Avimimus said:Is there any conceivable requirement for commercial submarines
Orionblamblam said:... Wait for pirates to board, then submerge.
skyrider said:How much they are going to charge for insurance for commercial cargo submarine? It will never work.
The old Soviet Union may have been just as familiar with Canada's Arctic waters as Canadians.
Sections of Cold-War-era nautical charts obtained by The Canadian Press suggest that Russian mariners have for decades possessed detailed and accurate knowledge of crucial internal waterways such as the Northwest Passage.
Those charts, which may offer the first documentary proof of the widely held belief that Soviet nuclear submarines routinely patrolled the Canadian Arctic during the Cold War, are still in use by Russian vessels. In some places, they are preferred to current Canadian charts.
George Allegrezza said:While Searching For Something Else (WSFSE?), I came across this 1981 General Dynamics proposal for submersible LNG tankers:
http://www.navalprofessional.com/vessels/submarine-carrier-proposed-dynamics-4482
The boats were intended to be 1470 ft long and could have nuclear or non-nuclear propulsion. The conops was to ship LNG from Alaskan waters to consumers in Europe and Japan.
Hi, do you still possessed that Italian historical magazine, I am interested in the submarine oil tankerfrom 'Storia Militare', an italian historical magazine, the project of a pre-WWII submarine oil tanker, with carachteristics.
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and, from the same source, drawings and characteristics of the transport submarines R class, of WWII, of the Italian Navy
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