I would have liked to see Montana.

Vassshili, verify range to target. One ping only, pleashe.

How do you get a crew to want to get off a submarine?

Sadly, the winter boys are freezing in their spam tin.

Seth'n'Spectrum: This is Russia, there are rules there. The submarine douses you, I believe.

OK, not certain if I should give golf claps or a smack across the chops for that line.

Mesa cause one, two-y little bitty axadentes, huh? Yud say boom de gasser, den crashin der bosses heyblibber, den banished.



/worst
//ever

stlbluez: tonyfo98: Has he done any "Crazy Ivans?"

/next one to the left

Why ? Because the last one was to the right ?

No, because he always does one to starboard at the bottom of the hour.

Really? "Left" and "right?"

kevinfra: According to the article, it happened in the shipyard. This happens a lot because there's usually a lot of a) welding and b) flamable stuff lying around.

That's why you post a damn fire watch.

Being familiar with both subs and shipyards, I find myself asking why the yard was using wooden scaffolding in the drydock. Most shipyards here use metal pipe scaffolding with aluminum footboards.

I also wonder whether or not the sub is resting on wooden keel blocks such as we use here. If so, the Russians may have some serious damage to the boat when the keel blocks collapse in the fire- dropping the 500-meter sub onto the floor of the drydock. Possible damage to the sonar dome, screws, outer hull, sail, radar masts, periscopes, missile and torpedo hatches, etc. could effectively kill the boat.

Here's another thought: I realize Russia doesn't have any warm-water ports to operate from, but putting a billion-dollar asset in drydock in December ... in Murmansk ... doesn't appear to have been well thought out. Among other problems, the Russian winter has been known to kill people and equipment, and this drydock seems to be less than well-insulated against weather from the pictures in TFA. Welding may not have started the fire. The shipyard crew may have had burn barrels going to keep off the chill while they worked ... on the wooden scaffolding.

I'm not particularly worried about radiation release unless the actual reactor compartment was on fire. The reactor was almost certainly off-line before the boat went into drydock. The missiles would also most likely have been removed long before.

Not looking forward to the mishap report when it eventually comes out. The Russian ones (new window) make for really depressing reading.

How do we know they're not trolling us? It could be that once more, they play their dangerous game, a game of chess against their old adversary - The American Navy. For forty years, their fathers before them and their older brothers played this game and played it well.

MythDragon: [hollywoodjesus.com image 485x321]
"As long as you don't spend more than 30...40 minutes in the reactor core, you'll be fine. Now finish putting on that chemica....uh...radiation suit and get on in there."

Came for K-19 The Widowmaker reference.