Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "How to Surface a Submarine in the Arctic Ocean - Smarter Every Day 260" video.

  1. Except the Seawolf-class was designed to be leagues ahead of the Los Angeles-class. The SOD for an LA-class is around 300m so they were likely tested to around 410m and, due to their lower grade of steel, estimated to crush by 500m or 550m.
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  2. Heavy equipment is placed along the keel, on a diesel boat this would be the banks of batteries but on a nuclear boat I assume it's the gas bottles that store all of the compressed air.
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  3. And here is your corrections.... USS Toledo was one of the latest and last Los Angeles class subs built. Diving Depth nowhere near 1km - Standard operating Depth 300m - crush depth 50% beyond that Speed : rare reports of 55-60kmh in certain conditions
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  4. The USS Los Angeles was a Flight 1 688 designed in the 60's while USS Toledo was a Flight 3 688i from the mid-90's, very different submarines.
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  5. Would be tricky to make space for them as that is a premium on submarines.
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  6. Except you can't break the laws of physics, if someone knows the shape of an object and the material it is made from they can just calculate it's crush depth using maths.
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  7.  @narmale  Area 51? Have you gone bananas?
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  8. Some countries have both.
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  9. More like an airship than a helicopter.
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  10. That's crazy talk! If the US had 10 million subs you'd be able to walk across them from Europe to the US! j/k
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  11. Try again in English.
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  12. USS Toledo is a fast attack sub, not a ballistic sub, it's job is to hunt down the submarines with nuclear arsenals.
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  13. "Fetch MacReady, and tell him to bring the flamethrower."
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  14. They do on modern subs, the Toledo is 30 years old.
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  15. That's why we designed our Astute and Vanguard class subs with hexagonal hulls, in case they get beamed into space.
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