[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Instar:

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
The Soviets probably built the most state of the art stink boats, some were even boomers.

No offense, but thats plain wrong. The Soviet subs compared to American subs pretty much sucked. Soviet subs were loud. The November class lacked sufficient radiation shielding. The Akulas I think can go really fast, but make a bucketload of noise. Their boomers were the same way until recently. Soviet electronics were horrid, American electronic systems were far ahead (giving better sonar abilities to the US).
Now, the Soviets did have a few good ones, but the Los Angelos class (and more recently, SeaWolf, even though only 3) and Ohio class blow the heck outta anything in the water today.

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Stink boats are diesels only. I work with an ex-soviet submariner; he told me that they called the diesels stink boats. Evidently the air would get very foul when they were under for extended periods of time. I guess it was from all that cabbage they eat

AS to Nukes, the US Navy is the standard. No one else can afford to play the game these days. China is trying, but they are way behind.