Would the Russian Navy send submarines to within the territorial waters of the US?
The territorial limit is 12NM. My experience is over 1500 days submerged, in 3oceans and countless sea… both during and after the height of Soviet Cold War operations….
Are Americans really as uneducated and ignorant as portrayed in the media?
Yes they are. Meet Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense. During the Senate’s confirmation hearing, one of the Senator asked him about ASEAN, and asked him to named…
What would be the minimum population required to repopulate the earth?
This was figured out about 20 years ago as a consideration for space travel. The minimum population of humans needed to maintain genetic diversity and survive a multi-generational…
If the Russians kept beating the US in the early space race, what kept them from reaching the moon first?
The truthful answer? The Soviets lost the race to the Moon long before it ever started. They lost the race all the way back in 1938, when Sergei…
What depth do submarines need for them to not be seen from the sky by airplanes?
This is a great picture of an LA class sub with the shadow of a US Navy P-3 in the foreground. These seas look to be the most…
What do the Japanese think of the Chinese language?
I consider the Chinese language like a distant relative that I’ve never met before. I’m interested and curious to know more about them since we share the same…
When two submarines are under water, can one hear the crew conversations in the other over their passive sonar? If so, what is the furthest they can be from each other and still hear?
Another Hollywood myth is about to be smashed…. We didn’t whisper, or talk in hushed voices, — we did wear sneakers but it was for comfort and we…
What replaces rocket fuel when in space, or does the container just become a vacuum chamber when empty?
Nothing replaces the fuel. That is the wrong question to ask, the tank becomes an empty room. The real problem is not the empty space, but the fuel that…
Are American submarines the best in the world?
A Royal Navy (RN} submarine was paying a goodwill visit to Norfolk naval yard. It was due to arrive at a certain time, let’s say 2 in the…
Has the US ever reached Defcon 1? If so, how and why?
In her 2016 book The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency, Annie Jacobsen describes such an incident. On October 5, 1960 the newly…