Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: bxr307@csc.anu.oz Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Typhoon Submarine & Janes All the World's.... Message-ID: <1990Jun27.021201.1835@cbnews.att.com> Date: 27 Jun 90 02:12:01 GMT References: <1990Jun24.233751.24564@cbnews.att.com> <1990Jun26.025038.15540@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University Lines: 33 Approved: military@att.att.com From: bxr307@csc.anu.oz In article <1990Jun26.025038.15540@cbnews.att.com>, trb@cbbca.att.com (Thomas R Balent) writes: : : : From: trb@cbbca.att.com (Thomas R Balent) : In article <1990Jun24.233751.24564@cbnews.att.com> Michael Mayer writes: :> :>"The unique features of 'TYPHOON' are her enormous size and the fact :>that the missile tubes are mounted forward of the fin." : ^^^ :> :>(Quoted from JANE's FIGHTING SHIPS 89-90.) :> : : If this is indeed a quote, then it must be because it is from Jane's ^^^^^^ That should be Janes, there is no apostrophe. It is actually a man's name (Ted Janes if my memory serves me correctly) who started publishing the book at the end of the last century. : (a British publication). Anyhow, the correct terminology is SAIL. On : the old boats it was called the conning tower, but now it is known as : the sail. I would have also thought, not only did the placing of the missile silos forward of the sail make the Typhoon class unique, but also the arrangement of the twin pressure hulls, side-by-side, rather than one-above-the -other which is the norm in Western submarine designs. Brian Ross