Oh yes Typhoon, must have made an error.

Hmm, so 1 life justified the waste of all that space and effort? It’s a great addition for the morale, but nothing really more than that. IF there was one in the back, then possibly it could have saved a life, given the sub was upright and the pod got clear, which I doubt in the Kursk’s tilted position. Same counts for these life hatches, everything nice with those, but once the sub has a list, attaching to those hatches becomes very hard. They never quite thought a sub could have a list? I think better systems are possible, although they would possibly have more disadvantages for the combat duty of the ship, something no one would want to sacrifice I suppose.

I’m still wondering how these India subs got to their target, releasing the two small DSRV and how the latter found their way back to the India to dock in that ship?! Anyone have an idea?

edit: Kursk didn’t have one in the back, and I suppose it would be hard to put one in every 5m of space… So the likelyness that the pod is NOT too close to the damage is rather small, in the back, there is hardly any manned space, so basically a pod wouldn’t be necessary there. But then of course you have such things as exploding torpedo rooms in habited areas… Quite a dillema isn’t it?

It’s the Siera II which has two of these chambers in its sail. Akulas only have one. I think it has only limited use, given what happened to Kursk. A sub is rather safe, sinks when something REALLY goes bad (look at USS San Francisco, struck a rock at over 25kts and still got back to the surface), and then you most likely won’t have the time to get into your escape chamber…

Hmmm, looks suspiciously much like the drawings in Pavlov’s book! First drawing doesn’t seem to be right either, too muh space in the bow and too few to the rear of the conning tower (well I’m not sure, but it doesn’t look right!)

I’m pretty interested in Delta III too, some seem to have undergone an upgrade with Pelamida and likely a new coating, any information on that?

Well people at the Chinese forums keep saying 137 is Taizhou, I also thought it was Fuzhou, but apparently no… Maybe a name change? Sinodefense also says Fuzhou for 137. I don’t know, but I do suppose that they had to give at least a name to the helicopter to come to the rescue, I suppose they didn’t say: “It’s the one with the big 138 on the side” And as it was a Dutch helicopter and the Newsletter is made by a Dutch person, I do think he might have heard that name from the Dutch Navy?
So, I’m not sure, could be Taizhou, could be Keito (or Keitou or something like that, he could have made a mistake in that spelling of course).
Keito indeed sounds rather Japanese, on the other hand, I didn’t find any Keito in the Japanese navy, I first thought they might have had 138 with the name Keito in their inventory, but it isn’t there…

Yes it is, but Taizhou is apparently the name of 137. This picture comes from one of the newsletters I subscribe to, in a later letter, two days later, they put the name Keito, together with an article on the helicopter operation.

Hyperwarp, Light Bulb is not the same as Band Stand, the big one is Band Stand, and as Snake already mentioned, the one aft is the Positiv (don’t know what the NATO designation is for that one), the light bulb are the small “ball” shaped things, on the side of the funnel. These are satellite links, while the Bandstand is the Guidance radar for Moskit and Positiv for Kashtan.

You should check the Airbase.ru forum. The Morskoy part is really good, with plenty of excellent pictures! Go to the site, then you find Форумы Авиабазы , then you go down and go for Морской, that’s the place.
Огромное спасибо Maxpain!

That cannot be true Gollevainen, as that container vessel is still to be built and tested, yet already developed and ordered. And indeed some of their ice breakers and tugs are indeed built in Finland. Nonetheless they are doing that very same work themselves nowadays, there is a new icebreaker on the way.
You are talking about normal ice class ships, with no altered construction, only a strengthened bow and structure to break through a not so large ice layer. The one they developed has something like 3-5m thick layers of ice.
Trident, I sought for more info including a search with the name of the vessel and so on, nothing found. I’ll have to ask some special people I suppose.

Sevmorput is built in Kerch, back in the Soviet days as a LASH ship, a barge carrier. She’s 260m long and 32m wide.