Ep 34: Andrew Corbett on Britain’s Nukes
School of War
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The Silence of Submarines
During the Second World War, you could detect submarines relatively easy because they had to suffer pretty much most of the time to charge the batteries. The German Navy developed a thing called the Schnorkel which meant that they could stay under the water and just put out like two masks up. Now again in the West,. as the Soviet Navy as it was then was about 10 or 15 years behind and all of these things, but with spies and stuff, they always seem to catch up. So once they were on batteries and even today, diesel submarine on batteries is really, really quiet. However, battery limits your endurance and you can't go very fast. In the early 1960s, the US
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