Inside the submarine’s control room, the noise could reach levels of 100 decibels, almost as loud as a bustling nightclub. A decisive blow to the project came in September 1980 when an incident ...
Seeing how far down I was in the submarine was striking. I couldn't imagine what it must have been like to serve on a two-month-long patrol with no fresh air or sunlight. The control room and ...
The conversion also resulted in these vessels trading their SLBM control related facilities for the Common Submarine Radio Room (CSRR) and two High-Data-Rate antennas. That greatly expanded the ...
The submarine had served for more than 40 years ... which housed the main control room as well as an electronic equipment compartment above the main hulls and behind the missile launch tubes.