Royal Navy Oberon SSK Sub Brief
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Royal Navy Oberon SSK Sub Brief is the first in a two part series covering this iconic Cold War submarine.
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We had 2 Oberon class subs here in Chile. The O'Brien and the Hyatt. They served up until 2001 when the Chilean Navy aqcuired 2 Scorpene class subs. O'Brien, S-22, is currently a museum boat at Valdivia. Amazing boat!
Glad your country has preserved it 👍🏻
Those Scorpene boats you have, they are beautiful and silent as hell, Ignacio. Well done, Chilean navy. Greetings from the other side of the Andes.
Do not forget the German boats which preceded the Scorpene class. I supplied the Racal Electronic Warfare Systems for them.
@@charleswhinney3008 Yeah, the Type 209-1400L's. Thomson and Simpson. Interesting boats.
The RCN took HMS Olympus for a trainer and HMS Osiris for parts.We used the stern tubes for beer stores.
When I was a kid in the 70s an Oberon class sub came and docked in my town of New Bedford Massachusetts. I went down to look at it. I was thrilled to see it, as not many subs docked here. One of the only thing I remember was the crew trying to give us sacks of American beer, which friendly Americans had given to them. They said it basically tasted like horse piss, and they didn’t want it,,,
How nice of them. A little watery maybe, but piss? so dramatic
When I was at school my brother and his american friend had a Shandy - the american friend was most concerned abouth whether the shandy was legal :-)!
@@janwitts2688 hey, I come from a region where we make our apple jack from 100% apples, and we have more apple types than you can image. We used to produce over ~ 1,500 different types of apples. Maybe you might be confused by some type of cider brand you think represents all of what we make here.
@@janwitts2688 oh, and also, the beer they were talking about was Budweiser. It’s a crap cheap beer. It’s like the McDonalds of beers. Many people outside of the US think things like Budweiser and McDonalds represents the height of cuisine in the US. This is pure ignorance. We have some of the finest restaurants in the world here, and, if you go into any liquor store here, there are hundreds and hundreds of artisanal beers here I guarantee you’ve never heard of that are far more sophisticated than you’ve ever imagined. Basically,,,, learn more,,, speak less.
@@sc1338 its slang for weak beer, kinda means that it tastes like someone already drank a strong beer and the watery stuff is what they piss out
I was signalman on the bridge of Opportune at the time of the collision with Orpheus. My opinion was that the blame should have been attributed to the Isle of White ferry which ignored warning light signals sent by me and stood on between two submarines in narrow waters!
Submarines are definitely for the young. I crawled through two O-boats in museums, one in Darling Harbour, Sydney and the other in Chatham. I don't remember having to wriggle through holes-in-the-wall on the Australian boat, which was the case in Chatham. I passed on the museum sub in San Francisco opting instead for Alcatraz.
HMAS Ovens was an Oberon-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy. She was one of six Oberons built for the Royal Australian Navy by the Scottish Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, and entered service in 1969. HMAS Ovens is an authentic Cold War-era vessel situated on Fremantle's historic World War Two submarine slipway
I love the non Russian sub videos. Sometimes I forget the US and USSR weren't the only countries putting out capable submarines.
Don't know if this has already been mentioned, but HMS Onyx's ship motto was: "Taurus excretum cerebrum Vinci." Dog Latin for "Bullshit baffles brains."
Went aboard HMS Onyx as a kid at Birkenhead.
My father server on 1 uk and at least 1 Canada Oberon Being in Nato Canada navy would borrow 1 for training. I had to live in uk for 9 months due to being cheaper ship me brother and mom to uk it was cheaper that way. Cause shipping dad back to Canada every 30 days cost a lot money in 1968/1969 time frame. Dad told me 1 story about what happen to uk sub but I save for a book one day. Dad was one of few Canadians that server on all three types of warships/sub Canada had back then. Meaning CV, Destroyer and Subs. Dad wasn't a officer cause he didn't want paper work and so on. But he job on the Subs too was make sure anything with wires it was working repair and designed things as needed. This includes pumps/comm panel/solar/radar/batteries/cooking stoves CTC stuff and so on ya name if had wire it was he job make it work or design it. Oh Canada Subs all 3 are on display now. I was 1 of first civilian to visit Canada sub I bearly remember the trip but i do remember climbing in one I was so young like about 5 or 6 or so.
Another great brief!
Our SBS (.Special Boat Service) are basically the same as your Navy SeALs. Not to be mistaken for 22 SAS (Special Air Service) who are (As they already have a "Boat" Troop anyway), but work in tandem sometimes with SBS and I wouldn't want to upset any of them tbh But there's the difference. SAS mostly Land and air, and are Desert-born are your DELTA I suppose!
An old SAS drinking buddy of mine (when I came home on leave to Hereford) was full of praise for the SBS, 'except when they come onto on dry land' he said 'then they trip over their swim fins a lot'.
Having worked with both on boats I have to say that our exercise bike would be worn out very quickly, and they all ate us out of house and home!
Congrats on 100k
Also i wish i was good enough in school to get a degree and work my way to working in the drawing room for military aircraft development projects
O for old school! Cheers Jive for your time and efforts...
You bet!
@@SubBrief can i email you over some drawing about the raytheon project and their non acoustic noise dampening project...
"Porpoise" "Rorqual" I see what you did there CCP.
Oberon-class submarines were highly regarded even into the 80's and 90's by modern fast attacks.
The Australian O-boats are my favorite variant of the Oberons. Because of their highly risky operations close to Soviet/Chinese/North Korean naval bases and ships.
I was on board Australian Oberon class subs. When the USSR sent a warship to avoid the hydrophones on the ocean floor they would sail the south of Australia, We would sail down and intercept them and come up astern of them. we would take photos of their propellers and record their sound signature. then we would disappear they never knew we were their. My job in the fored torpedo compartment meant I manned the under water telephone during this evolution. very scary knowing their propellers were spinning not very far above me.
Yeah my dad had to inspect one and also trained in 1990's with them he was a Sub Lieutenant on the HMAS Melbourne (FFG-05). Australia planes to buy French or Japanese (Diesel Electric) Submarines UHH :( Why not Nuclear. O- Boats are very cool, Infact in the inspection he found bricks in the torpedo tubes and he regrets not taking one of the bricks to this day.
@@flynndemunck3265 The stern tubes on HMAS Onslow, the one at Sydney maritime museum when I was on board we had our beer stored in there but the stern cap on the tube was leaking sea water. So I was told to climb inside the tube and pass the cartons of beer out. I had to lay there and lift them over me and push them out the last bit with my foot. we were at about 100 feet depth at the time
@@craigburgess1504 can you you still do the underwater telephone voice? I used to listen to it in the ops room of HMAS Stuart(DE 48) when we operated with HMAS Oxley in the WAXA. Highly entertaining!
@Uncle Joe We used to call you guys grubby subby's
Fun fact: According to wiki, 14 Oberons still exist, with 7 as museum ships and the other 7 either being converted to museums or being scrapped. Which means at least 1/4 of the Oberon fleet is preserved, which has to be one of the most well-preserved classes of mass-produced warship.
I served on two Oberon Submarines
I'd love to hear your stories.
@@SubBrief I have a few mate. They were the quietest submarines in the world in their time. One of our subs during an exercise with the US Navy penetrated the USS Enterprise carrier battle group and raised the periscope and took a photo of the port side, Submurged went under it and took a photo of the starboard side the exfiltrated the battle group. When they told them what they had done the US denied it. Till they sent them the photos. lol
Hey Jive? Why don't we (Americans) build boats like this anymore? I mean non nuclear? Nuke boats are SO damn expensive, It seems we could get alot more of these boats if we stoped useing nuke power? I'm sure that if we built non nuke boats with all the modern sound mitigation and modern sensors it would still be way less expensive than the freaking underwater tube of money that the seawolf turned out to be.
USA had a projection of power strategy and there is a lot of deep water between them and the rest of the world. Unless South America rises up as a super power doubt America will look more close defence military assets
@@galliman123 well... I think that jive said that the Oberon class had a 10000 mile range.. which is pretty good.. and If all you need is a bit of fuel and food. Im thinking that a stop for a top off in some port would be just fine for a new 10000 miles..And its still a hell of a alot cheaper than a Seawolf.. or Virgina class sub.
Same reason the USAF is never going to build a replacement for the A-10.
As a kid growing in Sydney, Australia during the 80's I remember every time we drove over the Harbour Bridge looking out for the Oberon subs that were based at HMAS Platypus in Neutral Bay.
There were usually 1 or 2 subs docked there at a time that I'd get a quick glimpse at as we drove past.
Cammel Laird - Laird is pronounced similarly to a lair, as in wolf's lair - with a D on the end. Not Lard.
Thanks, I'll work that in to my future videos.
@@SubBrief Great video of course, as always.
NOTE: the yard is in Birkenhead. Across the Mersey from Liverpool.
yes, hard D. It was the Northern English/Scottish pronunciation of the word Lord and the meaning has diverged over the centuries such Lord means someone who owns a title of address (such as baron, count, etc..) while Laird means land owner in Scotland (i.e. someone who owns a country estate).
Thank you Paul... spot on
Thank you for releasing this. My father was an Officer on board both HMS Porpoise and Oracle. I was Christened on board Porpoise and my name is on the ship's bell. My father said that Porpoise's diesels were so strong that on the surface they could get 22kns out of her. He also spent time on exercise with the Chilean Navy who ran a few Oberons boats themselves.
Great to see more commonwealth subs covered. Hope you'll cover the Upholder/Victoria Class someday as I'm serving on one currently.
(Ret' RN) When I was doing my Diesel/ADICE Adqual back in the early 90's, I had a 'play' in the 2400 Man Rm simulator.
My Uncle had 2 Oberon HMAS commands, Otway and Oxley, Iv also had a tour of the museum Oberon Sub in Western Australia ( HMAS Ovens). Good Boats by all reports.
Was on a ship out of Portsmouth in the 80's.. got some 8mm cine film of one of these coming out of port somewhere
Camel Laird is pronounced L-Air-D rather than L-Ard, but love your briefs. Very interesting. 👏🏻👏🏻
Oh thanks!
In the Australian O boats, the aft torp tubes were used as alcohol storage lockers.
On the subject of alcohol in the Australian Navy, officers are not allowed to drink at all at sea. Sailors are allowed but the rules basically boil down to 2 beers per person per day perhaps.
Perhaps a little more on the return of a successful mission 🤔😉
@@galliman123 We actually saved the beer up and did not drink it each day. We waited until the last night at sea. This was called Channels night which comes from WW2 when the allied subs celebrated making it home from a successful patrol much fun was had on those nights
@@galliman123 Sailors coming ashore after a long period at sea are infamous in their alcohol consumption. Australian sailors turned that up to 11.
We were all young and dumb once. Age has the mighty power to force you to dial things back and perhaps gain a bit of wisdom.
Having worked in the ASW role it was the diesel subs that worried me. Properly maintained and run they are pretty much invisible.
I was in a Sea King dipping sonar in the Atlantic looking for one of our Canadian Oberon subs (this was 2000) and the Sub surfaced right below us.... Fucker was right there below our sonar buoy and we couldn't find him.
Batteries are still king, imagine trying to find a SSK now!
There was a case where, during the Falkland Island War, an Argentinian submarine that managed to dodge British ASW forces and only failed to sink a ship due to problems with the torpedoes which where ill-maintained.
@@shaider1982 that is speculative. They don't know what ship they found if any. And that submarine was attacked several times.
Free ascent from 500 feet wow that's a bloody long way! I was lucky enough to go around the Onyx (and Plymouth) in Birkenhead when she was a museum ship (before she was scrapped) we're so bad at preserving ships in the UK. One thing that having conventional subs in the RN did (apart from their obvious abilities) was it kept the UK experienced in building subs, now we're down to just 6 SSNs and the SSBNs it isnt' enough to maintain sub building capability.
I live in Chatham (unfortunately) and heading down to the dockyard it is great to see HMS Ocelot (S17) moored there. I used to go on her a lot as a kid and I was always thinking what it must have been like serving on a submarine! Great stuff as always.
There's one of these (HMAS Onslow) located in the National Maritime Museum next to the destroyer HMAS Vampire. She doesn't have any war stories but apparently she was the first conventional submarine to use anti-ship missiles, and was involved in an absolutely degenerate line-crossing ceremony 1995.
I was a member of her crew I have some stories about her
@@craigburgess1504 Yes I saw some of your tales in the other comments!
@@craigburgess1504 Give us a story please Craig!
@@theoriginaldylangreene We came to the end of an exercise and everyone was heading back into port. It was night time. So we rigged fishing boat lights up and trimmed the boat down lower in the water. As the fleet came in we simulated a torpedo attack on the caught them by surprise
@@craigburgess1504 ........Down Periscope. I meant one of yours, not Hollywood's.
My Dad and a colleague were on Oberon in late 1972 as civilians working on the sonar system. They were airlifted off when Oberon began a game of cat and mouse with a Russian sub.
You could go as far ast to say that the Oberon was built on Porpoise.
I have an idea for a video: a primer of submariner traditions, like Dolphins, the Jolly Roger, and the broom on the mast after a patrol.
The daily Rum ration wasn't just for subs. It was a Royal Navy tradition going back to the age of sail that they only begrudgingly abolished in the modern era. During WW2 RN officers and USN officers often served on each others ships for various reason's. it was agreed by all that RN ships were great because you could get a drink. But because USN ships all had refrigeration so the food was much better.
For me as a German it is very intersting, that the legacy of tne Type XXI lived on that long.
Das Boot in another form. We thank the Germans.
I worked with a Petty Officer sparker (radioman) that served on our Oberons (RCN, 80's). He had a few stories, including taking pics of a USN carrier undetected, and some stuff he wasn't allowed to talk about. Great guy, bit crazy but that's to be expected from a submariner, it seems.
You are incorrect about Olympus. It did have 5 man chamber. And did not go to the Falklands in 82. I should know. I was on her at the time.
Great video. One mission you didn’t mention that I believe was frequently handled by O boats was distraction and delousing for RN and USN SSBNs departing and returning to Holy Loch and Faslane. They were a flexible, cheap platform for such work, and this freed up SSNs for blue water operations.
You are correct
This sounds like someone went eh the old hull design is nice let's try to get every sensor we can think of on this and they somehow succeeded
The very large sail helped I think
In the late 70s/80s I went aboard one of our Aussie Oberons - I can't remember which one I was probably 10 years old then. In the good old days the RAN used visit most Australian capital cities and open their ships up to the public when they were in port and let the public view (some parts) of them. I can remember how huge I thought the tropedos were - I'm not sure of they were MK48s in those days. I was surprised because there were beds made up on the torpedos , so I guess they had visitors on noard that trip.
I also recall how tiny the captain's cabin was IIRC essentially a bed and a fold down desk.
Other vessels I remember visiting were HMAS Vampire with it's Limbo mortars, HMAS Perth, HMAS Adelaide II the first FFG7 in RAN service (we lived in Adelaide) one of the River class - I think it was HMAS Stewart - they were showing a film of the Ikara in action in the mess - I guess it was like 16mm or something film - real film with a porjector. I remember thinking how cool that was - a torpedo dropped from a missle) and the training ship of the day (HMAS Stalwart??), a survey ship - maybe HMAS Port Moreseby.
They used to have professionally printed handouts, like an A4 page folded intoa. booklet with specs, the ships motto anda. bit of hisotry about the ship and the class. I wish I still had all those little pamphlets.
These visits gave me an interest in naval warfare and naval vessels which has not left me to this day - more than a few decades later.
So I guess Aaroon can thank the RAN and their PR port calls in the 80s and 90s for my subscription.
That said, the RAN got me here - but Aaroon's quality content keeps me coming back.
Same here loved the open days at Station Pier so exciting as a boy.😅
As a trainee officer in the Royal Australian Air Force my division received a briefing from an Oberon captain. He told us about lying quietly near Russian harbours listening to the traffic coming and going. He also told us a tale about picking up an Australian agent from a fishing boat on a pre-arranged night (name of country not mentioned). They almost shot the person in the head, on the forward deck, as he couldn’t remember the correct password. Five minutes later, password remembered, they were laughing over a whiskey in the wardroom. And those were just the stories he was allowed to tell us...
11:30 we can now use multiple headphones with one transmitter
Further to my comment the trust sold the HMS Onyx to a local Barrow man who could not keep the boat going and it was sold for scrap and was scrapped at Rosyth dockyard in 2014 which was a shame as it like the other O class boats completed some daring exploits. Kind regards
Very sad.
That's so crazy, I literally just did a 3D model of this sub last week and then you post a sub brief.
I just want to say congratulations on 100k. I'm not in any branch of armed forces but I enjoy listening to you, thank you for what you do and your service.
Nice just visited Onondaga sub in Rimouski, Canada. This is an O class sub use by the Royal Canadian Navy.
The Canadian had replaced the Alf torpedo tube with a towed array. I didn’t know they were related to the German type 21. Make sense. A bit bigger than the ww2 submarine I visited in US.
A high school friend was a sonar operator on the Australian O boats (he joined the Navy a couple of years before I did).
The stories of what they got up to were crazy.
when were you and he serving? I joined in 1977 at age 16
@@craigburgess1504 I joined in the mid 90's. A bunch of my classmates got their command drives (including subs) but the few remaining in uniform now are CAPT and CDRE's.
loved it. thanks
do more british subs
Just so you know, the thumbnail has an incorrect Union flag on it, Jive. The diagonal lines go around the flag in the anti-clockwise manner, thus there is no symmetry.
Hearing somebody as professional as you big up my nations armed forces fills me with national pride even though I never served lol. Thank you
It's an honor for me to acknowledge honorable subs and sailors around the world.
@@SubBrief yes you say good things about the Russian sailors too, if the equipment and practises are half as dodgy as you say they are then they're brave boys indeed!!
In April 1982, Olympus departed HMNB Devonport. It was believed at the time that she was deployed to the South Atlantic during the Falklands War. In fact, for the duration of the Falklands Conflict Olympus took in NATO exercises off the coast of Scotland. I do believe she was refitted in Devonport from July 1982 until September 1984.
First submarine I ever went saw was an Oberon conducting a port visit to Albany, Western Australia in the 90s. I was about 5 and I distinctly remember being terrified of falling into the harbour as a walked across the hull to the sail.
That photo of the bow section with the torpedo in it was taken at the Western Australian Maritime Museum. They have a complete Oberon there that you can take a guided tour of.
Very impressive range - 10,000 nautical miles - for a 2,000 ton hull. I believe the German type VII had a 7,000 nm range by comparison
Oberon class fleet of 11 boats. 11 boats for just one class. Thats more then total number of submarines, SSBN and SSN, in Royal navy today.
They have a fantastic sense of humour. The best in England by far!
You do NOT hold your breath when carrying out a free ascent from a Boat, you must exhale all the way to the surface, Im sure you can imagine what would happen to your lungs if you did hold your breath. If carrying out a Suit ascent then you would breath normally, the external pressure displaces the air from your stole pushing it into the hood allowing you to breath normally all the way to the surface.
The thumbnail is looking at the Gosport Ferry in Portsmouth Harbour. I live about 20 seconds from there, and used to go across the ferry most days when I was in the Navy, and then every day when I worked for BAE Systems supporting the RN.
The good old O boats! Those things just kept on going.
I've actually gotten to climb around in one of these, the HMCS Ojibwa, it's in Port Burwell Ontario and you can get a 1.5 hour guided tour, and it's really, really cool.
My late father served on the O-boats. Orpheus and Opposum. He had a great story about being rammed by a russian spy trawler in the english channel, the returned to portsmouth with a 45 degree list after the ballast tank was punctured. I have newspaper clippings he saved from that. Great brief Arron.
One of my earliest memories is going onboard an O boat when I was about 5 or 6 as a school excursion in Australia. I think it was HMAS Oxley. Also lots of memories of seeing them tied up in Kirribili before crossing the Harbor Bridge. Wonderful boats.
Do you know if it is possible to wind up the HF vertical antenna by hand on the Oberon class sub? I know hydraulics are normally used but must have a fail-safe method one would think. Working on one at Australia National Maritime Museum. We want to operate Amateur radio on board.
I'm born in Cumbria, and know Barrow-in-Furness well. Its still called the "Old Vickers Yard"
In the late Eighties, these boats got a very signifcant upgrade to the combat system with the 2051 sonar suite and DCH. 2051 was an upgrade to the inboard electronics and lots of pen recorders dedicated to individual sonars were replaced by a very compact suite with screens capable of displaying any of the sonars at any position. DCH was comparable to the AIO and fire control systems of nuclear submarines and replaced manual plots and a mechanical fire control system! Of course, having spent the money, politiicans then decided to take the boats out of service as a savings measure in 1990 ish.
One thing the British has always done better than the Americans and Russians with their ships and boats, they put alot more effort into their names, if you google all British HMS ships and boats names are way cooler than all other navis with most only putting the effort in for choosing old navel captains/presidents or cities! Boring and not that cool, their are loads of names the Brits chose like HMS Warspite, HMS Hood, HMS Tiger, HMS Lion and HMS Magic just to name a very small few, its worth a look online at their names over the years, we still choose famous names and cities ie HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS prince of wales, our new frigates have all been given names of great British cities, there ok but not much effort, fortunatly the Astutes have all been given cool names.
nice video , could you do more on brit subs.
Yes I can, another is due this Sunday.
My grandad was an electrical engineer who worked on the construction of HMS Odin and HMS Oracle, I always thought they were really cool subs with such a brutal looking aesthetic compared to the Upholder Class and the nuclear subs that came after.
My uncle now in his seventies served in Odin, they spent quite a bit of time down in Australia.
FYI - Cammell Laird is in Birkenhead - not ‘Liverpool City Region’ . The river Mersey is a moat dug to separate the two places ;)
let me just say, can you appreciate how effective splinter camo was in the time before radar? at 7:30 ish just look at the second ship there,, what it must have been like on the rolling sea, cold and wet, your own ship rolling and heaving,, thats impressive! getting 25+ years of service from a basically 1940's design sub is noteworthy. talk is about the steel, but its the crews who did all the work, indeed, give it up for the sailors
I understand that pronunciation is different from place to place, but it's Cammel L AIR D, not Lard lol. I can see it from my workplace.
Any chance of a sub Brief of the French Rubis/ Emerald class nuclear subs. Their compact size and turbo-electric powerplant interests me.
Chatham .... every bloody Dutch Sailor knows about this place. ......
Guess why ?
My Aunt lived in Sassnitz.....and i have been to the Otus :D ............... Sorry could catch you CW Stream today....had an appointment for blood donation :)
why do british subs (astute, trafalgar, etc) have built up double hulls? it looks noisy. and expensive to build maintain
Thank you for another fantastic sub brief on a British submarine 😁👌🏾 I'm looking forward to the upcoming Udaloy brief too!
Coming soon!
They were great boats. It’s a shame the Australian ones didn’t really get a mention. They were active and very successful for long time.
Your.explaination of the error on HMS Triumph is so far wrong as to be comical
Cammell Laird still very much a beating heart of our city today and a focus of the local economy. Take walks along the Mersey’s bank regularly and see the dockyard on the other side - currently with Type 45 DD HMS Dauntless (I think) and an RFA Tanker in dry dock. If you’re ever looking to visit a city rich in Naval and Maritime history Aaron, no better place than Liverpool. Enjoyed this sub brief, thank you!
Joined HMs/m Conqueror being fitted out at Cammell Lairds in early 1970. I believe the free ascent escape limit was approx 120ft and with the Hood escape suit you breath normally as you ascend via the two man escape chamber was just over 500ft ?
Hi Aaron, they even Be-Dazzle their Submarines. Awesome
Guess it didn't have much of a porpoise
Most likely union welders who refused to say anything because it wasn't their job.
Cammel Laird.... Good attempt, it's pronounced more like Camel Layered
I was lucky enough to go on board HMS Orpheus when I was a child. My uncle took his perisher on it 😊
delete court martialed enter golden handshake and bottle of rum, thats how the uk pays off officers
The tot of rum was issued to the whole RN. If I'm not wrong there was an issue in the Falkands.
Hi from Canada Jive, SBS= Special Boat Service naval version of the SAS= Special Air Service all super badass soldiers. HMCS Ojibway an Oberon class Sub is a museum ship currently just outside London Ontario in Lake Erie at Port Burwell, not too far from Michigan.
Ojibway was stripped in Hamilton. I was on the lake when it came through the lift bridge on a drydock barge.
Tug towing the barge asked for a bridge opening, operator pipes back "It's a submarine, can't you go under?"
Someone in the SBS probably wouldn't quibble with you, but he might prefer to be considered part of the Royal Marines
On a submarine you never want to cavitate otherwise your screwed lol
Otus and Osiris are my fathers old boats. His favourite time in.
21:02 in your video . . . . . . . bro you have done this ? how far down did you do this ?
Hi Aaron, great brief, but just for your information, due to the Lack of special forces in 1982, to the British requirement(people with the SBS and SAS) were kind of combined and deployed together.
Thank you.
More RN subs, please.
The sail is very tall, what's the reson for this. The early nukes were the same. Dreadnought, Valiants, Churchill's etc.
To fit the periscopes and masts in when lowered. The Oberon pressure hull diameter is much smaller than the length of the periscope so the fin (sail) needs to be quite tall to house the excess periscope tube to remain hydrodynamic when it is not being used.
just wanted to correct a small note hms triumph was a trafalgar class fast attack submarine trafalgar being the 1st and triumph being the last, the upside down compartment was infact the reactor compartment which has the reactor tunnel situated above so only by entering the reactor compartment will you see it....i served on trafalgar 5.5 years hms torbay and triumph
the reactor compartment was never corrected and is infact to this day still upside down.
lockers being upside down is incorrect only pipe fixings were in the deckhead instead of the bilge were the major things also cost to build was roughly 850million for the sub trafalgar was closer to 1.5b she also had a 13ton brass screw the rest of the class had propulsors simular to russia and usa beyond that they were very simular, later on trafalgar trialed a lot of inovations like counter measure launchers a stowage on the outer hull for the sbs to store a rib boat and side sonar arrays tlam missials which we used in anger kicking off afgan war lead by the usa from our carrier.
Trafalgar's screw was nineteen tons, nearly twenty feet in diameter, had nine blades and was made of Nikalium. It was identical to Swiftsure's propeller. Later on Swiftsure was fitted with a nine bladed screw with thinner blades, and it 'sang', it was quickly changed to our old operational one.
Both Traf and Swiftsure's crews were monsters, in no time flat both boats would be zooming along with hardly any revs on at all.
The pump jet propulsors of the follow on S boats we fantastic pieces of engineering. The T boat PSPJ improved on the design and as one boat is still operational no more will be said.
Suffice to say that the Royal Navy trialed the first propulsor on HMS Churchill (the very first boat to get a pump jet) and once it proved feasible the design matured, and now everybody has them... Rolls Royce eh, expertise par excellence!
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Thank you for this sir. Very interesting.
Upside down weld story crap.
Dont you mean transceiver, not transducer?
I duno about the submarine, but the beer is great!
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