Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Battle Station. Outsiders are not, of course, permitted on the combat patrols. But just before the Ethan Allen departed on its two-month journey, TIME Military Correspondent Louis Kraar did have a rare opportunity to accompany the sub on a week-long shakedown cruise. His report...
...brains of the sub, which must always know its precise location, are banks of digital computers. They are linked to the ship's inertial navigation system (SINS). The three SINS, which check each other, dangle from the stable ceiling platform of the Ethan Allen's navigation center. They contain a secret array of spinning gyroscopes and accelerometers, can measure the most minute variation in the ship's movement due to drift. A computer called NAVDAC (for navigation data assimilation computer) records the position changes detected by SINS...
...Ethan Allen patrols the North Atlantic, this automatic navigation system constantly feeds position readings into the guidance system of all 16 missiles. At every dip and turn of the sub, its missile brains know the ship's location, local vertical, true North, target location and trajectory to be flown. In this underseas base, the countdown is always...
...foot the bill. Cost of the international task force would be about $2 billion for 200 missiles and their floating launch pads; it would take at least three years to build, about half as much in time and money as it would take to create a multinational nuclear Polaris sub marine fleet...
Originally, in fact, the U.S. had hastily suggested that multi-manned, multinational Polaris submarines might be a logical progression from the independent Polaris subs that Britain has agreed to build (but has committed to NATO). Apart from the cost, however, Congress has already indicated that it is dead set against giving U.S. Allies the components or know-how to build the submarines. Moreover, old naval hands are aghast at the prospect of manning submarines with crews of mixed nationalities. Warned a West German naval expert last week: "Sub crews are the fine watches of naval warfare. There...