I can’t imagine the constant mental training required just to ride in this thing, let alone hooking yourself up to and detaching from the SCUBA tubes in total darkness, memorizing who’s going to sit where, emerging onto the shoreline in 4-way defensive formation, etc. Wow. These warfighters are extremely detail-oriented, to say the least. Hats off to them all. Much respect.

Thank you! The MK8 Mod 0 was my boat back in the 90s. Back in the day, we would never have let you film in the compartment looking forward at the gadgets. That was 30 years go.

Been there, done that... Drysuit dive training at Bangor Subase, it was always the BEST time! 3 hour transits to, and then from the target at 8' depth in 28 deg, toasty warm. (SDVT-1, 1992-95)

Most interesting, thanks for the upload. Those my own country, France, operates have only been made public recently, although the third generation is now being delivered, we only heard about the whole program a handful of years ago.

Goes into detail how secret the SDV is and that it's highly classified! Then shows exactly how to operate it and interviews all the Navy Seals 😅

Mike Ritland (Mike Drop Podcast) was talking about riding in the mk5 for a little over 2 hours on their way to secure the oil pipelines, refineries, etc right before the warranty kicked off. The largest SOF mission in the history of sof. There were over 150 operators. Pretty gnarly.

12 hours straight under water in that thing and you are a prune

They use two types, the SDV and another one. I forget the differences but I know one returns to ship on its own iirc. One is open and your in the water, I think that’s this one. Hell that might apply to both I just know there’s two different types they use. Been to long since I’ve looked up both vehicles to remember. Iirc I think both can be fitting to the Virginia class block five but I may be wrong, I know it has an unmanned drone sub they can use. Or it may be the Jimmy Carter because I know it had a SOF section added to it and is basically our spy sub!! I just remembered on a diagram of one they had one docked on top and another either on the bottom or maybe it launched thru the torpedo tube, I can’t remember exactly. They have so many toys I get them all mixed up lol

That takes some extremely calm nerves to get into. I wonder if ALL seals have the capability to get in that sub.

They should install a CD 💿 player with Bose speakers 🔊 for those dudes

How do they grip that joy stick with their flipper? I wouldn’t think they had the dexterity to do that….

at-least you cant feel the wind underwater

The one pictured in the thumbnail is from three or four generations ago…

"I don't know how long they ride in this thing" - up to 14 hours each way 😳

I can proudly say I supported this entire SOC platform for the SEALS.

I forgot to add that I like how you reference the term flying as we used to call it "flying the boat" as the joystick system is fly-by-wire like an aircraft. 😀

Great video. Is there any way you can set your KZfaq settings to enable closed captions? I'm deaf. It's free to do, but I don't know how to do it. Thanks for the videos! Enjoy your weekend.

ive always wanted to see the inside of one of these

Who's here after Joe Rogan !?

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I wonder what it must be like? Go into your darkened bedroom closet. Shut the door. For Ever.

That is awesome!!! I wonder if MARINE raiders have one ? 🏊🏻

Ohio still rules the Sea ❤ Weasel-o-Matic

We used to train doing Tactical Navigation Dives with an Attack Board. At night all you can see is the glowing of the gauges on the board (watch, compass, depth gauge). Around 30 minutes into that you get a really uneasy feeling, it's your mind reacting to Sensory Deprivation. The trick is to realize what's happening, and to focus past it. My guess is the SDV teams go through something very similar. SSG. U.S. Army (Medically Retired) Infantry / Sniper / SOF Intel (SOT-A), multiple tours

Hope its not a death trap

Wow ummm thanks

Looks like a fro-yo machine…

Are there any videos which show what these things do, or what Seals do? From any country, whether US, EU, Asia, whatever. Or just stories to google, anything to get some idea of what the point is. I think I've heard of uses in SEA. But I have no idea what they do, or are meant to do. I assume it's not, "we're going to get on a sub, sail to Yemen, put 4 Seals into a Yemeni port, play James Bond & assassinate a few guys, then get back on the sub". Unless you're talking about North Koreans. I assume it's more like, remove this spy equipment from near our submarine cables. Inspect/maintain these underwater microphones. Train your infiltration techniques in this Japanese port. I'd like to know more about how much risk they're willing to push. I doubt it'd be something like, "try to approach this Chinese warship docked in Indonesia, and attach this listening device to it". Maybe they try to snag submersible drones? I don't think there's a need for manned ground/sea-based surveillance/intelligence of unfriendly areas, like, "go station yourselves outside of this Pakistani port and watch for this boat to leave ? Maybe part of it is getting into shallow areas, where subs either can't operate safely (due to depth/terrain, or lack of concealment). Or stories about any other type of devices which get carried by subs, besides something like an SDV. It sucks that this stuff has been going on for probably 40+ years, but there aren't many well-known stories. I wish it was more like an Air Force mission, where there's a clear map of what happened, why & how it happened. What equipment was used, what the capabilities were, etc. Respect to the guys in the know who keep their mouths shut. I wish the stories got told after 15-30 years or some reasonable period of time. I read about a tracked sub (like, which drove on the sea floor on treads). I wish that kind of stuff got published on some kind of modern version of the Discovery/History Channel, or Popular Mechanics. Now we get idiocracy ancient aliens and ads :/

I think I like the old school sub were you ride like a horse and carry 2 men

Hard no

This feels illegal to watch

Iran and North Korea intelligence think they've hit gold with this video.

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Made by a team guy, donated it to the team guys

Can we see the submarine? Or only listen to blablablabla....