a reply to: Aliensun

Rethinking Nuclear Submarines

Second part

Across the field of UFOs, we have witnessed fairly small craft, medium-size craft and incredible, gigantic cigar shapes that defy common imagination in size and the method of how they move through the air. In addition, many of us personally have seen massive triangles move over our heads without a sound. While the means by how they operate have been mysterious in the past, from the first sighting of any of those craft we have known that such feats are real and not magic. Principles of physics are being used or avoided to allow those attributes despite our constant clamor of reciting our long-held, self-imposed thought limits on the workings or avoidance of gravity, mass and inertia. Only fools would continue to ignore the obvious and not wonder about just what are our capabilities after all of these years of watching these craft. That is, fools and those in the know.It long has it been observed that UFOs of all manner of shapes and sizes have an affinity for descending into and ascending out of water with apparent ease. Originally, they were thought to be crashing into the sea, but once it became known that they also burst forth from water, then that idea had to change to the more astounding one that they were, shall we say, underseaworthy. Obviously, they have the ability to live in three regimes, water, air and space. These features point up their remarkable utility of being of which we would crave.Who’s to say that a particular type of nuclear submarine doesn’t venture out into the wide ocean, scan the area for other ships and then with “make it so…” orders from the captain, buttons are pushes and the propeller assembly becomes disengaged. Other buttons are pushed to engage the reactor’s turbine to divert power to a field-producing generator that encloses the entire ship in a charged field, creating a local region unaffected by gravity. The ship, in effect, has escaped the normal bonds of gravity, mass and inertia. Encompassed as such, it rises to the surface like a cork and on into the air if unrestrained, like a balloon. More than likely, of course, from its hiding place below the waves it would be instantly thrust upward as an immense, speeding bullet into space. Just exactly as frequently happens when an alien UFO bursts from the sea.It is not important whether submarines are both the sea-going vehicles as we typically know them and at the same time the exact same machines that zip into space. I merely suggest that it is feasible for them to be strongly related designs, seemingly wildly different at first thought, but yet functioning quite similarly in their respective environments. Making submarine-like vehicles that secretly fly it would be an excellent way to build the vehicles in plain sight in standard shipyards before the eyes of everyone, domestic and foreign.The question must arise, however, of whether a sea/space vehicle can be a serviceable war machine in both theaters, water and/or space. The interior mechanics would remain fairly standard except the propeller system would be inactivated in space and maneuvering would be done by a variation of the protective null-mass envelope. The reason and answer for a space capability would very much depend upon the type of armament.The USS Pennsylvania is one of the Ohio class submarines, there are 18 members in that class and they are the largest submarines of the Navy, dwarfing the other classes. The “battleship” of the underwater fleet you could say, and heavily armed. The USS Pennsylvania is twenty years old and has not had its reactor refueled. It is 560 feet long and displaces 16,499 long tons.The main weaponry on most Ohio class subs is 24 Trident II missiles. Those missiles on the Ohio class subs stationed variously around the world’s oceans (we are told) are the second line of defense for responding to an enemy attack and a key deterrent to preventing a first strike on our mainland from an enemy. The missiles can be fired while underwater. Perhaps they would perform even better if launched in the vacuum of space.Given their advantage in space of a “free” altitude above any target and the lack of atmospheric resistance during much of their “climb-out” phase, they would command a far larger targetable area and be more variable in the approach to the target. In effect, their unique launch position would cause their actual range to equal or exceed that of most ICBMs. Resource by resource, sea patrol or space patrol, the extra effort to attain the space position would be golden over the typical. And the last thing you would want to do is to talk about it.The Ohio class subs currently cost approximately 2+ billion each, about equal to the cost of a B-2 bomber and are far more efficient, reliable and durable. Plans are underway to built 12 new Ohio class subs at a cost of about 4.9 billion each by 2029. We have to wonder why the expense projections have more than doubled. Perhaps the “sea” of space is beckoning for longer voyages of these craft made bigger and more complex. Construction is expected to begin in 2021.