Although my pop never served on subs, he helped the missle program. Polaris and Posieden. Fire control dude. Did sea trials on some nukies as a civie after he retired.One thing that those guys that attended his retirement gave him his dolphins. How fucking cool was that. He was in tears. My soft spot was for sub guys ever since,nukie or diesel.
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I havenāt hardly done anything with the newer 4 stroke EMD, am more familiar with detroit but from a engineering standpoint iād probably want to deal with a more specific aspect of the particulars. āāin generalāā ā¦ encompasses quite a bit of territory!!
Like anything else, I sailed with good and bad diesel sub engineers. . . . but all were great guys, even if they werenāt the best engineers. . . . .and yeah, would gladly bend an elbow. . .and then two days later bitch about what I found they did when I was home. . . . .
One thing I have noticed, is you can push a lot more tonnage on the water than you can on land with the same size engine.
Yes.
Yeah, there arenāt any hills on the water
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There might not be any hills on water but there are currents. In my youth I spent some time on the upper Mississippi on a towboat. We didnāt go very fast up river.
But that ride downriver was a screamer. No brakes
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Some of the gear boxes cant stand 900 with the 710s i just got off a triple screw full ahead was 850 with the falk boxes
went up and started chewing people the fuck out.