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Old 08-27-2020, 09:34 AM
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Earth-shattering kabooms are cool, but not as cool as your sub stories.
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Thanks. I didn't know that Thiokol made the Snow Cats.
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Thanks. I didn't know that Thiokol made the Snow Cats.

And they had a ski-lift division. Obviously somebody high up in the food chain at Thiokol liked to ski.
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In the late 70’s and early 80’s we “may have or may not have” carried SUBROCs on the USS Flying Fish. We hated carrying them because it required an extra watchman in the torpedo room while in port and also because of the ominous fact that the kill radius of the SUBROC would probably take out the firing sub along with the convoy/battle group it was lobbed at. Having SUBROCs on board also required that we have a tritium monitor on board because the weapon had a tritium vial in it’s warhead to aid the thermonuclear detonation.

The round in the photo indeed looks like the SUBROC—except for the fins on the booster. The booster was 21” diameter. The torpedo tubes could accept nothing larger than 21” diameter so the fins would obviously make it unloadable. Warshot SUBROCs also had no roll pattern.


The tritium, an isotope of hydrogen, is what makes it a 'hydrogen' bomb or 'H-bomb', as the general public tends to call them. It boosts the yield considerably, to say the least. Fusion vs fission (early atomic weapons were fission). A fusion weapon is basically the same process that happens every day in our good ol' neighbor the Sun.

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The tritium monitor device onboard the sub was our friend. H3 was a silent killer if airborne--especially if we were under the polar ice and couldn't come up to ventilate. If the tritium monitor stopped working our backup was to take air samples with Dreager(sp?) tubes and a hand operated sampling device.
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Looks like it used the W55 250kt warhead. It would have been nice for your survivability if the 5-15kt W80 "dial-a-blast" (TM) had been available.

Think I can make some money off the name?
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Thanks. I didn't know that Thiokol made the Snow Cats.


Among other things . . .

If anybody wears a "46 Tall", that jumpsuit is on ebay, right now.


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If anybody wears a "46 Tall", that jumpsuit is on ebay, right now.


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Dang. A 36 Tall would be about right. However, I hear we may get a Taco Bell so it will probably fit in a year or so!
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Dang. A 36 Tall would be about right. However, I hear we may get a Taco Bell so it will probably fit in a year or so!


You could get a seamstress / tailor to "take it in" for you.

Definitely "one of a kind" on the Flying Field !

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PLEASE tell me what #13 is. Is it a rocket motor?
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