Thank you for your service!

I hunted these things in the later part of the Cold War, also Victor, Yankee, and Delta. They changed the game, but it didn’t get totally out of hand. What they really did was to cause us to get a LOT smarter and better and more careful, which we did. The Type II’s and III’s and IV’s were incremental improvements…

Thank you for your service and amazing insight!

Back in the late eighties I was a young sonar officer on an LA class attack boat. Over the course of eleven days, we acquired and tracked two Akula boats in two separate incidents on the approaches to Holy Loch. We spent hours in both boats’ baffles, setting up all sorts of shot drills. One never knew we were there;…

Pakistan. Someone can correct me, but I think the last time a sub killed another sub was in an India vs Pakistan conflict.

i would say pakistan, and one well manned sub can be a pain in the ass if you dont have the means to detect it.

The most interesting Russian sub to me is the Alfa class. Truly unlike anything else every put to sea - tiny, but with a hugely powerful lead cooled reactor, and all all the crew huddled together in one control room. What’s really interesting is the the machinery spaces were all sealed underway, it was all remote…

China.

Weather-Tech bed liner isn’t bomb-proof or armor.

Actually, intangible windows are completely immune to blasts, they don’t take any damage from them at all.

So are intangible windows.

Yes, but they are now SPRAKJAHOPEN.

But you’d be able to replace sparkplugs with an Allen key

So it’s what we’d get if Ikea decided to make military vehicles instead of furniture.

Do they plan on offering a hybrid model? If so there’s already a name that strikes fear into the leaders of the world, “Bi-Partisan” 

Yes, an electric motor can apply force while it isn’t moving, whereas an internal combustion engine can’t. That’s why starter motors are a thing.

This worked so well with Ram and Viper, because everyone stopped calling them Dodges right away.

+1 for fucking attention to detale

Conspiracy says Corvette breaks out as a brand. The word ‘Chevrolet’ does not appear on the outside of the current car and neither does the bow-tie.

did they spot one mystery car, or two?