Submarines Are WAY Scarier Than You Think...Here's Why

and not nuclear energy to destroy the human race several times over. I need to show you a video that is driving me crazy. You've got the ocean sitting t

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, nice and calm, and then this thing comes out, boom, it doesn't just come out, it explodes. For a second it looks like it's about to fall again and then this is a rocket, yes, a full-blown rocket heading into space. Oh and I know this looks small, it's not small and w

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is this rocket launched? Are there underwater bases? Yes, they are called

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. Once it reaches the surface, it flies a thousand kilometers above the Earth, literally into space, begins looking to the stars to navigate, and eventually falls back to Earth, traveling up to about 12,000 kilometers. achieve any goal the people who launched it wanted you to like what we have created with a power so destructive it threatens the world a game of deadly stone an undeniable strategic deterrent nuclear warheads that can wipe out countries

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are cool I just have to say it, There are these huge floating nuclear weapons that could be anywhere at any time and that we use for psychological warfare and real warfare and to spy on people, and because of this, these giant ships are actually incredibly stealthy, as if Someday you could be swimming in the ocean minding your own business. and right below you could literally be this huge 48,000 ton metal machine with a couple hundred humans on board equipped with nuclear warheads that could be launched at any moment and you would have no idea because not being seen is all their Mo, which is crazy because these are some big guys like the Russian typhoon class submarine, if you just take it out of the water and put it on land somewhere, you start to get a scale of how massive this thing is, like a floating building, Yes, these guys are thick and they are sailing around our oceans 250 meters below the surface.

Oh, and something we'll talk about later. They literally have nuclear power plants on board that give them basically unlimited energy to produce fresh water and oxygen, which means they could be down here. in the depths of the ocean for decades, that is if there were no humans on board who needed to come up to eat food. Navies around the world that have submarines do everything in their power to ensure that these submarines are silent and invisible, even resistant to magnets. in the name of being undetectable and they are always out there at this very moment there are tons of these things there are humans in these multi-story buildings that are floating around our oceans with giant weapons in them this is not normal how did we get here?

Why were these things invented? There is a lot to understand about submarines. There are many angles that we have been investigating for months and today we will show you how we got here. What submarines can do, and most importantly, why a submarine has enough nuclear weapons to essentially wipe out life on the planet, as we know, is just one submarine, an increase in underwater activity. The Russians rearm their fleet. Chinese submarines. Iranian submarines will preserve peace for many years. Today's topic is very juicy and there's a lot to get through, um, Nick, our studio manager is building something for today's topic.

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Better help by supporting this video. Let's go see Nick, he's building something super cool, okay Nick, Nick, what are you doing? Oh yeah, he's joining, look at this model, oh my gosh, that's him. ssbn Andrew Jackson Lafayette class, as you can see, all the pieces are everywhere and these are the people, look at the people, oh my God, if you look here in front, these are the bunks, these are the torpedoes, it's okay, we'll get back to Nick. In a moment, while that model is being built, let me tell you how we got here. Foreigners have been building boats to try to go underwater for a long time.

Look at this ancient art where you can see Alexander the Great completely immersing himself in a large glass barrel, this is like 2000 years ago. 1800 years later, you have Leonardo da Vinci, who was literally busy

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ing of anything he could invent and sketched his own version of an underwater ship. This beauty here was basically like a large mechanical machine. fish, oh and this is wild, he kept these sketches a secret because he was afraid to cite the evil nature of men who practice murder at the bottom of the sea as if he thought we could use these underwater ships for war, anyway, the first known ship to actually sail underwater was, of course, built by a Dutchman, a Dutchman, they are so good in the water 150 years later, here in what would soon be the United States, George Washington paid to have this made fool for your army, I mean, there could be a whole video about this ship, the turtle, because it looked like two turtle shells put together, so cute, the guy there is so welcoming that they tried to use the turtle in their War for Freedom against the British, but they never did. something useful and then it just sunk.

I mean cool name, but it wasn't a super useless submarine, but it paved the way. 50 years later, we have the American Civil War, where the Confederate rebels built a submarine that was manually powered by a bunch of guys. turning a crank and on board it had a long Spar torpedo, don't be fooled, although the Spar torpedo was just a fancy way of saying a bomb on a 15 foot pole and they actually used it, they got on a Yankee ship under it with his bomb in the middle of the Civil War and he blew it up and both sides sank like the submarine sank too like it didn't work, I mean it worked but it didn't really work anyway.

I had to mention all of these as The First Submarines because they laid the foundation, but in the 19th century things got really serious thanks to this guy here in Germany. Rudolph Diesel invented an engine that changed everything. This new engine mixed pressure, air, and fossil fuels that exploded and made things move. This changed a lot of industries, but the Germans said, "Let's put them in submarines and run them to charge a bunch of batteries that we can use to power the submarine while we're underwater. It's a lot better than hand-cranking, and indeed it was." but there was a big problem and that is that this engine needs air, since it needs to be able to pump the exhaust it produces and it needs to be able to suck in air to generate energy, so the engines cannot be run. underwater, so these German submarines, as stealthy as they were, were still very limited because they could only hold standard water for a maximum of 48 hours before having to come up and reveal their position in order to get air for their engines.

This is a problem that will soon be solved, but we only need a few wars, the first 1900s, we have all these great empires that are looking for ways to destroy themselves with their new industrial technology and they are getting good at submarines, they are loading them with more and more batteries. now they have sonar and radar capabilities so they like to see underwater and they have radios and encryption devices so they can talk to each other while underwater which is all when you're fighting a war the germans call these submarines submarines under the sea. ships or submarines and use them for their new unrestricted submarine warfare plan, which is a sterile way of simply saying that we're comfortable sneaking up on civilian ships, sinking them, and killing people without warning because we've decided we're being literal.

The underwater villains point and shoot, they are deadly farmers, so yes, they are used with horrible means, but let's be clear, this is an amazing technology, as it is light years from the ancestors of submarines like the turtle or that poorly thought-out bomb on a Civil War stick, but they still have the air limitation they need to go up all the time to get air for their engines, no matter how scary and stealthy they can be, and to sneak under the water during these wars have yet to come to the surface. every 48 hours to run its engines and recharge its batteries, revealing its stealth position and becoming much less effective as a tool of war.

This would be like playing Battleship, but every few turns you have to flip your board to show your opponent where you are. In a second, they realized this a little bit when they started using these two little tubes that allowed them to still be underwater, but put the tubes up and suck air in from the surface, blow out the exhaust, but it's like Garbage like Having to run their noisy engines every 48 hours was a major limitation on how useful these submarines could be. Well, of course, the war ends. Germany loses and surrenders, and some of these submarines that were there were divided among the winners. the US, the UK and the USSR, who discovered that, wow, the Germans have some amazing submarine technology, let's use this technology to improve our own submarines, skipping decades of development and this is where things get juicy and terrifying, so now you have these two former allies.

The United States and the Soviet Union looked at each other skeptically, they both have this German technology in their hands and they both know that the other has this German technology in their hands and they both secretly say that we need to be much better than the other in Come on, this was a big priority, but it was also strange and quiet. Cold War, this begins an era of secret investment in submarine technology and this is where they level up to blow us all away, where submarines become the incredibly advanced machines we know. Today what changed everything here was that humans had learned to play with atoms, splitting them apart to produce incredible amounts of energy and they used that energy to blow things up, but also to produce electricity and, more importantly, nuclear energy.

It didn't require air, so this is the 1950s and you've got this guy, a Russian-born U.S. Navy man named Hyman Rickover, and he said, wait a second, you're telling me that you can produce electricity but you don't need it to be. Shine air bulbs in this guy's head because he's a submarine guy and he says, let's put these puppies in submarines that would solve all our need to surface every two hours. US government problem, wait, sorry, what did you say? nuclear power plant inside the submarine we have to get ahead of the Soviets, he received a lot of criticism for this for obvious reasons, but he worked his way past all the bosses until he got to the head of Navy operations and whispered in his ear. its a great idea and it totally worked the story of how this happened is crazy and rickover was crazy and Visionary and I'll leave some reading on the sources for those who want to go down that rabbit hole throwing a lot of discipline in here like I'm going over the history of this guy, but yeah, it's the '50s and the US government set out to put a full-fledged nuclear reactor, a power plant inside their giant floating weapon, and they did it somehow and it changed everything.

The arrival of nuclear energy has broken those bonds that can go around the world with a core ofuranium slightly larger than a golf ball. It may have as profound an effect on naval strategy as the aircraft has had on warfare. Let's see how Nick does with his model. Oh, here we go. Look at this big boy here, she's, wow, I'm going to put this model on my desk and I'm going to look at it every day because it's beautiful and it's like retro, which is cool anyway, uh, let's get back to the story here because the next chapter.

This is really the chapter that matters the most once they put the nuclear reactor in these submarines, everything changed. I'm going to show you why, so look at this big old submarine, it's a 1960s Sturgeon class submarine, a US Navy submarine, and look back. here we have the nuclear reactor that is sitting here doing its thing breaking down atoms which produces an enormous amount of heat that can heat the water that spins this huge propeller and remember that spinning things you fuel the rise of electricity, you are spinning turbines and now you have electricity for your submarine, not only does the nuclear reactor not need air to operate, it literally creates air;

After all, you're surrounded by H2O, so all you need to do is break the two hours. from the O and boom, you have oxygen for your crew to breathe. I mean, this nuclear reactor was a magical move above the trees, we have submarines and they use all this abundant energy to get rid of the salt in the water, so now the crew has drinking water and can shower while floating hundreds of feet under the ocean this is really getting crazy the nuclear reactor solved all the problems remember how diesel submarines had to refuel all the time to be able to rise to the surface run their engines get rid of their exhaust gases and suck in the air nuclear submarines now They could run underwater without needing to refuel for 20 years, oh that's if you don't count having to refuel the humans on board, so rickover was right nuclear reactors in submarines changed everything, they are much more useful now, now you can sneak across the ocean and never give away your position okay now that we can stay underwater basically forever let's load these suckers with big guns these suckers are getting huge in the 70's and 80's i mean , here was the German submarine, remember the one I really liked, it pushed everything forward and here is an American submarine from the Cold War era, the Ohio class, this thing is huge like it's coming up here, those are people , here is your kitchen.

Here's the reactor back here doing all its magic and look, this is where the crew sleeps. Oh, and what are they sleeping next to? What are all these tubes doing here? Oh, these tubes are right where the crew sleeps. Yes, these tubes are what make the submarine perhaps the most important weapon that has ever existed. This is where the nuclear weapons are. Technically we don't know if this is where the nukes are and any Submariner will vehemently tell you that quote. We cannot confirm or deny whether the missiles are inside or not. of these silos carry nuclear weapons, wink, wink, this is where the nuclear weapons are, so what started as two superpowers taking an interest in German submarine technology in the 1940s turned into an arms race that resulted in both They discovered how to power their submarines with nuclear reactors. and the ability to load these submarines with 24 rockets that they could launch to the edge of space at any time carrying multiple nuclear warheads, like having nuclear weapons on the ground ready to fire, it's cool to have them on airplanes it's pretty powerful, but you can see. both when you have a submarine that silently travels the world's oceans with the ability to transport a lot of nuclear weapons and launch them at any point, you have just achieved the most powerful advantage in military strategy, surprise the panopticon that your enemy has.

I have no idea where you are, but they know you're somewhere within range at all times, so they have to act like you're everywhere just a button press away from launching one of these things, but this kind of game mental psychological only works if you are I never noticed, so the next phase of this technological evolution of submarines focuses on silence. They start encoding their submarines with rubber tiles so the Sonar doesn't bounce around too. They took these giant propellers that are huge, bigger than you can imagine, and they made them. they were incredibly quiet and even inside they started taking crazy precautions, like all the heavy equipment on a submarine is mounted on rubber pads to dampen any vibration that might be detected or heard.

The cooks even started putting rubber on everything as if they were mixing bowls. and they are mixing spatulas that are like soundproofing materials so that they do not emit vibrations or make noise. The submarine force takes silence seriously, in fact they proudly call themselves the silent service and it's kind of a chip on their shoulder because they don't get as much recognition as these guys, they're just lurking in the depths of the ocean doing something like a really important defense and no one knows about them because literally that's their job is never notice wow so you have the US and the Soviet Union with the ability to launch nuclear weapons from their submarines and ironically This whole thing about everyone pointing a gun at each other is actually preventing these great powers from ever fighting a war against each other, they were both too afraid of how easy it would be for the other to counterattack with their stealthy submarines ensuring the destruction of both. sides.

This is deterrence and is one of the main forces that prevent great powers from going to war with each other. That's why the United States has an entire fleet of submarines with no other mission than to go into the ocean and just disappear and just sit there silently ready to make good on their threat that if they attack us we will always be ready to respond. Submarines are also very good at spying, okay? We now know that much of the communication in this world is possible thanks to underwater cables, it is not just the Internet, these cables have been around for a long time and they are there at the bottom of the ocean connecting the entire world. and they are safe because no one has access to them, no one is going to the bottom of the ocean, oh wait, submarines have exclusive access to these cables, so it's the early 1970s and American intelligence agencies are partnering with The Navy to have They scoured the ocean floor looking for Russian communication cables with the idea of ​​being able to access the cables and listen to them and lo and behold, they found one 120 meters below the surface in this eastern part of Russia, they found a cable that connected two Soviet Naval Bases and they literally put a tape recorder on the cable and now they are literally listening to the Soviets talking to each other about all kinds of military things, none of it is encrypted in any way because no one expected them to dive in and find this cable, oh and they were very clever, they only loosely attached it to the cable in case they wanted to pull the cable for maintenance or something, the little device would fall out and no one would know they were being spied on. but the tapes they were recording filled up so the divers had to go down and retrieve the recording device and take out the tapes and put in new tapes and they did it every month and they said they'll never catch us for this but then they finally did it , it turns out that an NSA employee was paid 35,000 by the Soviets to tell them about this operation, anyway that would be an awesome movie, someone please make that spy movie, the fact is that submarines still spy a lot, they will. they often have Navy Seals on board who are ready to dive and dot dot dot redacted we have no idea like we literally have no idea what they do for obvious reasons there is evidence that the US and UK spy agencies they still leverage cables like underwater fiber optic cables that rule the Internet and they do this all the time see the big Edward Snowden leak and a deep dive into that.

I'm not going to go into that, but we know that submarines spy, we know that countries are always spying. each other, this shouldn't surprise us, in fact, during the research for this video I felt the insatiable desire to dive down the rabbit hole of how submarines spy and I didn't because I'm trying to stay disciplined and I'm trying to tell this story , but leave a comment if you want me to do that video and I will consider it because there is a lot more on that topic, let's move on, okay, let's catch up on where we are today with submarines according to the US Navy website The United States has 71 submarines, 53 of them are fast attack submarines and 14 are ballistic missile submarines that are there and are our deterrent and four are guided missile submarines, but then there are other sources that say there are only . 68 submarines.

I don't know everything. This is sort of classified and we're not supposed to know it and no one's supposed to know it, but we know a lot but not details and as I mentioned all of these Subs have very different capabilities, the quick attack Subs for example are optimized for attacks closest. They use a lot of cruise missiles that are launched through these big tubes and they have jet engines and computer brains for navigation. They are much more precise but can still go quite far. I mean, we're talking 2,400 kilometers away at 800 kilometers per hour. as if they were still very, very effective weapons in the long term.

Russia says it launched 26 manned missiles today. 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles have hit a Syrian air base and launched dozens of missiles aimed at the Syrian regimes, but again the one I like represents the mind-boggling reality. What we humans have invented is this fool, the Ohio class submarine, they have torpedoes and various other types of smaller scale weapons, but it is these tubes that carry missiles and warheads that are the big game-changer for this technology, so let me Just look at the range of these rockets, they can hit targets that are over 4,000 miles away, it's wider than the entire United States and probably much longer, but of course the Navy won't tell us these things because it's all classified and not only do they carry one nuclear warhead, they can carry multiple and they don't all go to one place, they are actually dropped in different places.

An incredible amount of scientific ingenuity, let me explain, begins in the boost phase, where the missile gets its initial momentum, is pushed out of the water and into the air, goes up into the sky, gets a ton of momentum, and then the engine shuts down and the missile it just has momentum and starts flying just using the laws of physics that it is literally on the edge of space, we are now in the halfway phase, the missile just starts casually looking at the stars to gauge its position and then it makes small micro adjustments to make sure it is perfectly on course for its target and this is where we have to talk about warheads, no, no, no, those little cones that are not so small are warheads, the most powerful weapons that humans have ever ever created.

These missiles can have up to 12 of these cone shaped warheads which are simply hung on the front tip of this rocket finally this missile reaches its highest point and starts descending in this phase the missile starts spitting out the warheads at just the right time, at the right speed, and when they re-enter the Earth's atmosphere, they begin hurtling toward their targets at a distance of up to 1,500 kilometers, roughly the distance between Iceland and Norway, and then, when they reach where they were programmed to go, I mean, you know what happens, oh, but that happens potentially 12 times with this rocket, each one of these explosions. approximately six times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II.

Well, that was a missile. This submarine can contain 24 missiles like the ones we have created. Fortunately, since World War II no one has had to use nuclear weapons at any time. In conflicts, we've had a lot of threats lately, but fortunately they remain a deterrent force and not something real we use. Hopefully it continues like this and yes, several countries have the ability to load these things on their floating weapons called submarines that are lurking in the depths of the ocean at all times spying and just sitting there, okay, so those are submarines, well, no, that's like a teaspoon of subs, this topic could go on forever.

I mean, seriously, it was a painful story because there was so much. I had to leave it on the table. I have a feeling I'll be making some more videos about submarines soon, but let's remember what we've learned here, we humans have invented something pretty wild, something that should be impossible. Because many of us live underwater in these floating buildings for months at a time, we carry thesethings with enough firepower to turn entire countries into dust, all in the name of never having to use them, that's the paradox of modern conflict, and yet what I take away from spending a lot of time thinking about submarines is that humans can do anything they set their mind to to generate energy from nuclear fission and put it into an underwater weapon, such as firing rockets into space. look at the stars and then land wherever they want humans did this we did it out of fear, skepticism and conflict we did this to get ahead and become more powerful but we did this and that in some strange way it gives me hope that one day when the best minds will not are directed at the priorities of power and conflict, we humans will continue to make magic happen magic that helps more and more people live better lives by making impossible things possible thanks for watching my video about submarines what you are not watching Right now There are all the accessories that we have that were kind of blurry in the background, but they are cool, look at this model of the USS West Virginia, you can see the little silos up here for the nuclear weapons, all these guys.

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