USS Jimmy Carter Mission Success

[Kellhound]

Not much is known about what missions the USS Jimmy Carter (Seawolf Class SSN modified for covert missions), but it appears her latest cruise was a smashing success: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.a19f50dfc5c9

Always good to see her succeed.

[Mihalik]

Uhm...Okay...

You are usually one of the more reasonable posters, but I hardly see how is this relevant or note worthy.

It's not like they torpedoed an ISIS battleship or something.

[Kellhound]

Uhm...Okay...

You are usually one of the more reasonable posters, but I hardly see how is this relevant or note worthy.

It's not like they torpedoed an ISIS battleship or something.

It means she performed a covert mission of great significance, wants the world to know it, and doesnt expect the target to figure out what happened to them. Its about the only way to know about such success.

[PACOX]

They found Half Life 3?

[bladeXcrasher]

I suggest reading Blindman's Bluff, but I can neither confirm nor deny the content of the book. I had the chance to go under the ice on the Jimmy Carter when she transfered from Groton to Bangor to take over from the Parche since the ANAV was my good friend and he needed a competent NavET.

Thankfully I declined, they immediately ended up going on station once they got over in the Pacific.

[Kellhound]

I suggest reading Blindman's Bluff, but I can neither confirm nor deny the content of the book. I had the chance to go under the ice on the Jimmy Carter when she transfered from Groton to Bangor to take over from the Parche since the ANAV was my good friend and he needed a competent NavET.

Thankfully I declined, they immediately ended up going on station once they got over in the Pacific.

I read that book when it first came out actually. I always found bubblehead stories interesting.

[Hammerfest]

... the USS Jimmy Carter (Seawolf Class SSN modified for covert missions)...

All submarines are designed for covert missions.

[Kellhound]

All submarines are designed for covert missions.

No, all submarines are not specifically designed for covert operations. There is a reason the Jimmy Carter is 100 feet longer than her sister Seawolfs, just as the USS Parche before her was similarly modified.

[Hammerfest]

No, all submarines are not specifically designed for covert operations.

Well, if you're talking about the NR-1, the Mystic and the Avalon, then you'd be correct. Otherwise, all submarines are designed for covert operations. Mine was, all the ones in my home port were and even all the boomers and guided missile submarines are designed, inherently, for covert operations. They all do them.

[Merie]

They found Half Life 3?

Alas, only its plot.

[Raptor With a Saber]

Uhm...Okay...

You are usually one of the more reasonable posters, but I hardly see how is this relevant or note worthy.

It's not like they torpedoed an ISIS battleship or something.

They stopped our Lord Cthulhu it is a sad day indeed.

[Zantos]

Lots of speculation on the writers part as to what that flag means. It could mean lots, or nothing. Could mean it had a successful mission, or nothing to do with a mission. So, I would call the title click bait. If anything, we should discuss the possible meanings of the flag being flown since we don't know why its flown and it being flown was a British tradition.

[Nihilist74]

Looks like the sub is old and falling apart.

[Hammerfest]

Looks like the sub is old and falling apart.

It's less than 20 years old and that's how subs just tend to look... although that crack in the sail does raise my eyebrow.

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Lots of speculation on the writers part as to what that flag means.

Agreed. Based on my experience, it's probably a nothingburger.

[Nihilist74]

What class and purpose are most of the subs that are named after presidents?

[Hammerfest]

What class and purpose are most of the subs that are named after presidents?

The Benjamin Franklin class ballistic missile submarines ("boomers") were mostly named after Presidents and other prominent American citizens. They carried Polaris, then Poseidon and finally Trident nuclear missiles. They were replaced by Ohio class submarines.

Edited to add; the Seawolf class submarines had no "theme" to their names... with ships called Seawolf, Jimmy Carter, and Connecticut.

[GreenJesus]

Gratz I guess? I mean.. what is the point of celebrating if we don't even know what they did? Although I guess you could say if we don't know what they did then it was a success.... :P

[bladeXcrasher]

It's less than 20 years old and that's how subs just tend to look... although that crack in the sail does raise my eyebrow.

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Agreed. Based on my experience, it's probably a nothingburger.

It's sound absorbing material, not a crack on the actual sail. But a crack in the sail would be nothing anyway since the area is mostly free flood anyway. Loose, missing, damaged tile is expected as it happens all the time.

[ParanoiD84]

Nice, think i would have enjoyed working in a sub.

[Hammerfest]

It's sound absorbing material, not a crack on the actual sail. But a crack in the sail would be nothing anyway since the area is mostly free flood anyway. Loose, missing, damaged tile is expected as it happens all the time.

First of all, that crack is not in any acoustic tiling, it's in the actual fairing. Second, I wouldn't say it "would be nothing." It would create flow noise as it compromises the hydrodynamic/acoustic properties of the sail.