WW1 submarines had torpedoes. WW2 submarines had torpedoes. Then we got the atomic bomb, the cold war, ICBM's and somebody got the idea of stuffing ICBM's into submarines, which is how we got the
ginormous missile subs. Missile subs carried their missiles in two long rows aft of the sail, control room and crew quarters. And that's where my knowledge stopped until today when this picture pops up on
daily timewaster. The
USS Oklahoma is a
Los Angeles class attack submarine and it carries a dozen
Tomahawk missiles in its nose. The Oklahoma was launched in 1985 which just goes to show how outdated my knowledge was.
Seems that paper charts are on the way out:
In early 2007, Oklahoma City became the first submarine certified to exclusively use Digital Nautical Charts (DNCs), using the Voyage Management System (VMS). VMS is part of the Electronic Chart Display and Information System-Navy (ECDIS-N) system, which has been under development since 1990. The shift from traditional paper navigation to an all-electronic navigation suite marked the first significant shift in U.S. Navy navigation practices since the introduction of the Global Positioning System (GPS) in the 1990s.
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