“They’re basically all big steel tubes, and if you don't know submarines, they all look alike. “It was an honest mistake,” says Lazzarotti. Virginia-class from a Russian Yankee, or a Seawolf-class submarine from a Delta as easily as he can. Lazzarotti though is more inclined to be forgiving, accepting that not everyone can tell a U.S. Clearly though this is something everyone involved needs to watch out for, and Sutton’s book might come in handy. He mentions some notable errors but requested the guilty parties not be named to save their embarrassment. “It has a distinct silhouette unlike any other.” The Typhoon had one specific job: To Wage a nuclear war against NATO and the US Just before Christmas last year, the Russian Navy celebrated the 40th anniversary of the commissioning of the Dmitriy Donskoy (TK-208), the lead boat in the Project 941 Akula (NATO reporting name Typhoon) class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines designed and built for the Soviet Union in the 1980s. “The Typhoon class is the largest submarine in the world, and probably the most recognizable,” says Sutton. submarine, when they ought to know better. However, Sutton has also seen egregious cases where naval organizations have used pictures of the Typhoon in their literature, mistaking for a U.S. Nuclear-powered Typhoon, Delta III and Oscar class submarines at Severodvinsk. French-submarine-class-LAurore.png 250 × 16. ![]() So, for example, stories about the USS Connecticut, which recently suffered a bedbug infestation may be illustrated with photos of other subs. French-submarine-class-Diane(1933).png 250 × 35 446 bytes. He charitably says this can sometimes be for copyright reasons when subeditors cannot get the right image and reach for a stock ‘submarine’ picture. ![]() Sutton notes that the worst offenders are the media, who frequently match inappropriate pictures to stories. Mistakes in submarine identification are not uncommon, according to HI Sutton, who runs the underwater warfare website Covert Shores and who literally wrote the book on submarine recognition. “Well….we did get that one a few years back,” noted one commenter, adding “I watched the documentary just a few weeks ago.” A Reddit thread on the poster was a mixture of facepalming for the error and knowing comments referencing The Hunt for Red October suggesting the sub really was in U.S. Meanwhile the poster’s online journey made it as far as Russian social network Telegram, giving Russians the opportunity to comment on how envious America was of their submarines. They told Lazzarotti a corrected poster was in the pipeline.
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