we all live in a turquoise submarine...
Nov. 30th, 2012 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twoeleventhe daily mail has some pictures of iran's new toys:
beyond the extremely effective camouflage scheme, i'm rather puzzled as to their point. they're tiny boats. if the guy near the bow is 2m tall, the boat is ~12m long, which makes her smaller than even the earliest u-boats a century ago. i think colombian drug gangs have larger subs these days. and she has so much stuff sticking out -- is that a snorkel or a fixed periscope aft of her conning tower? -- that she'll be plenty loud underwater. forget the turquoise paint, the iranians might as well just hang a "kick me" sign on her stern for all the noise she'll make.
beyond the extremely effective camouflage scheme, i'm rather puzzled as to their point. they're tiny boats. if the guy near the bow is 2m tall, the boat is ~12m long, which makes her smaller than even the earliest u-boats a century ago. i think colombian drug gangs have larger subs these days. and she has so much stuff sticking out -- is that a snorkel or a fixed periscope aft of her conning tower? -- that she'll be plenty loud underwater. forget the turquoise paint, the iranians might as well just hang a "kick me" sign on her stern for all the noise she'll make.