nuclear subs 2k away from my school

[Big RICHARD]

Originally posted by wilsonian
i think he ment the missles

What missiles?

[Stoo]

I've got Sizewell A, B, and C just a few miles down the road..

There has been a campaign to make sure that everyone in the predicted fallout radius can get the pills etc speedily.

Oh, and there's some sort of nice big dogfighting area just off the coast here, makes for nice quiet summers..

[Richie]

Originally posted by Big RICHARD
The base is called HNMB Clyde! It is in Faslane in Scotland.

Ok, if you want to be pedantic then its officially called Clyde Naval Base as a whole but the correct name of the base itself (sub part) is Faslane... There aint NO town or area called Faslane, Faslane IS the base.

[Big RICHARD]

HMNB Clyde

HM Naval Base Clyde is in Faslane!

[pyro]

Originally posted by Big RICHARD
All Royal Navy submarines have a nuclear power plant. This negates the need for refuelling and means that a submarine can go for months at a time without surfacing or returning to base.

I got this off google...wow...

The Vanguard class submarine's main nuclear powered propulsion system is based on the second-generation Rolls-Royce PWR 2, which was developed specifically for the Vanguard Class. Current generations of PWR allow submarines to circumnavigate the world about 20 times, whereas the latest development of PWR would allow circumnavigation 40 times without refuelling.

40 freaking times!!! Now I know that maybe they won't have enough food, but still...that's a lot of plutonium stuck in there!

[Big RICHARD]

Originally posted by pyro
I got this off google...wow...



40 freaking times!!! Now I know that maybe they won't have enough food, but still...that's a lot of plutonium stuck in there!

I didn't get any of my information off google......

[pyro]

I wasn't talking about your info dude, I was talking about the quote under talking about circumnavigating 40time around the globe.

[Big RICHARD]

Originally posted by pyro
I wasn't talking about your info dude, I was talking about the quote under talking about circumnavigating 40time around the globe.

Sorry, bit of a stupid misunderstaning there! It is pretty impressive isn't it?!

As you said the limiting factor is now the man power on board the sub.

[pyro]

Nah, my bad! I don't really understand why there are sailors in the sub's, I mean, all you need is the people to guide it, the technitians, and someone to be in command, right?

[Allen]

I know it's only innocent talk but some of the stuff that has been posted here might be classified and I don't think we should divulge the whereabouts of nuclear sub bases and nuclear weapon manufacturing plants to just anyone in the world.

Maybe I'm just being a bit paranoid in this day and age of terrorism though.....

[Richie]

Beleive me, anything "classified" wont be accessible from the offical Royal Navy website or any other net sites.


Security at the place is high class... Failing to stop at the gates after 1 warning ends up in a bullet riddled car.

[Pete]

yeh and theres always that place in the navada desert that is sposed to be completly secret but thats all over the web,
ever since this journalist flew over it and took some pics of it after which he posted them on the web and a few months later he and his family and close friends are sposed to have dissapeared.....
interesting very interesting

[spazman]

just did some maths, each vanguard sub can cary 16 seperate missles, each missle can carry 12 MIRVS (mini-missles that break off main missle on re entry) each mirv can carry 120kt of nuclear payload. Thats 192 mirvs at 120kt each meaning 23,040kt of explosive force in each sub the bomb that dropped on hiroshima was 20kt that makes each sub 1152 times more powerfull than 1 hiroshima bomb. Scary stuff!

EDIT: By international law sub can only carry 48 MIRVS so thats 2760kt

[Oakey]

Three Mile Island was in Japan wasn't it?

[Yosh]

if a plane flys within 2 miles of protsmouth without responing to radio messages it can be shot down.

lmao..

How come the rest of us havent heard about this?

[wilsonian]

it's just those daft little things.

i heard (dunno if it's true) that when u fly into the falklen's they have two tornados escort you in... is this true? (sorry going off subject).