Victor III Sub Brief

It is very good to hear that US Navy has a better opinion about Russian Fleet, than the Russians themselves. I lived 23 years in Severomorsk, and used to know several submarine officers who served on nuclear subs whom I would not trust to change tires on my car. But the Motherland somehow trust them to run a nuclear sub with enough ballistic missiles to destroy an average size country. Though it was in 1990s. It most likely had changed to better by now (being an Army/Fleet officer has become much more prestigious (and well paid) in 2010s). But the commanders of the subs now are the officers who entered the officers academies in mid-1990, when just having a full set of limbs and a head (solely for doing hand salute, thinking ability was not required) was enough to get the entry, as the number of candidates was so low.

Russian Depth Movie mentioned in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wIug9uYGLY

Fair enough.

Good sub driving, tactics, environmental advantages and lots of luck.

Aaron Amick

If the Victor III boats are so noisy how are they trailing a Ohio class boomer without detection?

so what you may find is Russian subs with the Komsomol tagline may be crewed all by Leninist Youths.

Hey Jive, Komsomol is the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, a youth organization controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. the full name is Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodyozhi. Basically, every teenager from the age of 14 to 28 in the USSR was a Komsomol member

Are you haveing a problem with this link?

Aaron Amick

Manuel, this link is working. Are you having a problem with it?

Aaron Amick

Hey Jive, did you ever have any solution to get this working? Went to listen now and it's broken. :(

Hello :-) @8:04 - S-10 (SS-N-21 Sampson) is a submarine launched variant of RK-55 Relief cruise missile used in ground based launchers. I would argue that the closest equivalent in US Navy at that time would be UGM-109 TLAM, not the Harpoon, since both are cruise missiles and fulfill similar role of striking land based targets only. I'm not aware of S-10 being able to attack surface (ships) targets before being converted from nuclear capable land attack version. @14:16 - Caliber-S missile is not the S-10 you have showed at the beginning. It's one of many modular missiles from 3M-54 Kalibr missile complex but i don't know what the Caliber-S is capable of. Also when it comes to russian weaponry I think it's better to stick to the original naming convention because those NATO/translated designations sometimes mess things up (it looks like the Caliber-S is one of them. I know there is Kalibr-M so Caliber-S is accually Kalibr-S? Or Caliber-S refers to the export varian Club-S?)

Mustachio Tit. Whatever the Soviets lacked in technology, detection and weapons at that point, the naming conventions for operations make up for it :D

https://www.patreon.com/posts/project-671-i-30315285

https://www.patreon.com/posts/victor-ii-671rt-30728856

Thanks a lot for the reupload!

Can you point to the other two videos on the Victor?

Nicholas Gross

That's the normal emergency blow procedure. the did an EMBT for demonstration purposes.

Aaron Amick