Re: report: ISS minor debris strike

Derek Lyons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> Pat Flannery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>Tom Merkle wrote:
>>
>>>The Los Angeles, SSN 688, right here in Pearl Harbor, HI, from nov
>>>2000 till two months ago.
>>>
>>God... this is the day.. when a Los Angeles class attack sub is 
>>described as "old"...hell... man, didn't you ever have an Aurora model 
>>of the Skipjack?
> 
> Pat, the LA is nearly 30 years old, for a submarine that's pretty long
> in the tooth.  The youngest LA isn't even a decade old, that's one of
> the longest submarine production runs we've ever had.

IIRC, that would be the longest production run ever. The Sovs never
built subs of the same design for that long, and the WW1 & 2 runs,
while producing loads of boats, were very compressed in time.

Andre

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