From: "Robert Comer" 

> A Kilo is a boomer or attack?

Attack and nuclear.  Vary fast.

>What's so special about it for the Gulf?
> Shallow-water operation?  Bottom-flying sonar?  Training wheels? Treads?
> A
> loudspeaker for the Muezzin on the periscopes?

Cheaper maybe is all I can think of.

- Bob Comer


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:41fa7ec4{at}w3.nls.net...
>I wonder whether that pinger nose was softer than the pressure hull.  Or
>are
> we seeing the pressure hull at that first bulkhead (if it is the first
> bulkhead - jeez!).  In a sub, you're standing up, next to some knobby,
> unfriendly things.  They deliberately limit the NYC subway's braking to
> 1/3g,
> because of the standees. Otherwise blood will flow in rush hour emergency
> stops.
>
> A Kilo is a boomer or attack?  Diesel, I presume.  What's the point of a
> diesel sub at this late date.  What's so special about it for the Gulf?
> Shallow-water operation?  Bottom-flying sonar?  Training wheels? Treads?
> A
> loudspeaker for the Muezzin on the periscopes?
>
> Oh, and for background.... What's the difference between a
"missile sub"
> and
> an SSGN?  Some of the Navy pages say a sub was converted from the former
> to
> the latter..
>

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