Submarines use specialized equipment to communicate with shore bases and ships, either directly or through a satellite. Submarines can send and receive both voice and non-voice information. Submariners can send and receive email while in port and under limited conditions while at sea.
Letters and packages are delivered when in port. Sonar SOund NAvigation and Ranging is used to detect ships and submarines, and it includes passive and active types. With active sonar, a pulse of sound is transmitted and bounces off objects in the water. It sounds like the pings you've heard in movies about submarines. The equipment listens for the return of the bounced signal to indicate direction and speed of the object.
However, other ships and submarines can hear these active sonar signals and know where your submarine is. Passive sonar listens for sounds coming from objects, including other ships and submarines.
It doesn't give away your position. Skilled sonar operators can determine many qualities of ships, submarines and marine life from these signals. Navy submarines have two escape trunks, which are like air locks and can be used as escape routes. You would put on a life preserver that has a hood that provides a bubble of air to breathe, and then enter the escape trunk. The lower hatch is shut, the trunk fills with water and comes up to sea pressure.
Then the outside hatch is opened, and you float to the surface. They can attach to the escape trunk of the sunken submarine and take on the crew. Two have been lost. During World War II alone, 52 submarines were lost. That was one in every 5 submarines sunk or lost. Before and after the War, nearly 20 were lost due to accidents. The Navy has two official museums dedicated to submarines and undersea warfare:. There are dozens of other submarines on display at museums.
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And actually I would say the UK's national capability in submarine building was rebuilt on Astute. The hull is made in steel sections which are then fitted with pipes, cables and other equipment.
Everything is tested, then the sections are joined together and the systems are integrated and tested again. The command deck where the captain will spend most time is built separately. It has thousands of pipes and cables and is 20 metres long, ten metres wide, two storeys tall and weighs around tonnes. It is slid into a section of the hull with a clearance of only millimetres which, Godden says, is "an engineering work of art". Once all testing is done the boat is taken on rails to a platform outside the main doors, where it is slowly lowered into the water.
It is moored for more testing, before exiting the dock and entering the ocean. Of the seven boats planned, four are currently in the construction hall, one has yet to be started and the other two are already at sea — one was commissioned in August , the other in March The first boat, Astute , has had a difficult time so far.
It was grounded off the Isle of Skye in October , causing what the Royal Navy described as "minor" damage. The captain was subsequently relieved of his command. In April a drunk crew member, Ryan Donovan, shot his fellow crew members on-board, killing one. He was sentenced to life in prison.
The build quality of the submarines has also prompted negative headlines in several national newspapers. WIRED is told that information regarding whether the sub is achieving its expected top speed is classified. Regarding reports that there have been leaks and corrosion, we are told the problems are fixed and a survey is being carried out to check that those fixes are adequate. Godden says the lessons learned are being applied to the remaining Astute submarines.
And there are no third-party design rules to turn to. Each nation holds its submarine-design rules sacred to themselves. There are no international standards. Opened by Margaret Thatcher in , the hall where the subs are made is huge: metres long, 70 metres wide and 65 metres high. Up in the rafters are six huge gantry cranes. At each side of the hall are several levels of offices, gantries, cabins and stairs. Down in the middle of the hall are piles of equipment, material and the submarines -- boats three, four, five and six, all at different stages of completion.
Boat three officially named Artful is due to enter the water next year and is nearly complete. Its entire surface is covered with around 40, acoustic tiles the exact number is a secret , which feel like rubber and dampen noise. Arrays of hydrophones bulge along its flanks. On top is the tower, which is reinforced in order to surface under ice caps British crews have surfaced near the North Pole to play football, though someone has to stand watch with an SA80 rifle in case a polar bear wanders over.
Inside the boat, workers in white overalls work in the cramped space. Bunks are crammed in, the captain's cabin doesn't have its own toilet and every corridor is a crush of equipment. The design incorporates as little redundant space as possible — Godden refers to it as "packing density". There is little lighting. On the ceilings are oxygen points, to which the crew can attach masks if the atmosphere fails.
There are several parts of the boat Wired is not allowed to see, including the nuclear reactor. This kind of technology provides enormous advantage because conventional submarines are powered by batteries, and to recharge those batteries requires a diesel engine, which needs oxygen.
This means the submarine has to remain at periscope depth from the surface. The battery also limits the range of conventional submarines — a nuclear powered sub has no curbs on its range because it refuels only every 25 years. WIRED is told that the reactor is in a strong steel structure about the size of a large shed.
Inside that structure is Uranium with control rods in it.
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