A radio is a vital device of any ship or submarine.US ships are very well equipped with shipboard supply rooms that carry hundreds of new assemblies,units and devices.How come they didnt here?If it was for dramatic purposes they could have at least said that the store room was flooded.They didnt even bother.In real life,someone would have run to the on ship store room and pulled out a new radio from a box.
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Yeah, because a submarine has plenty of extra space for rooms full of radios in boxes.
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Well an Ohio class submarine is pretty large.Larger than most US destroyers and roughly the same size as a Ticonderoga class cruiser
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There are a LOT of erroneous assumptions on your part.
Radios... Aren't some handheld device that comes in a box.
They're large systems.
Yes they do have spare PARTS, not spare whole radios.
It was fixing the radios with the parts that he was doing with his repairs.
Nor do they have store rooms full of just radio parts.
They have a limited amount of stores for various systems and devices throughout the entire vessel.
I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water!
Also the VLF radio isn't exactly an iPhone that works great when within 1 mile of a cell tower in downtown. This is a radio that receives messages when it's under water in the middle of the ocean a bit more complex piece of technology.
They probably could have surfaced and used conventional radio to verify the orders, but they were in Russian waters while a coup was happening. They already battled that Akula submarine from the opposition. Surfacing would give away their position and for all they knew the opposition could have had antisubmarine aircraft hunting them too.
Since when is the middle of the open North Pacific considered "Russian waters"?
I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water!
Oops my bad. My point still stands.
Surfacing would still give away their position to Russian aircraft and surface ships after they just did battle with a Russian fast attack sub. They have no clue how many others joined the opposition or are hunting them.
They have no clue how many others joined the opposition or are hunting them.
"They've seized the region by the Chinese
and North Korean borders.
That includes a submarine base...
from which they've surged
four Akula-class attack subs".
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WTF is your major malfunction?
How pathetic it is that you get your kicks out of annoying others.
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I was wondering not about spare parts, but about a secondary radio system.
Since the radio is so important, wouldn't it make sense to have a backup in case it doesn't work?
Do military submarines really only have one?
I was intrigued by the goofs/trivia section, where they indicated there are as many radios/radio systems as there are nuclear missiles on that boat.
sharei was more disturbed by him soldering something on that circuit board while it was still connected to the device that had electricity running through it, that was like super retarded.
All in all this move was a good satire and if someone thinks otherwise should have their brain examined.
Exactly especially for SSBNs.
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