Scott Crossfield and Mary Anne Thompson (Air Force Association Education Fund). This photo was taken Monday afternoon at the Prattville, AL, airport just after he’d landed. He had come down to Maxwell AFB to speak to the new 2nd Lts. on Tuesday. He took off Wednesday morning to go home.
I was suprised at Yeagers response on hearing about Crossfields death.He said he wasn’t suprised as Crossfield was the kind of pilot that took risks. Asked what sort of risks, he said flying in weather that he (Yeager) wouldn’t have gone up in.
Whatever, he certainly had the right stuff and died what he loved doing.
Can you provide a link to Yeagers response?
As I have said before, I would like to see a class of six 25,000t+ carriers…
I believe this 6 carrier class would be a far better long term solution to the UKs needs.
I agree. A half a dozen carriers similar to the proposed SAC-220 would’ve been the way to go.
This is all I could find. Don’t know how reliable the source is:
Yasen is the NATO designation of it, Project 885 the Russian one, and Severeodvinsk the name of the one being built (AKA K329)
Displacement, tons: 5,900 surfaced; 8,600 dived
Dimensions, meters: (111x12x8.4)
Main machinery: Nuclear; 1 PWR; 195 MW; 2 GT3A turbines; 43,000 hp; 1 shaft; pump-jet propulsor; 2 spinners
Speed, knots: 28 dived, 17 surfaced
Complement: 80 (30 officers)
Missiles: Novator Alfa SS-N-27 (note: other sources say Yakhont SS-N-26). 8 VLS launchers in after casing. Total of 24 missiles.
A/S: SS-N-15. Fired from torpedo tubes.
Torpedoes: 8 533mm tubes. Inclined outwards. Total of about 30 weapons.
Countermeasures: ESM: Radar warning
Radars: Surface search, i-band
Sonars: Irtysh Amfora system includes bow-mounted spherical array; passive/attack search and attack; low frequency. Flank and towed arrays; passive; very low frequency.
Programmes: Malakhit design. Confirmed building in 1993. Reported plans were for seven of the class to replace the Victor III class. It was initially thought that these were multipurpose SSNs derived from the Akula II class, but the length of the program suggests there has been considerable scope for technical upgrade.
Structure: Some of the given details are speculative. VLS launchers for SSMs, canted torpedo tubes, and spherical bow sonars are all new to Russian designs.
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