Biggest Submarines: The Big, The Famous And The Surprising

"the only submarine I know of of with a swimming pool...well and intentional one" lol

Size isn't everything. Russians made things larger because that is the typical "Eastern" or Asian way to go about things; you gotta PROJECT strength, not necessarily be stronger. 💪

Pretty good . Typhoon is amazing.

I'm pretty sure the Kursk had a swimming pool!
Too soon?

...so why exactly would "...double hulls be bigger than single hulls, all else equal..."?

...if "all else [is] equal", wouldn't all of the ballast etc. than can be stored in the external hull have to be fit into a single hull in anyways? In other words, whether you store the gear in a single hull or have it in a secondary, outer hull it would still have to be there and take up the same amount of space...

...lolz...it really sounds like you're saying "HM Essex 1"...which would be a hilarious sub...

"The only submarine with a swimming pool. At least an intentional one."

Ha!

This speaking with pauzes 🤮
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I got to walk around an Ohio class sub back in the year 2000 and the thing that surprised me the most was just how large it actually was.

Sounds scripted.

Stop smacking your lips

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I'm very curious to understand why modern submarines stopped implementing perpendicular and rear torpedo tubes? To me that seems like an obvious advantage, but I'm obviously not a submarine expert..... anyone care to enlighten my ignorance?

Absolutely AWESOME video....but hearing the first US nuclear missile sub named Ethan Allen class STILL has me roaring laughing!!!!

Top quality content.

You forgot the BRAND NEW SSB WISCONSIN CLASS! Too long (1125") and too wide (165') to pass through the locks in the Panama Canal!!! My Cousin is a Master Chief Petty Officer in charge of Environmental Control. I toured his "boat" and it is AMAZING!!! "Sherwood Forest" is about 7-8 STORIES tall with 48 silos. "Boystown" and "Girlstown", the enlisted quarters are privacy roomettes and luxurious, the PO and Chiefs and Quarter Masters (and the four Warrants) rooms are cruise ship type while "Officer's Country" is palatial. The Captain is a nice man and the XO a nice woman. Four Lt. Commanders for each watch, three men, one woman-I'd guess a compliment of 500+ total. THEY WEAR BELL BOTTOMS (Enlisted) from the uniform store in New Orleans with 27" bells like the 1922 Naval Uniform and piped Pinafores and look like a MILLION DOLLARS lined-up for inspection with GOB hats! Dickies dungarees (bell-bottom pants) for work details with blue GOB hats! The six "Super-Boomers" are old-school Navy. ALL officers are "SIR". The families were fed a LAVIOUS buffet-I ate at the XO's table. The "Supers" NEVER come with-in sight of land. Timmy is the "Gold" crew. He earns 6 figures or very close to it. 100% titanium hulls...mike speed at below cavitation depth (about 250 meters) 77 knots (85 MPH) mike depth CLASSIFED but DEEPER than ANY normal part of the Atlantic (at LEAST 400 meters) she has "several" thrusters, little outboard motors, totally silent that can move her SIDEWAYS if needed WITHOUT the reactor running for a LONG time. Quote the XO "Wanna find us? Find the quietest place in the ocean, and THAT'S US!" "We hide in schools of shrimp or whales or sardines."

Wasn't there at least one mission where an I-400 class launched planes that fire bombed the US Pacific Northwest?

How do the submarines keep water out, the shaft is connected to the engine and it is a rotating mass, any gasket would wear out over time and when the submarine is subjected to high pressures while diving wouldn't that leak water into the interior? How do they manage to pull that off? Awesome content, got interested in this stuff after the TITAN submersible fiasco.

I built a Typhoon class submarine, & it was known as the "Red October", & I landed up putting it in a fish tank, & I also built a German "U-Boat",& also the "Titanic 🚢", & I gave it to a mate. It looked awesome!

Dude good video but damn you gotta stop your mouth noises. Smacking your lips and

What's the difference between a "High Angle" gun and a howitzer? They seem to imply the same thing, no?

I recognized your British accent.😊

Submarines can hide by going under water.

TY a sub talk about sub history that was perfectly narrated

In fear of repeating the obvious and previously stated; you do very good work sir.

that is a BIG SUB but the pool is a nice idea.

that surcouf is sexy asf

please don't apologize for being unscripted-- it indicates that you know your stuff and not copying from Wikipedia or Military Factory, etc.

Question : does an EMP torpedo exist?

the last Typhoon is in unseaworthy disrepair, there's been no maintenece of any kind. yet, this sub is put back to seas over and over again. you can bet that this worn out beat up sub is nolonger quite, and the Seawolves can find her when they want.

Love the videos and the information BUT the lip smacking is a lil annoying and distracting

Navy UK for 11 years. Nobody during the 60's ever mentioned such monsters lurking beneath our little frigates/destroyers.
Submariners forbidden to mention such stuff, explains their smirk distain of us sun bathed fish-heads lounging on deck.

Recent subscriber : really enjoying your diagnostic approach to these complex beasts, helps fill in many blanks in my knowledge 👍🍻🇨🇦

For Americans .... Meccano is the British equinalent of Erector sets.

I'm curious about the gun turrets. How do they shoot after being submerged underwater? I would think if they are constantly flooded with water that it would cause all sorts of problems to make them operational on the surface.

I wish that you went into the capebilities of ships.

Excellent video, even if it was "unscripted" as you say. I've had the privilege of being on board an Ohio, and when you mentioned that the Typhoon was TWICE the size, my eye caught one of the little drawings of a 3-high rack (sleeping bunk for the folks following along), I about lost it dude! That thing is big! It's a shame all we ever see of it is that old nasty rusted pool and the Soviet sauna, because man, they must have built an incredible piece of equipment. Also, hats off to the Soviets for giving their boys a sauna and a swimming pool (though I doubt very seriously that's the reason they made the thing so large). If the US made a sub that large, I stagger to think how much firepower and capability we would cram into something that massive.

Great comment: only one with a swimming pool - - intentionally.

"simular" should be pronounced "similar:

"Typhoon only had 20 missile tubes due to political reasons"
How would this be possible given these were developed at the same time? Given how much development is needed, there's no way the Soviets saw the Ohio and based design considerations on that because Typhoon was in development in 1976, and Ohio class was commissioned in 1981...

Ce belea a fost cand s-a dus dracului Kursk. Si ala, mai vechi, cu bombe atomice la bord, scufundat in Pacific, din care a scos jumatate, Hearst. Sa vezi ce-ar fi daca asta ar fi adevarat si s-ar duce naibii si el. Ca rusii au "mana buna" la pierdut submarine.

That smack …

Stop smacking your lips. I don't know why so many Brits do this.
It's so distracting and annoying.
Otherwise, good vid with lots of interesting info. Only a few mistakes.

The irony of a swimming pool on a ship has always been something to chuckle at.... But that of a swimming pool on a submarine is to comical to bear!!