus, your ability to voice-over and host is a plus. Great Job! Sending an FM shout-out from 90.5 FM , RT
Was open-water kayaking off the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA when a very large sub slipped by underneath me. Saw a faint dark shadow and felt a "swell" as it passed with just the slightest mechanical sound. Very strange experience.
The water must have been deep where you were. I was on a smaller boat than the Ohio class in the 70's and SOP was to surface when inbound at the 100 fathom curve (600 feet).
I know there is at least one base in the Puget sound. My grand parents lived above the Narrows and we could use Grandpas binoculars to watch the ocean going traffic, many were subs. This was back in the early 60's.
@@michaelsmith2733 Submarine Base - Bangor, on Hood Canal.
Coooooooool
I don't know why, but thinking about that passing underneath my kayak, terrifies me to the point where I want to crawl up my own cigar barn and weep silently.
I’ve always found espionage and all things spies fascinating. Would love a video covering it in depth!
My dad made nine war patrols on US subs in WWll. He started on the R17 a WWl boat. He then did two on the Halibut. He did the first four of the Pampanito. After the war he would sleep under a blanket that was stretched tight from head to toe and completely covered. A submarine way to sleep and not be bothered by the commotion around him. I recall many stories when submariners would party at the house on weekends in the fifties.
Has he ever cursed about the Mark 14? :D
My grandfather was a radar operator in New Jersey I believe and according to maybe apocryphal family stories he had discovered the German U-boats that had made it into the harbors or at least super close to East coast & felt guilty for telling his superiors cuz they ordered a strike & sunk them.
It’s wild to think how much sympathy & hate on both sides can have for one another.
Fun fact about MIRVs is that not all 12 warheads will be thermonuclear bombs. I don't know the ratio, but there will usually be several dummy warheads in the mix. And while the Mk. 7 blast yield is currently unknown, some (NATO) warheads aren't even "that terrible." The tactical W76 (tho these subs normally only carry one of these) is between 5-7kt and Mk. 4's are from 90-100kt. There is the Mk. 5 with its 475kt but regulations state that a maximum of 8 of these warheads can be fit into a single Reentry Vehicle (so 8 live; 4 dummy).
For reference:
Fat Man - 21kt, Fission bomb (dropped on Nagasaki)
Little Boy - 15kt, Fission bomb (dropped on Hiroshima)
W56 -1200kt, Thermonuclear warhead (Minuteman II ICBM)
Johnny's storytelling skills + new production team = 🔥🔥🔥 And yes, more please 🙏
One of my favorite premises for sci-fi books is when earth as a whole is threatened and everyone just decides to focus all human effort on facing that problem (probably not what would really happen but a nice thought experiment). Just imagining what we could all do if we actually worked together on something other than beating up our neighbors.
I agree, but it's not realistic. The truth is nuclear weapons are never going away. Knowing that, we should want to reduce nuclear war (and war period) as much as possible. As counter intuitive as it is, nuclear weapons and the mutually assured destruction they provide will most likely result in less conflict in the future. If anything, nuclear weapons will probably make humans beat up their neighbors less and allow us to work together more.
I'm sure you read/watched Watchmen but check it out if you haven't because it's right up your alley
Earth as a whole is threatened today. It's called climate change. And what do we do? As species, we continue stubbornly to create value for shareholders and profit-up.
@@Kazimier101 I've heard of it but never watched it. Do you recommend reading it or watching it?
@@elagrion What do you recommend we do instead? Just flip the switch on fossil fuels and stop using them today? I support being environmentally friendly and reducing emissions but there needs to be a realistic path towards a green future. Ending the use of fossil fuels today would cause civilization to collapse. Also, what's wrong with creating wealth and increasing profits?
This is so well researched and the storytelling is top-notch as always. Want more Submarine content please :))))
Not well enough researched to know that radio doesn't work underwater.
Or that British and Dutch has masses of patents on submersibles way before Washingtons attempt for the revolutionary war
@@Loothansa I think you just summed up my feelings about this channel. Which also explains why I enjoyed his vids when he was talking about Micky Dees ice cream machines, but I don't enjoy ones that talk about military stuff... To sum it up his videos aren't well researched at all even on surface level but are "packaged" very nicely
@@adrianmillard6598 Don't they have antennae wires they feed out underwater? Seen it somewhere?
The towed antenna is for ULF ultra low frequency not radio.
Anybody else spot the Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 100 second movement Andante con moto? 12:55 We cellists welcome this addition!
If Johnny get's excited by submarine launched rockets, then he should look up the Sea Dragon. It is incredibly colossal
Except no one has made a sea dragon to date
I would most definitely love to see more videos on subs, from an extended one on how subs are used to spy around but also for the more little things like how the crew lives on a sub as it can stay under for over three months at a time. What do they eat? Is there any off-time and how is it spent? Ordinary Navy ships get refueled and restocked using support ships, subs don't.
The crew has a rotation of watches, and we have to hot rack. Which means that there are more people on the boat than racks, so we have to share beds. We have regular food, taco Tuesday, pizza, burgers etc. when you are not on watch if you aren’t doing qualifications we play on our switches, card games, cribbage. Watch movies, regular stuff
Smarter Every Day has the best video series on these
Smarter every day has a good series and the Channel Sub Brief has multitudes of videos about specific subs and ships/history/ world naval operations etc.
Yes please tell us about the spying tactics!!!!
Any current info is classified for the most part however you can learn more about legacy subs and the lifestyle
As a former submariner this is an awesome video. Brings me back to an amazing time in my life when I was doing some awesome stuff. No one does it better than a submariner.
No one does it deeper.
My old man was a submariner for over 20 years. I have no idea how he did it, but I remember when I was around 12 years old taking a family tour of the boat how crazy it was to me the idea of living in those quarters for months and months at a time. Hats off to the squids of the Navy
Just a note; fast attack subs are also called Hunter-killer subs and are made for sinking other submarines or surface vessels as well as protecting friendly ballistic missile subs and surface vessels. Some modern fast attack subs also carry the capability of launching cruise missiles as well as advanced surveillance equipment which allows them to fill a multi role niche. The ballistic missile subs also have advanced surveillance equipment but their main purpose is to be ready on station to fire missiles if needed. At least that’s my understanding of it.
@Julian G Only Hollywood idiots & Civilian basement morons use the term “Hunter-Killer”. We (Actual “Qualified Submariners” like myself - STS1(SS), SSN-653) don’t use it because it sounds like a crap Video Game or a POS B-Movie.
It’s always been “Fast Attack”.
You’re also incorrect about a Fast Attack’s’ capability of shooting Cruise Missiles;ALL Fast Attacks, not just “some”, have the capability of shooting Cruise Missiles; Boomers can shoot Cruise Missiles as well.
Yes
Pretty close.
Fast attack subs are for reconnaissance and deterrence. Never heard of hunter killer lol
You're correct. Ballistic Missile or Cruise Missile Subs are louder, larger and generally less capable at Naval Combat than Fast Attacks. They're still formidable, but their main purpose is to use Stealth to safeguard the Payload of Nuclear Arms.
As a Russian-Asian, this video is surprisingly accurate. My Russian father was a nuclear scientist who got political asylum in USA, my mother is Chinese from a military family. The stories they told, life changing but life threatening too. Not sure I can ever share. Thank you for your channel Jonny!
"not sure you can ever share"???? rofl yeah russia/china are gonna come hunt your PARENTS down because YOU... UNDER A RANDOM UA-cam NAME... commented about a STORY THEY TOLD DECADES/YEARS AGO..... talk about an inflated sense of self worth rofl
Would definetely love to hear those stories but it's understandable that you can't share them
Find it mad how every crazy video I watch on UA-cam there’s someone who’s experienced it or knows loads about it in the comment section everytime and it’s usually one of the top comments. Crazy
“can’t share it” then why post a comment about it at all lol.
@@garden0fstone736 just to sound cool
You really should cover the story of Eugene Fluckey who wrote about his experience of the second world war in the Pacific being a skipper of the USS Barb (the book - Thunder Below - is extraordinary). He sunk 17 ships including an aircraft carrier, and literally destroyed a train. Oh and he revolutionized submarine warfare by launching rockets from his surfaced sub.
Lucky Fluckey's book Thunder Below really is extraordinarily entertaining. I tore through it in no time.
Johnny’s ability to insert humor and levity into a subject such as weapons and vehicles of war and death is unmatched! I’m a bit of a military history fan as I come from a long, LONG line of military servicemen and women. I can trace the history of military service in my family to the American Revolution, and the history of warfare and the technology that has shaped it has always fascinated me. Submarines are definitely one of my favorites, after fighter jets. Johnny does a great job of capturing the curiosity and intrigue of these advanced machines that protect our nation every day.
As an ex-submariner (bubblehead) who served on SSBN-731 USS Alabama, I can neither confirm, nor deny that your graphic on what the Ohio class looks like on the inside is not correct.
I can confirm that I do NOT miss the horrible hours that I worked in the engineroom.
The best part of my job as an Engineering Laboratory Technician was always being the first on deck, able to breath fresh salt air, after we surfaced.
Wow, this video is truly amazing! I was completely engrossed for the entire 30 minutes. The information on submarines and their capabilities was so informative and eye-opening. I had no idea that they were capable of so much. The presentation was top-notch, and the video production was of high quality. In this age of short attention spans, it's refreshing to see a video that can hold my interest for such a long time. Keep up the great work!
I didn't even realise it was half an hour long until i read this! Such an interesting video about something I'd barely thought about before
The UA-cam channel SmarterEveryDay posted an entire series on submarines.
"Move over trees, we got submarines". Fascinating stuff! My respect for the Navy just skyrocketed past the other branches; thank you for silently taking care of us.
There’s way cooler shit ab subs that just can’t be talked about
@@rudeR6 That’s BS; of course we can “talk about” stuff we didn’t do. We just can’t talk about it with anyone that doesn’t have the right Clearance Level, & the “NEED TO KNOW”. “Wanting to Know” ain’t exactly the same as “Needing to Know”.
As a former qualified submariner I can say this brought back memories. Pretty accurate...
I operated nuclear reactors for the US Navy. I got out 15 years ago but I got to see a lot of tech while working in the shipyards. The stuff that we were retiring was mindblowing. The cutting edge stuff I only got wind of but didn't get trained on because my boat was a little older. I can only imagine what they have come up with in the last 15 years.
Neat, I’m like a week from qualifying at prototype. Can’t wait
@@d3vitron779 just remember, shipmate, it gets better after ORSE.
@@brianr6661 always like those drills that didn't require forward participation! enjoy the pro-pay, steam pigs!
What boat? I was on the Kentucky 2010-2012
@@d3vitron779prototype was the best! In SC, or NY?
Get on a fast attack, boomers are not all they are cracked up to be. And fast attacks get to do traveling and pulling into ports.
Since Johnny loves maps so much I hope that the next submarine video touches on just how unmapped the ocean floor is and although submarines have radar and sonar to help them “see” it also alerts anyone who might be listening to their location. So submarines find themselves having to perform literal “maneuvers in the dark”. And there was a nuclear machinist mate that died when an American sub hit the side of a mountain. Also it would be great if he goes into the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion
He wasn’t a nuclear machinist’s mate, he was non-nuclear AKA A-ganger. Also… operational subs avoid using active sonar since it gives away their position. Source: I was a sonar technician on 688 class subs
@@sainteyegor my mistake. Thanks for the correction. What a shame 😔
Didn’t realize Johnny had such a big audience of Nordic seafarers that the distance between Iceland and Norway was considered a good representation of distance
Americans like to measure that way i guess
Or maybe it was a mistake on the part of one person and not everyone in a country?
i think you can expect people to know where iceland and norway are on a map without them being seafarers
We have these things called 'education', 'attention', 'sense' and 'reasoning' which allows us to understand things better. The U.S should try it.
@@ciellouise8153 Actually you can't expect that of people.
I would love to hear you talk about any and all rabbit holes cos that sounds super interesting pls and thank you ❤
On the topic of submarine spying, I recently found out a uk sub snuck into a soviet carrier group and took pictures of the carriers propeller (by knowing what the propeller looks like you can more easily track the ship somehow, something to do with its wake maybe). I didn't realise they could be that stealthy, literally meters away from an enemy ship.
Has less to do with wake and more to do with sound frequency
@@phormioofathens4774 thanks, I was mostly just guessing at that point.
My roommate while I was in the Navy was a bubble head. He worked on the nuclear reactors and had to be there every day at 4am to start the reactors or some shit like that. Hope you’re doing well Mike!!
I would love to see more videos about both of the endless research moments in this video! This stuff is incredible!
The video is awesome, but there is something that I need to point out in the beginning of the clip - this is not a rocket, it is a missile.
-> The rocket's motion is based mostly on the natural laws of physics - aerodynamics, ballistics, direction of launch, gravitational forces. It is in many cases considered an artillery projectile with a thrust generator in its tail. Once launched, it cannot be guided, so it usually hits the target it's aimed at, as long as this target is reached before the fuel gets depleted.
-> The missile is intended for pinpoint precision. You need to make sure the missile hits not just A target, but THE target. Therefore it has several guidance systems and sensors such as GPS, INS, RADAR, heat or radiation-seeking etc. It also has a rocket engine, but it is used only in the initial stage of the weapon. And, since they don't need to be aimed, missiles are almost always launched vertically.
-> Here is where the confusion may come. Any vessel which is intended to carry out people or equipment in space, is called a "rocket", and it used to be such for a long time - the rocket sends the package in space and falls back to Earth as, technically, a piece of metal junk. However, the SpaceX Falcon rockets are called rockets, but are actually missiles, since they can be guided back to the launch bay and used again and again.
My dad works on a sub for months at a time, so naturally I have learned all I can and I want to say this is an incredibly accurate video! So thanks!
Yea right, he probably works at Subway
Does he like his job? Would he rather be working at a tech startup building gadgets instead?
@@mohamedalkaboom it takes his dad months to make subway sandwich 🦥😂
@@cryora Yeah. He loves it! And he likes the consistency. I don't think he'd be very interested. Sorry
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As a former submariner, all this seems 100% normal to me. I loved and miss every second of being on them!
were you missing when they went over "Silence is Victory" why brag on UA-cam comments? also missing during cyber Awareness training?
You're gonna be making more submarine videos real soon alright.
My ex-husband now, was a U.S. Navy Submariner from 1981-1984. He was on a “boomer” like you are showing. He was aboard the USS John C. Calhoun 630-Blue. It has been decommissioned & taken apart sometime ago. I wish I could remember the “class” of sub it was. He was a machinist mate & worked in the department onboard that was the engine room aka the small nuclear power plant on the submarine. It also carried those “rockets “ as you called them. (They are called missiles.)
He did a total of 5 patrols. They stayed submerged almost the entire patrol. He figured out that he spent over a year+ underwater! How he could be submerged without seeing the sun, breathing fresh air, etc. I will never understand.
My father was a submariner for many years. I loved hearing the stories of all the things that you talked about in this documentary. Please make more videos!
Tom Clancy's book, "The Hunt for Red October" remains one of the most accurate depictions of life on a sub and its related politics, thanks to Clancy's close relationships with the Navy.
Another of his books, "Red Storm Rising", includes very detailed depictions of sub warfare. And the C64 game of the same name was wildly enjoyable to play as a kid in the 1980s. 😊
Red Storm Rising is a great book.
@@martinschmidt4894 Co-authored by Larry Bond. I recommend several of Bond's books. He writes a submarine story as well as anybody alive.
I was on the USS DALLAS FROM 04-08
And ubisoft didn't do anything with it
You’re probably the best mind grabbing, exciting, story telling, relatable, and just over all cool creator on UA-cam. Thank you man. Every video I find myself pausing and replaying at least a couple of times to grasp some crazy thing you said
Nice work Johnny. I’m a former submariner from the 90s. It is an amazing machine run by some of the best men and now women in the military, hands down. Well done documentary.
Fun fact: There are more airplanes under water than submarines on the skies.
I had never thought of that. What gets me is the blithe assumption that they are way more scarier than l thought. I thought that submarines would destroy the universe by ripping apart the very fabric of space and time letting forth the hoards of demons that would swallow all the multitudes of universes in great swathes like a whale devouring millions of krill in one swallow except this goes on for all eternity so l was pleasantly surprised that submarines would only lead to a mass extinction event.
I was fortunate enough to get a tour of an Ohio-class sub, the USS Pennsylvania, while it was in port. It's difficult to describe the scale of a submarine that big... when you're standing on the pier near the sub's sail (the tower on top with the fins on it), the thing already seems massive. But then you look down the pier towards the ship's stern and see the tail fin sticking up out of the water about 400 feet away.... it's truly mind boggling.
i served on the Penn! great boat
I've been down in the basen of a dry dock with one, it makes you realize how big it is even after being inside one for months on end
Swag like Ohio is Ohio class submarine flot on land?
Hey thats my boat!
Pretty darn well done! The Sturgeon was my first boat in the 1980s, and the West Virginia was my last boat in early 2000s.
@Gene Wells What was your Qual Ustafish? Or was it the actual 637? I always think Class when people mention lead boats, though these days the Navy and “Naval Historians” act as if the 637’s never existed. Really pisses me off.
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The last lines were absolutely powerful. Food for thought.
It's incredible we getting this top tier journalism for free. You and your amazing team have my full support, thanks for the great vid.
top tier journalism? there is nothing in this video that is new and he literally is using video from modern marvels.... TOP TIER!!! lol
@@scottrunge4077nobody said he presented anything new, they said it’s top tier journalism, which it is.
The way he explained and communicated the video is top tier, made it interesting from start to finish while informing us of it all.
20:05 I love the story of finding the cable was basically like, we need to make sure no soviet fishermen drop an anchor here and rip up the cable so there was a sign in Russian that said “don’t drop anchor here” and that basically just meant “underwater secret cable here”
Never disappoints with a notification that Johnny has a new video. Great work
I live where they’re predominantly built, Groton/New London CT!
It’s called “the submarine capital of the world” you can tour the 1st nuclear sub (Nautilus 571) for free!
I can´t express just how much I love all the content you guys create
The fact that we get free videos on UA-cam by Johnny Harris is truly a gift. 👍👍👍
Johnny is truly a gifted person ... By the way, for more deep into more 'Dark Secret', I recommend you read,
"The Dark Secret Behind the Royal Family's Wealth/Empires of Dirt by VICE" ... [It's on UA-cam].
Johnny is truly a gifted person ... By the way, for more deep into the Dark Secret, I recommend you read
"The Dark Secret Behind the Royal Family's Wealth/Empires of Dirt by VICE": ua-cam.com/video/ZmcnSs58uVk/v-deo.html
@@olefella3606 Just to let you know that I read 'The Dark Secret': ua-cam.com/video/ZmcnSs58uVk/v-deo.html .., and learnt a heck of a hell lot dark secrets about the dark world we live in than I've ever knew. Thanks man! 🙏
These sophisticated documentary themes of videos and deep analysis are good at facilitating good thought, not the Tik-Tok lunacy as someone else mentioned. Please continue with these.
We need a 12 part series on subs Johnny 😊
The scale depiction of that submarine next to the Washington Monument literally made my jaw drop. I grew up in DC and have gazed up at the monument many times… it’s massive. That’s absolutely insane!!
This is exactly how I felt as a Washingtonian, I was like wait a minute 😅
Now would be the time to make your next submarine video since everyone is talking about the submarine that got lost visiting the Titanic, but they're actively trying to rescue the people that were aboard the submarine right now. They're already viral so I think another submarine video from you would do well right now
Welp...this comment didn't age too well...
The Titan isn’t a submarine. It would be in very poor taste if they made a video capitalizing on the submersible disaster.
Poof. RIPBOZO.
That "submarine" never saw the Titanic before it imploded. Whoever figured out the pressures down that deep misplaced a decimal point or two.
Johnny you and your team’s passion for research and reporting is captivating. I always learn something new in your videos. Well done!
Much appreciated!!
Narcís Monturiol was a pioneer of submarine navigation who developed the Ictineo, considered the first manned and autonomous submarine, in 1859. He was born on September 28, 1819, in Figueres, Girona, and his design was notable for its anaerobic propulsion system, which allowed it to submerge and navigate efficiently.
Monturiol conducted several successful dives with the Ictineo I, and his work predates that of Isaac Peral, who presented his submarine in 1888. The controversy over who is the true inventor of the submarine has persisted, but Monturiol is recognized as the first to build an operational submarine.
Really enjoyed your commentary. Being a submariner myself, I'll give you a lead to help you with the rabbit hole. Start looking into USS Silversides SSN-679. Also USS Parche SSN-683 the most decorated naval vessel.
As someone who researches naval history and tech for a living, I sometimes forget how mind blowing this stuff is to the average person.
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My grandfather was a submarine engineer and almost lost his life that way. He actually escaped death a second time by being on sick leave when he was supposed to join his new commission - one that sank just two weeks later with all hands supposedly lost.
Thank you for sharing this! Just for interest’s sake…submariners would say “all souls lost,” in memory of the lives and service given.
@@bellboots thank you, I didn’t know that! Interesting factoid.
Thresher?
@@bellboots Well Flucky of the USS Barb says "all hands" in his book Thunder Below.
That's absolutely terrifying
At @12:40, a clip of a newscast was played that said, re: the need to surface often in a sub- 'The arrival of nuclear power has broken those bonds!'
LOL! You see what the writer did there? What a charmingly subtle pun re: nuclear fission! Brilliant.