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Somenew owner I haven't heard of sent an e-mail saying the site is much improved (guess they're not getting many hits). Took a quick look - the site is sponsored by Earl Stewart's company. Earl is also the lead moderator. Window dressing?

Youy guys here have done a tremendous job!
 
Akula,

Jim Nowka is trying to revive KFC. He is a good guy based on my conversations with him. Let's all wish him good luck in his new venture.

Diversity in the forums is what keeps everyone fresh. Imagine if there was only one TV network, one knife magazine or one long distance company.

Earl Stewart has been though a lot this past year so he needs a break himself.

Let's be good.

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BTW,

I used to track Akula (Typhoon) class subs while in the USAF using MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detection). They supposedly had Low Magnetic Metal hulls designed by S.N. Kovalev. It did not work very well as we could not only track them but recognize each by their sigs.

There was no #57 so how did you get your name?

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I wish him good luck and hope he does well.

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I like it over there. I can delete the DDP (dreaded double post).

There are fewer members and fewer posts or traffic. But it is busy enough to be interesting. And the atmosphere there has changed.

I wish them well. And I agree with Mike that diversity is good. That's why I like ******** ****** also
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Mike,

Maybe there was a 57, the one you never detected?

Have you read _Bind Man's Bluff, The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage_ by Sontag and Drew? It's a great and engrossing book. You'd probably like it very much.



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I wish them luck too. I've always felt things got too slow over there because of the tech probs and the fact that in the Tactical type forums, just about everything was covered. The only things generating discussion were new products.
 
They don't make up new words to name submarines AFAIK. What's an akula? There must be something they named the submarine after....

-Cougar Allen :{)
 
Akula is Russian for Typhoon.

There was no 57.

Here are the Akula class subs built.

  • TK-208.
    Laid down on March 3, 1977. Launched on September 23, 1980, and commissioned on December 12, 1981.
  • TK-202.
    Laid down on October 1, 1980. Launched on April 26, 1982, and commissioned on December 28, 1983.
  • TK-12.
    Laid down on April 27, 1982. Launched on December 17, 1983, and commissioned on December 27, 1984.
  • TK-13.
    Laid down on January 5, 1984. Launched on February 21, 1985, and commissioned on December 29, 1985
  • TK-17.
    Laid down on 24 February 1985. Launched in August of 1986, and commissioned on November 6, 1987.
  • TK-20.
    Laid down on 6 January 1987. Launched in June 1988 and commissioned in September 1989.

TK-233 was started but never finished.

I could tell you some really scarry stories too. Funny ones as well where we alomost rescued an Akula!


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