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Actually, not from Ninme herself, but from one of her commenters. Ninme had a post about semi-submersible cargo ships, and one of the pictures in the link was of one of them hauling a submarine:
The question is, what type of submarine is that? It sure looks like a Russian boat, but what class? An Alfa, maybe?
posted by Bubblehead at 1:11 AM
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11 Comments:
Hard to tell, but it doesn't look to have the length of a November...
I did find thisn while looking...
http://www.heiszwolf.com/subs/plans/plans.html
What makes me wonder is the idea of a Russian submarine on a western heavy lifter? Maybe this is a western boat.
2/10/2007 7:28 AM
My guess it's a Victor I. But halfempty raises a good point about a Russian boat being on a Western heavy lifter, especially a nuke.
Unless the hull has been completely gutted of nuke propulsion material and machinery, I highly doubt the Russians would just allow someone to come along and plunk it on the deck of their flatbed.
2/10/2007 7:52 AM
The Norwegians are deeply involved with Northern Fleet decomm operations, for obvious, self-interested reasons, and we should be very happy they are.
Robin White
2/10/2007 9:32 AM
Just one? Here's three at once!
2/10/2007 9:49 AM
The angle makes it a tough call between a November class and an Alpha. But by tuning out the silhouette you can see by process of elimination that it's clearly a November: it's rusting.
Novembers hulls were made of steel -- Alphas were titanium alloy.
2/10/2007 12:35 PM
Oops -- looks like I took the bait a little too quickly.
It is indeed a Victor...and, again, that's determined by the process of elimination via this article.
2/10/2007 12:48 PM
You're right -- it's not capitalized. I've never noticed that before. So now will you tell us what it means?
2/10/2007 2:47 PM
LOL
They must have learned not to *tow* after all.
2/10/2007 6:36 PM
The shape of the sail of the Alfa was very low and streamlined, moreso than the sub in the picture, so it's not an Alfa. It couldn't be a Victor III because it didn't have a pod-thingy on the rudder. It couldn't have been a November due to age and shape of the sail; November sails are more angular, and more tubular shaped aft. It couldn't have been a Charlie because they are more bulbous around the bow due to their cruise missile cannisters. It didn't have a notch at the top of the rudder of a Victor II, so that left a Victor I.
And before anyone vaporlocks that I'm giving away classified data, just go over to Global Security.org for a few pics of each Victor variant and the other subs, and you'll see that none of what I said is classified.
That being said, I can't say whether or not I could tell right off the bat what it was just by looking at it...
2/10/2007 7:48 PM
Just because it's on Global Security.org doesn't make it UNCLAS.
2/12/2007 1:14 AM
ninme -- I fixed the capitalization on my blogroll.
2/13/2007 10:24 PM
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