COLD WAR NAVY FILM “MAN AND THE FBM” FBM NUCLEAR SUBMARINES AND POLARIS MISSILE 22574
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This Cold War-era propaganda film titled “Man And The FBM” was made by the US Navy Photographic Center in 1960. Narrated by American TV host and personality John Daly, highlights the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarines as well as the UGM-27 Polaris nuclear warhead missiles that were launched from them. In more technical terms, a ballistic missile submarine is a submarine capable of deploying submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) with nuclear warheads. The United States Navy's hull classification symbols for ballistic missile submarines are SSB and SSBN - the SS denotes submarine, the B denotes ballistic missile, and the N denotes that the submarine is nuclear powered. These submarines became a major weapon system in the Cold War because of their nuclear deterrence capability. The film coined the endeavor a “new conquest of inner space - the sea” where the new naval weapon linked the inner space of the sea with outer space. Throughout the 27 minute film, all elements of the new weapons program are discussed from inception to manufacture to testing and from recruitment to training to active duty for the volunteer servicemen. According to the film, which underscored the men that serviced these submarines, the FBM project required “a new kind of Navy man pioneering a new concept of sea power in the age of space.”
Opening credits (0:09). Opening remarks by John Daly (0:34). UGM-27 Polaris missile launches from the sea (0:47). Fleet ballistic missile (FBM) submarine (1:17). Electronic computers in charge of launch (1:51). Underwater navigation devices (2:03). Men who work on the US Navy’s FBM (2:17). Close-up of Submarine Warfare insignia pin (2:50). Training of submariners (2:57). Nuclear training at the Nuclear Power School in New London, Connecticut (3:35). Image of naval nuclear reactor near Arco, Idaho constructed by the Navy and the Atomic Energy Commission (4:04). Submarine exploration voyage in the North Pole (5:09). Books relating to nuclear science and engineering i.e. Radiation Dosimetry by Hine Brownell etc. (6:03). Another FBM training center focused on navigating the FBM submarine (6:44). U.S. Naval abbreviations for underwater navigation (7:02). Servicemen uses periscope at the FBM navigation center to contract stars (7:20). Servicemen board the U.S.S. Compass Island for testing navigation equipment (8:06). Navy’s Guided Missile School of Dam Neck, Virginia (8:42). Animation of UGM-27 Polaris missile launching from submarine (9:11). Key weapons personnel visit production factory in California (9:41). Specialists trained in how to handle and load Polaris (10:30). Test of Polaris rocket motor (11:26). Study of FBM guidance system (11:48). Ultra clean room of assembly line (12:07). Close-up of U.S. Navy Fire Control Technician badge (12:49). Training of fire control technicians (12:51). Model of FBM interior that shows how Polaris is ejected (13:40). Operation Skycatch (14:20). Road sign for Cape Canaveral, Florida - HQ of US Ballistic Missile Programs i.e. Atlas, Thor, and Jupiter Missiles as well as Redstone and Titan rocket families (14:36). Polaris missile launch (15:18). Ship motion simulator (16:01). Test launch of Polaris from USS Observation Island (16:38-17:33). Underwater test launch beneath water off of San Clemente Island, California (17:42). Shipyards on the East and West coasts work on the Navy’s top priority weapons program (18:30). Launch ceremony of freshly minted FBM submarine U.S.S. Patrick Henry (18:51). Naval ceremony marking U.S.S. George Washington’s beginning of active service (20:21). More training and testing (21:27). FBM system deployed on patrol (22:55). Food prepared on board (23:42). Onboard activities to
entertain servicemen (24:01). Servicemen on leave enjoying time with family (24:48-25:52). Women working on Polaris assembly line (25:55). Submarines of the patriotic class: U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ethan Allen (26:25).
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Holy Polaris!!- Robin 1966.
Had to call my husband in!!! Though he trained at the Sub school hidden in the woods at Connecticut. (It's shut down now) But we fell in love with New England and retired here.
Probably you are thinking of the S1C prototype in Windsor Locks. That was actually part of nuke school not sub school.
3:08 "....highly trained in new skills: [typing on a wobbly typewriter]..."
Hope your week has gone well thanks fore sharing you legend 👍 👍
Wow what a Gem in itself. Nuggets
My name is J'rek and no problem my ke
@Jayden k all video the time has not yet come!
I didn't know that Billy Bob Thornton was in the Navy when he was younger!
I like the blinky light computers.
Yuppers me too. Like the Jupiter Twos 'LOST IN SPACE' . BEST SHOW EVER.
those blinky light computers were some of the most power computers of their time.
So Captain, where are we going to train on how to operate this highly sophisticated underwater nuclear powered machine?
Captain: You’re going to one of the most landlocked states in the country to train on submarine use.....IDAHO.
If it wasn’t true I wouldn’t believe it. 🤷♂️
Something up with that Aho
Fleet Ballistic Missile - FBM
The Ultimate Weapon 👍
USS Skipjack
SSN-585
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
Wow. Just wow. Ancient modern technology.
Where are they today? Well it’s all rusted and/or sent to Ukraine, do they have dolphins there.
@@flouisbailey all decommissioned and scrapped
@@NoOne-zo6gj Hope they kept the plans and no one sold them to China.
Even then, the re-entry vehicle wasn’t shown in the film.
I wonder why they say that sub school is in New London, CT when it is actually in Groton, CT?
I've read about some of the old time submariners aboard nuclear armed ones would make beds for sleeping next to the silo tubes... sweet dreams.
Yes these boats had some berthing in the Missile compartment middle level. Most of the berthing was in Operations compartment lower level, maybe 9were in the Torpedo Room and about 12 in Missile Middle.
I served on a Poseidon boat in the mid 70s
Nucleaomics 🌊
So THATS how something gets declassified 😂
Does anyone ever consider how completely terrifying the mere existence of these stealthy contininent destroyers is? (Not these subs specifically, I'm aware they're long retired, but Nuclear Ballistic Missile subs in general.)
I did it for 6 out of 20 years on Submarines in the Navy. The answer is you try to put it out of your mind using "mind over matter" technique- if you don't mind, it don't matter! Seriously, keeping in mind that China, Russia and now North Korea have the same submarines with the same capability to nuke the world, you're just doing your part to try to keep all things equal.
Nucleonics?? :) :)
sounds pretty cool doesn't it
Hey like um Ya negative particles
Who unclassified this😮!
Nothing was classified in the video
What is FBM?
25:45 I was wondering too
Fleet Ballistic Missile
Fleet Ballistic Missile
USS Robert E Lee ??!! What were they thinking, that name would never be used today!
Not sure why it was even back then, with Lee being a traitor to the USA and all...
USS Robert E. Lee SSBN-601 Stricken 30 April 1986 decom '83 only 23 year service
Worse was USS John C Calhoun, and don't forget USS Stonewall Jackson.. These boats were given these names for "PC" reasons at time. We all hate that.
It's pronounced sub-MARINER, not SUBMARINE-er. Yes, I'm a qualified bubblehead.
Um, so wtf does FBM mean? Foul bowel movement?
Fleet Ballistic Missile
Nice dystopian use of science and human resources.
Hell on earth under an iron mask.
Jeez... watch this movie or be onboard the Kursk. Hmmmnn. Let me think. This movie... or a watery death. The movie or watery death... movie or death.
Gimmee a minute, will you? This is a close one.