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Alpha SSN Sub Brief (Patreon)

Published:
2020-01-01 18:01:22
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2020-06-09 18:49:57
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Alexander

Hey Jive, thanks for another great one. I was always impressed by the Alpha-Class and I know now rightly so. I also totally agree with your point about the chinese Navy. But this is by far not the only similarity to the Soviet Union China has so many Zombie Companies wich are kept alive by ever growing debt. Of which nobody hears from because they do not building Iphone's!!!

Burn Hard

Hey Jive. Over the course of the year, maybe as early as February, I will visit the Wilhelm Bauer, the last of the Type VII boats still in existence. If you'd like, I could take a camera with me on the tour of the boat and shoot some photos, provided of course it is permitted. Any interest?

El Portal24

When metal cooled reactors get wet bad things happen. That is why US stop using them after first sub. BTW it really ticks me off that they build these things and then can't afford to decommission them. Everyone involved should send them the bills. Great Video - I believe the future of attack subs will go that way. Smaller and faster, more automated, working with drones.

Eric

Very nice. Will this and the Soryu one be released as .mp3?

Phil Wood

Fascinating brief as always; this design could have changed the undersea warfare world. The soldier in me is glad it failed, the scientist........we’ll he died in a freak yachting accident!

Aaron Amick

Yes, I will get both of those up by Friday.

NZ Mariner

It is fascinating what this sub was able to achieve in regards to the time period they were active. Thanks for another excellent brief.

Robert Sanges

I like hearing your insights from a sonarman's perspective. I was a nuke during much of this time, so you know how little we were taught about our adversaries (or even our own capabilities). I've learned more from these briefs than I was ever told while in the Navy. I could fix an electrostatic precipitator though!

Aaron Amick

lol. I remember the percipitators....that's about all.

Mark Keogh

Really disappointed the interior isn't as smoky and atmospheric as Captain Tupolev's Alfa :(

Mark Keogh

It's a form of nuclear blackmail really. There is so much corruption in Russia that even if they did fund decommissioning their own reactors, someone would pocket the cash and simply scuttle the reactor at sea :/

Dawn R Alderman

Fascinating piece about an absolutely amazing machine.

PAUL LIM

The US used a Sodium cooled reactor. The coolant in the Alfa was Lead bismuth and thus does not share that disadvantage when the primary coolant is contaminated with water.

Seahour

Really great Jive! So much stuff I knew nothing about. Thanks so much!

Whitzwolf

Thanks for another amazing detailed sub brief Jive. An absolute icon, the Alfa.

Blair Siegel

Thanks Jive great work on this. I really enjoy the personal touches that you add from your own experience encountering the opposition subs.

pin_die

A work buddy of mine is a sailor and amateur mechanic, he was browsing trough a book I showed him and when reading chapter about Alphas pointed at the page and said: "40 thousand horsepower, that's the number I needed to know". You can drive a boat at 20 knots with diesel and batteries but by the time you reach 40 you are looking at dual nuclear reactors. Drag scales with square of speed IIRC.

El Portal24

I know... but the 255F+ temperature of molten LBE Lead and LBE coolant are more corrosive to steel than sodium, and this puts an upper limit on the velocity of coolant flow through the reactor. And the higher melting points of LBE has solidification of the coolant may be a greater problem when the reactor is operated at lower temperatures. So they have run it hot. then with neutron radiation bismuth-209, the main stable isotope of bismuth present in LBE coolant, undergo neutron capture and subsequent beta decay, forming polonium-210, a potent alpha emitter. The presence of radioactive polonium in the coolant would require special precautions to control alpha contamination during refueling of the reactor and handling components in contact with LBE. In other words the coolant becomes radioactive over time. It is the perfect Russian reactor, runs hot and fast, then becomes a solid block of Polonium. Unless there is a leak and then you have superheated radioactive mess.

TheFreaker86 .

isn't it possible to heat up the coolant to the point it becomes liquid again? or is it too much effort/too dangerous?

majgijoe

Go to 105 on the reactor.

navydave32

Excellent, Jive! Great brief.

Paul D Berkebile

We tried a liquid metal reactor in Seawolf (SSN-575), our second nuclear powered boat. Before she was even done with sea trials, Adm. Rickover decided to axe the Liquid Sodium reactor.

StygianFury

awesome brief jive, Really impressed by the design of the Alpha. I was curious if its invincibility to the weapons at the time included SUBROC? I know its nuclear payload would make it a last ditch attack, but i wondered if the nuclear depth bomb could be overcome by the Alphas speed.

Aaron Amick

The nuclear depth bomb would destroy it if it hit it with the shock wave.

Mario Sergio Porto

Please verify. I know that there are some confusion and misinformation on the sources, but the reactor BM-40A with 2 loops, not the OK-550 with 3 loops were installed on Project 705K.