My family immigrated to the US in ‘82…only saying this because communism wasn’t profitable for the country except for the few hundred members at the top (the Politburo) who don’t know how to conduct business therefore things go downhill fast. Look at Cuba’s state of affairs as copied from the Soviet model. Also remember their finances were in shambles not only due to the system itself, but the disaster in Afghanistan (‘79).

And yet a traitor was telling the Soviets where all the boats were, all of the time.

John Anthony Walker. To an extent. Even the US Navy didn’t know where subs were all the time. They knew the “box” we were assigned to patrol, the path there, the path back and the time we were supposed to show up in port. Any Soviet vessel entering our patrol area would be detected long before they got near us. We did not transmit our location. That is why it took 5 months to find the USS Scorpion after it imploded, and that was only because Navy hydrophone stations around the ocean heard the implosion and they could triangulate on it and provide a search area. He did do a lot of harm though.

@@philbeattie6935 like Lenin said. U always have useful idiots.

lol stop lying and trying to be liked.

Thank you for your service Bonesaw. Have you seen the azure blue water?

Thank you for your service. A neighbor of mine served on one of our Nuclear Boats in the 80s. He told me a lot, but I am sure there is a lot more he could not speak of.

Nobody asked and your wrong stop feeding mis information

@@user-oj9iu2yr1w what are you on about?

Cherenkov radiation, completely normal phenomenon.

Thanks for spoiling it💯

and US navy rescued the remaining abroad K-19, thats more overwhelming

They were heros!

It is not like they had a choice

@@borcemiovski Yes they did!! Those men deliberately chose to sacrifice themselves to avert a world threatening catastrophe: and their actions were successful.

All of us with sense.

Not me

Im getting sick of the arrogant british guys refusing to show the crimes of the british empire in their own documentary expose and so is the asian middle eastern and african world lol read the comments on the gadaffi one

You pay for premium but you still somehow get ads.

So do i

Which boats?

But the people who designed Russian reactors should be shoved into one. So many shortcuts to get performance.

@@icecold9511 I don''t think you can blame the engineers either, as they were forced to cut corners and as a result delivered unsafe boats. The politicians are the ones who should have been shoved in there, they're the ones who pressured everyone else into a dangerous situation. But that's a tale as old as time, sadly.

The reactor cooling system was down and those techs had to enter the highly radioactive REACTOR COMPARTMENT to repair it, not the engine room. My hat is off in celebration to those brave souls who entered that compartment to perform those heroic acts knowing that their lives were compromised. RMCS(SS)GWest USN RETIRED.

And the criminal negligence of Russian navy for shoddy reactor design and no radiation suits.

It would have been wonderful to have a GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR. Now please let us pray for a GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR that wipes out the entire planet. Oh how I would love to write about the aftermath of a GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR. Please do start a GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR IMMEDIATELY!

@@bohemoth1 Edgy teen, get out of your mom's basement for once.

Was there a movie with Harrison Ford about that sub?

@@AnthonyParrilloRI Yes. It was called "K-19 - the Widowmaker". Excellent movie, take from a former submariner.

Brrrrrrr

me too, it’s so interesting & some aspects sound so absurd/borderline unreal

I lived through it...the rumors that would run around were crazy...for example, we heard a rumor that the Russians had a chemical weapon that could cause every cut you ever had in your life to open back up again and you would bleed to death

If you like the cold war and submaries, I hope you have read Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag as its about US Submarine Espionage through out the cold war.

@@davidparadis490 But you always knew MAD would always prevent WW3 because Nato and Russia were not suicidal. It still holds today.

That's fn cool!! I love subs & sub warfare!!

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Elektroboote Type XXI was not the first true submarine, on 2 counts: She still had to break the surface w/ her snort to let her diesels breathe, & allowing that nuke power is not the defining difference of a true sub, the WWI British R class was designed to operate submerged in her antisubmarine role, battery-powered speed being higher than diesel surface speed, w/ teardrop hull form & all-bow torp battery. An American Holland class also had her best speed submerged, but this was anyway close to the heart of Holland designs. The Japanese had some very fast submarines as well, starting w/ a prototype pre-Pacific War (I just love that expression). SSN 571's nuke power submerged performance drove everyone nuts, not just the Russians; imagine punching thru sonar cones @ 22 knots, 10 knots faster than peak effective pinging speed. The George Washington SSBN myth of actually cutting Skipjack hulls in half 2 install the SLBM batteries is bunk; the first boat had a few keelplates laid down, but the cutting was to the blueprints. And there were 5 of the class. There R plenty of other errors in the first third of this vid. In the early 1950s, Russia had over 400 subs; the west was in a near-permanent state of incontinence over this. And there were Alot of fun-n-games in 1968 alone; wonder when all of that will be declassified (not at all soon, I'm sure). Subs R beautiful 💙.

I doubt if the Typr XXI even if introduced earlier would have made the difference in the Battle of the Atlantic because of the breaking of the Kriegsmarine signal codes and the development of ASW weapons, Sonar, Hedgehog and Long Range MRA planes, like the Sunderland and Liberator.

Actually it wasn't. The Germans were on the right track, but hadn't solved the noise generation problem from the hull at higher submerged speeds. Nautilus was always intended as a test platform based on the XXI hull, but the one big problem it had was that its Sonar was useless over a few knots due to hull noise. That's what led to the change to the teardrop and cigar shaped hull designs.It took the Russians a bit longer to make the change.

The American post WWII conventional diesel electric TANG class submarines were built using the type XXI technology. And much better built than the Russian Soviet FOXTROT class. I toured a FOXTROT class boat in San Diego with two of my older fellow SubVets in 2009. We all three agreed that the Russian built boat was ghastly in it's crew habitation features, or lack there of.

@@jamesbugbee6812 The US Navy nickname for USSR submarine sonar that was first one produced during the Cold War was "Helen Keller"!!

Did you ever meet a Sonar Tech named Tom Evans? He is my brother in law. He got out in the early 80s. My brother was in from 62-75 also a Sonar tech. He even taught school in the late 60s. He was on fast attacks. I did one enlistment as a tech on P3s in the early 70s.

@@Chris_at_Home Can't say i knew Tom, my brother was also a sonar tech on uss tecumseh. Working on P3s had to be cool!!

@@Mike-jw4xh We are a Navy family. My brothers are quite a bit older. My other older brother was an ordnanceman in both P2s and P3s. He only did one enlistment. I met some of the guys he was in with that stayed in and were in my squadron. I grew up about 20 miles from Groton and even worked at EB a short time after I got out. I saw the first sections of the Ohio come together while working there. It wasn’t for me as I liked electronics more. I moved here over 40 years ago and retired from a very large communications company doing things like working the pipeline communications and the earth station that provides most of the communications for rural Alaska.

@@Chris_at_Home Former P-3C Orion Inflight Ordnanceman here (1990-1995). Cheers!

Thank you for your service and sacrifice.

What boat was your dad on? I served 1980 to 1988.

What boat did he command in the 80s ,you're dad and I could have been shipmates

wow thats so cool, im sure your dad told such amazing and immersive stories to you

Good for your Dad sir. Thats a brave man. Exciting stuff he had a bunch of stories about it I bet.

What boats?

Yes....

@@magedradwan2459 indeed….

Do you agree with my comment on your documentary video?

I was at Faslane in the 70's

BS

So your a commie

Of course they are your brothers. Both sides were protecting at home something that is EVIL at its core and that evil also works together without public knowledge, secretly conspiring to bring this world to an end. We are in the last of times were the most of the ordinary people finally understands that they were fighting the WRONG enemy all this time.....Even General Patton said the same words after the defeat of Germany..... from his diary: 2 September 1945 I had never heard that we fought to de-natzify Germany - live and learn. What we are doing is to utterly destroy the only semi-modern state in Europe so that Russia can swallow the whole.

Thanks for your service Christopher. From an Englishman who had uncles in RN Subs :)

They were interviewed after the fall of the USSR. They may even be from one of the Warsaw Pact countries that all declared independence after the collapse.

...is this your first ever documentary you ever watched ? what is this ?

the series dated back to 2002

@@Dinco422 I watch documentaries all the time but I have never seen this Particular one

@@Dinco422 why so snarky 🤷🏾

Really....What boat, rate, and what years?

@@CYBERVISIONSdotCom USS CHEYENNE SSN773 SK2(SS) 2003-2007

@@JimmyJ-6920 How'd you manage to swing E-5 in 4 years?

@@CYBERVISIONSdotCom When I made E-5 I was Frocked 6months before then started getting paid for it 2 months before I got out

@@JimmyJ-6920 What I'm trying to understand is that Chops aren't a Tech Rating, & don't (or didn't that I remember) have any accelerated advancement (e.g., post-A School AEF pushbutton). FYI - STS1(SS), SSN-653, '81-'88.

I remember it well. -Lived in Norway 🇳🇴 at the time. *Monumentally* interesting occurrence ! (Sorry about my over-enthusiasm there) 😉 (But it really was)! -Cheers, Karl Trausti from Iceland 🇮🇸

Also: The Soviet sub had nuclear torpedoes on board -(but not ICBM's). -This was confirmed by close-up readings from a Swedish SBS-rubber-dinghy. The whole situation was *VERY* tense. At one time the Soviet navy came sailing in at speed. At 12 km's they were (of course) covered by radar. -When they reached the 4 km's distance line, the 🇸🇪 Swedish radar switched over to "frequency jumping" (wich is basically when they are going to fire) ...that made the Soviet armada ✋ stop - at only 4 km's ! -Eventually Soviet tugs were allowed to come and drag the sub from the reef. -Later it was discovered that the Soviet sub had orders to detonate the nuclear torpedoes if attempts had been made to board them. -Not many people know this (really❗) ...but this was in fact one of the absolute most tense incidents of the cold war ! (I've only given an overview of the happening here -hope you find it interesting) 😬 -Cheers from 🇮🇸 Karl Trausti Barkarson. 😃

@@karlbark that must've been nerve racking. How do you feel about the alleged "maneuvers" done by the US Navy possibly done to escalate hostility between Sweden and the USSR? And on a personal note, how do you feel about the current situation of Sweden joining NATO?

The incident was dubbed "Whisky on the rocks"

Absolutely. I kept waiting…

Unfortunately, after Rickover goaded and cajoled the USN and WEC into developing the first successful PWR Nuclear Steam Supply System suitable for the Nautilus, for undisclosed political reasons (probably because personally he was being marginalized for being a demanding SOB), he later on went from being a proponent to PUBLICALY going on the record as an antagonist, basically claiming the "monster" he created was being mishandled when it came to waste disposal, de-commissioning, etc. This was ironic in the light of the fact that under HIS command, initially the Nautilus publicly was rushed into being launched under battery power only, without the working NSSS in place!

I served on the Nautilus as a caretaker. Up in Groton. You cant go a day without seeing his face posted somewhere. But yeah as odd as he was. Perfection and redundancy is never a bad Thing when it comes to Nuclear Power. Also He was the Director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program during my first 2 years in His program. I served also under the Next 3 Directors as well. When the 1MC announces Naval Reactors Arriving. Even the CO Jumps. And these Directors were really good at surprise Visits. Gosh the stories the young officers told me about HGR during their required interviews.

oh no you were not, stop making stuff up.

Very cool!

Very cool indeed! Did you ever hear anything truly unusual while using this system, along the lines of the infamous "Bloop signal" ?

@@SevenSixTwo2012 we heard sooooo many odd things. They ranged from crackling sounds to whoops. To the best of my knowledge we never heard anything that wasn’t later explained. To the schmuck who said no I didn’t just search SOSUS, Nishimura or Clark.

@@kaptainkaos1202 Awesome stuff, thanks! Exploring the deep must be just as mysterious and exciting as exploring other planets. Not only regarding natural occurrences, but also with the latest info about declassified UAPs / USOs by the US Navy. There appears to be many things we still don't know about our oceans.

U-Boat, Windows 91.

Any idea who originally made it?

'You shouldn't show your periscope more than a centimeter above the surface' - what a load of old rubbish. You would not see a thing if you did that.

Hi from Serbia

@@petarswift5089 Καλημέρα (good morning) Serbian friend.

Hi from London

@@sexynelson100 Καλημέρα (good morning) London.

Aye! ⚓️

@@dtaylor10chuckufarle I'm surprised they did not mention him despite the fact he has to submarines named after him.

My mom & dad (submariner) said Rickover was a**hole.

I was in a cab today with a Kenyan, who told me about how on really low ranking politician in Kenya was being investigated by the fraud office, three officers were visiting his home were the local politician offered a drink to the fraud officers, which they accepted, and he took the chance and jumped out the window and tried to run away. They caught him, and found $400,000 in cash in a suitcases, in his bedroom, all in $20 notes alarming isn't it? Politicians the world over serve themselves instead of the people they are meant to.

Russian and history major here. There is a lot that the average person does not know which went on "behind the Iron Curtain"

@@ramsesv5339 Like?

There's quite a well-known saying which (in effect) says that one of the biggest differences between Russians and Americans is that at least the Russians usually know/realise when their government is lying to them)

Now you're talking.

No electronic trim? No digital GPS? You must have been on last cruise, as Lee was decom'ed in 1983.

601(b) & combined crew for 3rd overhaul Aug75- Aug77

Did the mess cooks also had to complete Submarine School?

@@dkoz8321 yes that’s the first step just to get on subs For some unknown reasons when I finished qualifying as a Nuke at S-1-W prototype they didn’t send nukes to sub school but I’ve heard nukes are going many considered it a vacation for nukes

@@clearingbaffles Did you have to survive interview with Admiral Caligula? Turns out that my brother's wife's mother is related to Adm. Rickover.

Took her two whacks, too! :)

@@TheSanityInspector Isn't that considered a bad omen, if the bottle doesn't shatter in the first attempt?

I saw her too. How young back then

Her? A class act? Maybe if you mean her looks in which case you need to brush up on your English. In her character and morals she is definitely not a class act.

Wow. Dr Teller was amazing. He understood the West was better than any despotism

Dr teller ,had put up with 3 despotic nations hitlers germany hungarys ties to the axis,and as a jdw being sent to auschwitz,and when the germans surrendrred .Hungary became a soviet sattelite state.

Have you read the book; "BLIND MAN'S BLUFF US submarine operations during the cold war?" There is actually a documentary based on the book.

Is it true the old Soviet fleet was more of a threat than what they have now due to low maintenance and funds lack of new submarines? Kursk was hit with a torpedo I still believe on accident and Russia and isa covered it up to avoid all our war. Opinion on that ?

This is an old show bro

Yeah right

Now that many nations have AIP technology, the smaller boats have a clear advantage close to shore in brown and green-water environments.

Diesel electrics are always terrifying. Anything running on batteries has very little need to make noise.

Modern nuclear subs are not Russian subs of the era or even American subs of that era . they are safer than diesel subs today

Hey fellow Bubble Head. I commissioned the USS Dace in 1964 and we were assigned to SUBDEVGRU2 as a replacement for the Thresher. I don't know if the event is still classified but right after we fired a wire-guided torpedo at the USS Hardhead, they stopped snorkeling and the torpedo ended up in their fairwater.

I'll let you know after I ask my six eyed blue whale friend

Thats why you send in the oldest person first.

GOD AWFUL THOSE POOR DEVILS UGH

Dying

Still, don't forget to consider all of the technology developed for war that HAS improved human life. Nuclear power, the GPS system, the Internet, etc... It seems that war is a double edged sword.

@@SD-pi9co - Did you read and get the fundamental point in my last section?

@@SD-pi9co ALL of the solid state (including I.C.) is the direct benefit of the combination of Space and Military Research! (One example: The smaller and more reliable the guidance system is, the bigger the warhead that you can fit inside of the missile's body!) (Or make a pacemaker with the more powerful ICs, along with hearing aids, radios that don't use up portable batteries in a hour or so... (yes, I was a kid when that was happening. A transistor radio was a big improvement, but about the size of 6 "smart" cellphones stacked together (thin side))!) Laptop and Desktop tech are almost always declassified military hardware!

Edward Teller never made American military/political policy.

Teller made a very strong impact in the developing of the Hydrogen bomb. In fact, he is considered to be its 'father'. He was also a great supporter and a driving force for an unassaiable arsenal of nuclear weapons in general, a basic for the arms race, not only during the Cold War but also the present threat these weapons forge. Anyone who truly understands the insanity in this and how many times humanity have been just minutes or seconds away from a nuclear ragnarok, and what pure luck or last minute decisions that have avoided it, knows how important it is to ban these weapons. Again, for those who inevitably argue with how much military science, research and techological development has contributet to civil society - try to imagine what the world would be like if all this work had directly benifited civil society and peaceful measures in the first place.

I Like Submarine Launching Videos. The gals who get to Christian them are always alarmed when the bottle breaks or doesnt break on the first whack. And they always get sprayed on. Not sure when they started putting the Champagne bottles in a "bottle enclosure" to minimize the glass shatter.

If I may, I would like to recommend the book; Blind Man's Bluff: US Submarine Operations During the Cold War.

A KNOX-CLASS ASW-FRIGATE NO?

@@jonathanstrong4812 yup. FF 1096. She still looks good.

Only once, officially that is....

The press humorously called it "whiskey on the rocks"

THAT WAS A BIT UNPLEASANT FOR THE SOVIET-SUBMARINE-COMMANDER GULAG I SUPPOSED

The US armed forces hasnt been keeping your land safe, they have just un-provoked been killing innocent civilians left and right since the Korean war. Japan was the last time you fought for a real reason

Nice,I like your take.

He died a few years ago but I agree. If he could talk about the crazy secret stuff he did….yikes. You should get his book The Silent War, by John Craven. It’s amazing if you’re into this stuff like I am. Blind Man’s Bluff, Dark Waters and Undersea Warriors. Best books about secret submarine stuff in existence!

@@towedarray7217 That's a bummer he has passed. R.I.P Mr. Craven... I've seen the doco they made on Blind Man's Bluff, of the same name which I really enjoyed, and I do have the book, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet. I'll sus out the other three you mentioned for sure, Thanks.

@@mattbriody7575 The book is better, but has major errors, in particular the picture of 3 of us surfaced at the North Pole in 1986. It was a major Naval Historical event - and they screwed up the caption. I still use one of the pics as my YT channel background image.

@@towedarray7217 I met up with Bob Ballard back in the 90s and spent some time with Edward Beach during my days Attached to Nautilus. Beach spent alot of time at the Museum researching things. He was a fixture around the place. He had alot of stories in his arsenal about his WW2 Experiences. He wrote many books on the subject of Submarines and The US Navy. I have a signed copy of Run Silent Run Deep back in 1996.

I remember that! Grapes never showed any mercy towards Swedes playing in the NHL...or Finns or Czechs etc unless they dropped the gloves and fought lol

LOL

One hit a rock and got stuck in the Swedish archipelago, it was a whiskey class submarine. Whiskey on the rocks 😂

There was one Soviet sub, the rest was Italian build subs controlled by Reagan's administration.

The word is smart, not scared. But the word "smart", North Americans do not know the meaning of.

Felt the same way

Very well said. At times this was heavily biased, at many times utterly shameful and ridiculous. So unprofessional...but marxists don't even mean to be professional.

Got the photos?

@@bmw_m4255 Nope. I didn’t feel like doing time in Leavenworth Military Prison for stealing Secret and Top Secret information.

As a retired US Submarine sailor I want to thank you for your comment about us. So very kind of you.

I would have washed out of submarine school. I am don't do well in enclosed spaces with no windows. I don't even do well in airplanes on a gate delay sitting on the tarmac. I want out!

poor Casper

NOT FUNNY!

NOT FUNNY!

If you could afford the micro computer system (Cray, Sun, IBM (not PC's) )!