Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Element 18" channel.

  1. Kursk was nothing nuclear, it was destroyed by a faulty torpedo.
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  2. If you think An Ohio-class is big you should see a Typhoon, it has twice the displacement of an Ohio and the size of a WW2 aircraft carrier.
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  3.  @robturner7853  The world's biggest submarine is the Belgorod and it's not American...
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  4. Almost everything on the ISS is controlled from the ground and the crew in mission control is much larger than on any submarine.
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  5. 90's, Trident II missiles were first rolled out across the 90's with the British Vanguard-class being the first class built specifically for them.
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  6.  @Jackdaw5  You had a good post until you added the 2000 to 3000 nonsense.
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  7. There's a movie where USS Nimitz gets teleported back to WW2 and have a dilemma on their hands, destroy the Japanese fleet or allow Pearl Harbor to happen.
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  8. US documentaries tend not to mention the achievements of others if they can help it, to do that would go against the "the rest of the world are cavemen" brainwashing they in still in their children.
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  9. The tear drop hull predates Albacore by almost a century, the only reason they were not used during the world wars is because of the exact reason you gave, submarines in the first half of the 20th century were in fact submersible boats rather than complete submarines.
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  10. Utter nonsense. 36 boomers to replace 10? When did the nuclear treaty with Russia allow for an extra 26 missile boats? Also fusion only exists on the Sun.
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  11. Slightly? I hope that was sarcasm.
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  12. You think people like James Bond get all their intel from YouTube?
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  13. It's a US documentary so they will generally focus on stuff the US pioneered unless it can't be avoided.
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  14. Only if the START II treaty is ripped up.
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  15. Only 10 of the Ohios are ballistic subs, the other 4 are cruise missile subs. A boomer, let alone a nuclear boomer, is hardly undetectable as it can't turn off it's noisy reactors. 24 Trident II missile tubes each, of which fewer than 10 are used during peacetime Your information is wrong on just about every level :/
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