USS DALLAS - Ship Of The Week #12 2/17/2015

[Admiral2]

UNITED STATES SHIP DALLAS​

According to officials of the United States Government and the former Soviet Union, nothing of what you are about to read ever happened.


in 1984, The Soviet Navy launched the ballistic missile submarine Red October, a Typhoon-class sub modified to operate a magneto-hydrodynamic propulsion system, called a “Caterpillar Drive.” Radical for its time, the Caterpillar Drive would allow the Red October to evade all Sonar systems then in use by NATO’s forces.


On the day she launched, the USS Dallas (SSN-700) was on patrol in the Barents Sea and caught the Red October coming out of Polyarny Inlet. The Dallas tracked the missile boat until the Caterpillar was activated, throwing Dallas’s sonar operators off track. Soon, however, the crew discovered what to listen for and reacquired the target at the southern end of the Reykjanes Ridge.


Over the next several days, the Dallas stayed with Red October, at one point almost sinking her before confirming her captain’s intention to defect to the United States. She then escorted the missile sub to the New England coast, thwarting a KGB saboteur and fending off a torpedo attack along the way.


Here’s what’s confirmed: The USS Dallas is a Los Angeles-class attack submarine, powered by a single pressurized water reactor and driven by a single propeller at a maximum submerged speed of 33+ knots. (The actual upper limit is classified.) She has a bow-mounted spherical sonar array and a towed sonar array aft. She mounts four torpedo tubes capable of firing Mk 48 ADCAP (Advanced Capability) wire-guided torpedos, UGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles, decoys and mines, as well as twelve vertical launchers for versions of the Tomahawk cruise missile. Dallas is 362 feet long, with a beam of 33 feet and a draft of 31 feet and has a submerged displacement of almost 7000 tons. Her complement is 129 officers and men.

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THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER​

The Hunt For Red October is the action thriller directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard) and based on the best-selling first novel by Tom Clancy. It tells the story of a Soviet submarine captain, Marko Ramius (Sean Connery), who intends to defect to the United States and deliver the Red October as a prize. His intentions are unclear at first, but ultimately discerned by CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin), setting off a race between the US and USSR to intercept the missile sub. The Dallas is one several real-life US Navy ships depicted in the book and film.

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“This thing could park a couple of hundred warheads off Washington or New York and no one would know anything about it till it was all over.”​

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[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLwQTJHwcoQ[/yt]​

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

C'mon, Big D, FLY..!



Mark

 

[CorporalClegg]

Just remember kids, it was Paganini.

 

[Admiral2]

Just remember kids, it was Paganini.

And no more than your usual nonsense. Two stories, two glasses of water...

 

[Amaris]

The Hunt for Red October is still my favorite Clancy novel. Not only did I buy the book, but I watched the movie, and bought the video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

One of the big selling points for me was that beautiful submarine.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Lined up to see the movie at the old Eglington Theater (a big old grand 1940-style place with THX instilled and a big screen) in Toronto during its premiere week.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I will have a pickup truck. Or possibly even...a recreational vehicle!

And drive from state to state. (Do they let you do that?)

 

[Corran Horn]

Way to go Dallas!

 

[Admiral2]

See, I keep trying to tell people this is the best movie ever but nobody wants to believe me...

 

[Corran Horn]

See, I keep trying to tell people this is the best movie ever but nobody wants to believe me...

The torpedo didn't self-destruct.

You heard it hit the hull.

And I...was never here.

 

[Admiral2]

See, I keep trying to tell people this is the best movie ever but nobody wants to believe me...

The torpedo didn't self-destruct.

You heard it hit the hull.

And I...was never here.

Contact Dallas. Give them the go.

 

[sojourner]

I should have written a memo.


Best movie ever? Maybe not. Best adaptation of a novel? Maybe so.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Hey, I think somebody just shot a torpedo at us!

 

[urbandefault]

Funny, I was just thinking about the Dallas yesterday before this was posted.

That damn movie is why I still picture Jack Ryan with Alec Baldwin's face and voice in the books, even though I liked Harrison Ford better.

 

[Saga]

I would like to have seen Montana...

 

[CorporalClegg]

It's by no means the best movie ever. It's definitely my favorite move ever and probably one of the best 30 movies of the last 30 years.

 

[Admiral2]

I reject all the naysayers' realities and substitute my own!


[whisper]Best Movie Ever![/whisper]

 

[SPCTRE]

I'd hit it.

Thumbs up!

 

[Corran Horn]

Skip! They've got you playing with toys now?

 

[Admiral2]

Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan, and senior captains don't start something like this without having thought the matter through.