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Boomer Programs
Posted by: Werner Frank ()
Date: November 29, 2000 04:29AM

<HTML>C-Span Cable TV presented last night and tonight 8 hours of very interesting video and personel information about modern day submarines and their crews. The 20,000+ ton 560 foot long Trident class \"Wyoming\" US-BOOT (capable of destroying most of the world) has a kitchen, food storage rooms and separate officer and enlisted mens dining rooms that would probably dwarf an old Uboot. They carry 80 tons of food for the 15 officers and 145 men (15 chief petty officers). The Commander\'s stateroom is about 8 square meters. You can view much of this presentation at \"[www.c-span.org]\". Unbelievable! Some of the former Ubooter should see this. The sub has three decks - top, middle and bottom.
Only costs 2-3 billion dollars each including 24 Trident multi-warhead nuke missiles. A US billion is $ 1.000.000.000,00 or a milliarde in German. There were interesting cut-away models shown - the pressure hull looks like a medicine capsule - a tube with the round spherical ends a fairly good distance from bow or stern; the rounded bow filled with sophisticated sonars.</HTML>

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Boomer Programs Werner Frank 11/29/2000 04:29AM
RE: Boomer Programs Werner Frank 11/29/2000 04:45AM
RE: Boomer Programs Steve Cooper 11/29/2000 01:51PM
RE: Boomer Programs Rick Mann 11/29/2000 08:36PM
RE: Boomer Programs Werner Frank 11/29/2000 09:33PM
RE: Boomer Programs Rainer Bruns 11/30/2000 12:54AM
RE: Boomer Programs Werner Frank 12/01/2000 02:22AM
RE: 1 up from a fish tank MPC 11/30/2000 11:53PM


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