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Submarine Sweater:

Runs small, so size up (Wear Large T-shirt, buy XL sweater).

If to be worn in uniform, appropriate Velcro can be purchased here:

https://www.amazon.com/COYOTE-BROWN-SEW-HOOK-FASTENER/dp/B074ZKZTD4/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1537963280&sr=8-10&keywords=Ameratex

If you are able to use the supply system:

8405-00-163-XXXX
S: 8907, M: 8906, L: 8905, XL: 8908.

There is no NSN for 2XL or larger, but can be purchased online.

If you are buying one for yourself, but don’t want to pay $60 for a brand new one from the internet, you can either call around to local surplus stores. They will know them as “five button army sweaters”. The best bet is likely eBay. The trick on eBay is to run searches where someone running the store didn’t describe it the best way. You’ll find many hits on “five button army sweater” but also, try the manufacturers. Try searching for “DSCP sweater” and “mitts nitts sweater” and a little extra digging may yield good results.

Lastly, almost all are now made out of acrylic. You will have an extremely hard time finding a newish condition wool one for a reasonable price.

Hopefully I'm still alive when this type of detail is released about the Jimmy Carter :)

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I also highly recommend looking into the Covert Shores book. It's an awesome read & I can't count how many guests of mine have picked it up & read the entire thing.

Colloquium Topic: Admiral Gorshkov: The Man Who Challenged the U.S. Navy.

Friday, August 30, 2019

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

https://www.usni.org/events/johns-hopkins-applied-physics-lab-norman-polmar

>Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei G. Gorshkov was the product of a tradition unlike those of his Western contemporaries. He had a unique background of revolution, civil war, world wars, and the forceful implementation of an all-controlling communist dictatorship. Out of this background of violence and overwhelming transformation came a man with a vivid appreciation of the role and value of navies, but with his own unique ideas about the kind of navy that the Soviet Union required and the role that navy should play in Soviet military and national strategy.
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>Western naval observers have persisted in attempting to define Admiral Gorshkov in Western naval terms. Many of these observers have been baffled when they found that the man and his actions simply did not fit conventional narratives. This book lays out the tradition, background, experiences, and thinking of the man as they relate to the development of the Soviet Navy that Gorshkov commanded for almost three decades and that was able to directly challenge the maritime dominance of the United States—a traditional sea power. His influence persists to this day, as the Russian Navy that is at sea in the twenty-first century is, to a significant degree, based on the fleet that Admiral Gorshkov built.

I'll add one - The Deadly Deep by Iain Ballantyne (American title, for EU it is called "The Deadly Trade"). The author participated in the big AMA we had last year and was very friendly and informative. The book is a "complete history of submarine warfare from Archimedes to the present". It isn't overly technical and it provides excellent commentary on the historical context of various sub-related developments. Ballantyne loves the odd little anecdotes and bits of history that are commonly left out of more focused works.

This book was written by WW2 captain and its awesome!
We had the ww2 battleflag in our mess hall. Pretty awesome.

It seems it's NR-1.

Source. Read the comments, they seem to be unanimous in their agreement and the Wikipedia entry puts the NR-1 at 148 feet.

I'd also recommend you pick up Dark Waters - a great account of the NR-1's career and spy missions!

If you want to get a feel for what's involved in designing a range of large scale submarines and some of the fundamental principles of how they operate (which should apply to all scales of sub), get a copy of Concepts of Submarine Design. Read it cover to cover then decide if you still want to build one.

Not trying to put you off, but they're complex and dangerous beasts and should be treated with respect, they can go wrong fast. If you still want to build one after reading, fair play!

Also maybe get The Astute Haynes Manual, it goes into a surprising amount of detail about the design and build programme of a nuclear submarine.

There are probably better books and videos out there specifically relating to submersibles.

Gray Lady Down is DSRV: the movie. I don't know anyone who wrote harder core sub fiction, maybe Richard P. Henrick?

The fun stuff really isn't talked about in the public eye. Charles Stross did a bit in his Laundry stuff, but I dunno if that's what you want.

edit: https://www.amazon.ca/Ecowar-Richard-P-Henrick/dp/0061006491

this sounds like a winner

If you're looking for more technical information on submarine development, check out Haynes owners' workshop manual for the Astute class. It gives a decent overview of what it is like developing a modern nuclear sub:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1785210718/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_AKCyCb5A3PV5F

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If you're interested in any of the politics behind the development of nuclear subs in the US, I would suggest Against the Tide: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NE6QZ88/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_gJCyCbQWBVMBR

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This website also gives a good overview about how submarines work in general: http://www.rickcampbellauthor.com/styled/index.html#topics

What I find kind of funny is the US thought for awhile soviet subs were better because they happened to be always there when they shouldn't be.. come to find out a spy had given out US submarines positions and they had infiltrated naval command. Soviet subs weren't better they just out smarted the US. If I remember right https://www.amazon.com/Stalking-Red-Bear-Submarines-Operations/dp/0312605536 was a good read on it was this book or another that talked about it.

>Wiki indicates that the second, SOSUS-sourced theories concerning MCP failure are fairly recent. Based just on what I read there I don't find them compelling.

Wikipedia is great, but I wouldn't trust it for something like this. The acoustic analysis that led to the conclusion that the Thresher sank due to an electrical bus failure and not a failed pipe brazing date to shortly after her loss and have only recently been discussed publicly.

The following sources may be of interest:

• CAPT James R. Bryant, USN (Ret), "Declassify the Thresher Data," USNI Proceedings (July 2018).
  
  
• Bruce Rule and Norman Polmar, "What Sank the Thresher," Navy Times (8 April 2013)
  
  
• Brue Rule to RADM Richard P. Breckenridge, USN, "Information and Security Issues Associated with the Loss of the USS THRESHER", 10 April 2013.
  
  
• Bruce Rule, Why the USS Thresher (SSN 593) Was Lost, (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Nimble, 2017).

The radar-picket sub is one of the LESS crazy ideas to come out of the early nuclear submarine boom.

I recommend this book if you're interested in reading about overall US and Soviet submarine development in the early days. Lots of questionable ideas being thrown around.

Soviets were definitely way more aggressive at pursuing oddball ideas than we were. Ended up with a lot of boats in the fleet that were one-offs or only a couple built. Having only three SSN21 boats is a logistical nightmare as it is, I couldn't imagine what it'd be like to have that many unique boats in the fleet...

Have you seen this series (now on Amazon)? "Following the story of the Royal Navy's legendary Perisher Course, "How to Command a Nuclear Submarine" charts the progress of five young officers putting their careers on the line in their bids to qualify to command a nuclear submarine."
I would be interested in your review. Also, I would assume the US Navy has a similar course for Prospective Commanding Officers, do you have any insight to compare the two courses?
https://www.amazon.com/How-Command-Nuclear-Submarine/dp/B074X89VG6

https://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-submarine-service-review/dp/1551250314

Grabbed it from the public library with some other treasures. And yes, those are Oberons. I don't have a date for the underhull.

Is this the book you’re referring to? https://www.amazon.com/dp/0304361208/

Is it mainly historical narrative, or does it have technical details as well? I’m much more interested in the latter.

I need to read it again.

Favorite military book for me, read once and then again on station, was Red Army by Ralph Peters, available on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Ralph-Peters/dp/1451636695

Its this one

https://www.amazon.com/Hobby-Boss-Russian-Submarine-Building/dp/B001BHI6NE

I liked this kit so much and it’s inexpensive so I purchased several. I have 3 different ones I’ve built posted on reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/modelmakers/comments/9wtpnq/progress_on_my_typhoon_diorama/?st=JOIYUXGX&sh=70a2b2b7

if you have a Amazon prime accout there is an interesting movie streaming that tries to argue a different explanation. take for what you will

https://www.amazon.com/Kursk-Submarine-Troubled-Jean-Michel-Carr%C3%A9/dp/B01MTZ4L61