Alpha SSN Sub Brief
Added 2020-01-01 18:01:22 +0000 UTC
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Please verify. I know that there are some confusion and misinformation on the sources, but the reactor BM-40A with 2 loops, not the OK-550 with 3 loops were installed on Project 705K.
2021-02-19 17:14:02 +0000 UTCThe nuclear depth bomb would destroy it if it hit it with the shock wave.
Aaron Amick
2020-10-03 10:11:33 +0000 UTCawesome brief jive, Really impressed by the design of the Alpha. I was curious if its invincibility to the weapons at the time included SUBROC? I know its nuclear payload would make it a last ditch attack, but i wondered if the nuclear depth bomb could be overcome by the Alphas speed.
2020-10-03 03:10:34 +0000 UTCWe tried a liquid metal reactor in Seawolf (SSN-575), our second nuclear powered boat. Before she was even done with sea trials, Adm. Rickover decided to axe the Liquid Sodium reactor.
Paul D Berkebile
2020-09-28 00:01:16 +0000 UTCExcellent, Jive! Great brief.
2020-09-14 14:01:55 +0000 UTCGo to 105 on the reactor.
majgijoe
2020-04-26 22:08:38 +0000 UTCisn't it possible to heat up the coolant to the point it becomes liquid again? or is it too much effort/too dangerous?
2020-01-22 20:28:19 +0000 UTCA work buddy of mine is a sailor and amateur mechanic, he was browsing trough a book I showed him and when reading chapter about Alphas pointed at the page and said: "40 thousand horsepower, that's the number I needed to know". You can drive a boat at 20 knots with diesel and batteries but by the time you reach 40 you are looking at dual nuclear reactors. Drag scales with square of speed IIRC.
pin_die
2020-01-05 21:46:21 +0000 UTC
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