Project 675 Echo II SSGN Sub Brief

Ur fine. What is this? The Navy?

This is in reference to Razboinik (Robber, Bandit etc.) Bay

The reactor storage facility for the Pacific fleet appears to be here: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9038485,132.3553192,712m/data=!3m1!1e3 - I believe the reactors are on the eastern side. There is a similar facility at Sayda Bay for the Nothern Fleet: https://www.google.com/maps/@69.2466615,33.2341586,1159m/data=!3m1!1e3 Found this in this report from 2003: https://www.osti.gov/biblio/823783-radioactive-legacy-russian-pacific-fleet-operations-final-report

Is it me or was this a particularly accident prone class?! How unusual is this? How many reactor accidents were there in total? I lost count.

Nicholas Gross

My dyslexia is apparent in this video.

Aaron Amick

6 out of 8 did not pass the missile test. That can mean many things.

Aaron Amick

I have an Echo class model, hand made, that graced an Echo class sub captain's cabin!

William R. Collier Jr.

Amazing amount of research and detail here, looking forward to the next one!

Nice work Jive. I can’t help but think of those poor crews.

Yes I believe it's a translation issue. Maybe melted the bearings or just overheated and deformed. You don't need much fast heating or vibration in turbines to go out of the clearances, have contact and the whole thing just blows up like a shrapnel bomb.

If you over-rev a turbine I can think of few outcomes - the turbine disk might shatter, turbine blades might get ripped out, bearings might overheat and plasticity deform or the shaft at the bearing might deform from the heat generated by overloaded bearings. I do not think the steam would melt the turbine, the heat generated by the mechanism perhaps could. It's possible for whoever wrote the report to write it in shorthand fashion.

pin_die

What was a SSGN doing trailing an SSBN? What a strange twist of fate.

Faris Asim Shaikh

Awesome brief Jive! That safety record, holy crap, more like failure record. Remind me to run if I ever see a echo submarine.

IKR?

Andrew MacDougall

Wait.. they MELTED their turbines? I smells something fishy here... Water steam does not melt steel turbines...

USS Tautog: the only American submarine return to port with twice as many propellers as she set out with. Admittedly spares are a good idea, but I don't think that was what was intended here.

Andrew MacDougall

Not to be critical Jive but I heard quite a few errors in your reading of the script of the "1963 (really 1973)" variety. You need to slow down and read the script more carefully. Record the audio in short segments instead of all at once and proof-listen to yourself on each one. These are the kind of errors that come of fatigue from long periods of work of researching and reading the materials. We all deeply appreciate what you do but especially for the audio-only version which you can't spot the error from the visual materials that could prove a problem if these are being made "for the record" (which I hope they are as they are very good) rather just disposable entertainment.

Andrew MacDougall

58:00 Murphy assures you it was indeed the same reef.

Andrew MacDougall

"6 out of 8 to actually work" which means what exactly? only 6 out of 8 will fire and leave the launch tube? 6 out of 8 will reach the target (i.e. guidance, autopilot, radars and data links will work)? 6 out of 8 will achieve a hit?

Andrew MacDougall