[Jeff]

Some great shots from a tour outside and inside of the biggest submarine.

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2525

[Stuart Galbraith]

Great photos. There was some good footage of one of these being cut up on a discovery channel programme. For some strange reason Im sorry to see the damned things go. I hope at least one gets saved for a museum. Cant Clancy buy one? :)

[aevans]

That boat is in truly outstanding material condition. Slap them nukes back in and she's ready to defend the Motherland.

I like this page better. They don't have quite the same attitude towards the uniform that we do.

[Doug Kibbey]

Every private goes home a generalissimo. :lol:

[TomasCTT]

Great find! Thanks!

First pic: "I can haz subarine?" or "I askd 4 subsanwich, not aktwal subarine!"

[Luke Y]

http://englishrussia.com/images/after_army/1_001.jpg

Whats with the tassles on the sleeves?
Gotta love central asian style... :P

http://englishrussia.com/images/after_army/1_005.jpg

:huh:

http://englishrussia.com/images/after_army/1_006.jpg

What rank is that on his arm? Super-ultra-mega-ninja-master-regimental-command-sergeant-major-of-the-Army?

And why is he in DPM?

This post has been edited by Luke_Yaxley: 13 May 2009 - 1240 PM

[bojan]

Luke_Yaxley, on Tue 12 May 2009 0423, said:

...And why is he in DPM?

Russians use local version of the DPM.

[ShotMagnet]

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For some strange reason Im sorry to see the damned things go. I hope at least one gets saved for a museum.

Me too, for the same strange reason.

I imagine if some entrepreneur waved a bucket of cash in front of the right person, that entrepreneur might find oneself in possession of a Typhoon. What to do with it after that would be the real poser. I can't imagine that restoring it to pristine condition would be either cheap or easy, or that outside the confines of the likes of us here on TN likely to be much of a draw.

Sadly.


Shot

[Stuart Galbraith]

ShotMagnet, on Wed 13 May 2009 1805, said:

Me too, for the same strange reason.

I imagine if some entrepreneur waved a bucket of cash in front of the right person, that entrepreneur might find oneself in possession of a Typhoon. What to do with it after that would be the real poser. I can't imagine that restoring it to pristine condition would be either cheap or easy, or that outside the confines of the likes of us here on TN likely to be much of a draw.

Sadly.
Shot

You guys in California could park it next to the Queen mary and open it as a Hotel. it already has a swimming pool, if you ripped out the missile tubes, you would have a couple of excellent squash courts. :)

I kind of regret we didnt preserve our first missile boats, the Resolution class. I guess I understand WHY. You would have CND smashing it up every 5 minutes. :rolleyes:

I think one of the C class attack boats was preserved. somewhere. Not surprisingly it wasnt conqueror.

Didnt you Americans preserve Nautilus? What kind of state is she in?

[rmgill]

Stuart Galbraith, on Wed 13 May 2009 1323, said:

Didnt you Americans preserve Nautilus? What kind of state is she in?

She has her own Museum and everything.

[aevans]

bojan, on Tue 12 May 2009 2057, said:

Russians use local version of the DPM.

I think the real question was, why no dress uniform?

[Paul G.]

Hey that control room doesn't look anything like the one seen in Hunt for Red Oktober!

http://images.allmoviephoto.com/1990_The_Hunt_for_Red_October/sean_connery_alec_baldwin_the_hunt_for_red_october_001.jpg

[ShotMagnet]

Yeah, the 'scope's not chromed, either.

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You guys in California could park it next to the Queen mary...

I think QM was unloaded some time ago. There's an aircraft carrier in San Diego which was turned into a museum (Midway?). Maybe aforementioned entrepreneur could park the Typhoon there.

I'm wondering if the Soviets would like to give up a Shkval or a SLBM to stand alongside. I'm betting not...


Shot

[Christian Lupine]

You could try and smuggle drugs out of South America with it.

[BP]

Christian Lupine, on Thu 14 May 2009 2010, said:

You could try and smuggle drugs out of South America with it.

You could smuggle every single drug out of South America with that ginormous SOB!

[JWB]

ShotMagnet, on Wed 13 May 2009 2220, said:

Yeah, the 'scope's not chromed, either.
I think QM was unloaded some time ago. There's an aircraft carrier in San Diego which was turned into a museum (Midway?). Maybe aforementioned entrepreneur could park the Typhoon there.

I'm wondering if the Soviets would like to give up a Shkval or a SLBM to stand alongside. I'm betting not...
Shot

Thar she blows! > http://www.midway.org/

[Marcello]

Stuart Galbraith, on Mon 11 May 2009 1241, said:

Great photos. There was some good footage of one of these being cut up on a discovery channel programme. For some strange reason Im sorry to see the damned things go. I hope at least one gets saved for a museum. Cant Clancy buy one? :)

One has been overhauled and refitted to carry Bulava SLBMs and is currently used as testbed for the program. It has been suggested in some sources that an other boat or two might be likewise refitted and put back in service once Bulava is put in production, with "might" being the key word here.
Personally I doubt it is going to happen but who knows.
K-19 has been purchased and saved from scrapping (for the moment at least ) by a former crew member turned oligarch, so that route is not outside the realm of possibilities. Still much less likely than refit.

[JWB]

New owner of the boat. > http://en.wikipedia....ladimir_Romanov

[DesertFox]

The USS Milwaukee being scrapped and decommissioned since around 1993 did not seem to have that much rust

[Steven P Allen]

Too bad we don't have a time machine! Can you imagine what the CIA would have paid for those pics in 1984?