Soviet Foxtrot-Class Submarine - Part 1
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- This is the Soviet abandoned submarine on the Chatham Medway. It sits just off Strood kent.
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I am ex RN myself and was shown round a boat of this class. In many ways the Soviets were more advanced than UK and US boats. They were always pushing the envelope and consequently accidents were common.
The glowing instruments and gauges are coated with a radioactive substance that made them glow. The device you thought was a geiger counter is very likely to be a magnetometer so the steel hull of a vessel above or sub bellow could be detected.
Given the external view I would imagine you looked through the navigation periscope. If the attack scope was raised you would know as they are very tall.
Few bits of info. Where you were with the two doors is an escape hatch to be used in an emergency, they have more of a placebo effect as operating depths would have resulted in death due to the pressures involved. Pure helium was inhaled before escape to try and reduce decompression sickness.
They are not called Toilets they are called "head's" and were not pleasant places to be in. What you thought was a radar is the sonascope for displaying the bearing of any noises in the water. Contrary to what you see in the films a submarine sending out a ping was an incredibly rare event as it gives your presence and position away ! All the springs and damping you see are there to reduce noise (the submariners worst enemy).
You observed the MESS and galley further on. When you looked at and remarked about the captains cabin across from him would be a cabin just as important, the political officers cabin and he was in real terms the man in charge of all his comrades.
If you think the cables you found were big you should see the cables that connected to the towed array, a device that enhances listening by the sonar man. There would also be the bathythermograph to map water temperatures and thermal layers.
UK subs are the best in the world and though still small the bunks are very comfortable and you have a locker under them for your personal effects. It can be a very hard job psychologically but your family (the crew) are always there to help. You would always be doing something so you soon got used to it. Modern nuclear powered boats can stay under for years if they like. It is only food that limits your endurance. Night an Day are indicated by coloured lights changing every eight hours so your biological clock would still function though I don't know if the Soviets used the same system. I expect they did.
I would love to see your face if you went round a "Boomer" the boats that carried the nuclear missiles in vertical tubes. They are HUGE. The Navy is fantastic and you make friends for life that would walk over fire for you. The family unit is close and has to be. In my opinion HMS Raleigh where you did your training was five times harder than the actual active service as it had to be. Failure to complete the program is common and the passing out rate is very low, lots will drop out of this tough training and exercises that push you to the limit physically and psychologically, back then I could do 100 chin-ups ! I would be lucky to do one now !
If offered I would go back this very second. I miss the life, the friends and the feeling of doing something that really can make a difference.
Keep up with your great video's (I know this is an old one) I really share your love of military history :-)
Trying to imagining experiencing it in a fully operationial status, the noise the hubub the smells must have been a very different experience.
imagine 2 toilets between 75 blokes, no showers or baths on board only a couple of sinks, it was quite normal for the guys not to wash for weeks or even months, it didn't matter that they stunk of BO and diesel as they all did so no one really noticed, the closest they would get to a bath would be a quick dip in the sea while surfaced if they had the chance and it was warm enough! imagine the toilets if the food upset their stomachs! plus it was actually common for those toilets to break down! lol
Another great video, very interesting.. I turned my 76 year old father on to your channel, he's amazed by all the exploring you guys have done! Thank you again!
I've been waiting for this one, excellent video, I love how you've edited my drone footage to black and white, gives a nice historical touch. I need to get some editing lessons from you! Really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for the link in the description too 👍😊
This is very cool especially the glowing dials.
Riverherb I wonder if radium is making those dials glow.
I can't believe how much original stuff is still there, just amazing.
The man who owns it is a great guy and really into submarines
Keep doing videos like this, I love seeing all of that old mechanical stuff!
Superb quality footage, very well done IKS
Very nice video. Can you imagine the work involved in building those. The plumbing, wiring & piping & asbestos wrapping.
one of your best videos yet, great editing! the glowing gauges were insane, i'm amazed.
I loved the black and white intro, it was very well made and the women has a good voice for documentaries. Keep up the good work IKS crew.
What an amazingly preserved piece of history, really hope that they can find a home for it soon as I'd love to go check it out! Thanks for sharing
u beaat me unfair
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At 15:45 - the trunking you point out is for the underwater escape system. It's not good if you're claustrophobic or terrified of the water. The submarine would be flooded below the bottom of the extended trunking. You would have emergency breathing gear on, and would duck under the flooded trunking, escaping through the external hatch, exhaling all the way up to the surface. There's a huge tower in Portsmouth, which is part of the Royal Navy shore establishment H.M.S. Dolphin, which is where RN Submarine crews practised escapes - the tower is flooded to the top, and Submarine crews enter it at the bottom, and (hopefully) float to the top, 100 or so feet above.
That was great and it brought back memories of my own U-boat service time in the Marine. It is very difficult to transfer the smells , moisture and sounds by some video images :) Thanks for sharing again my friends. Greetings from WW2HistoryHunter
Chits makes ma laugh in theses video with his comments of oh god! Or wow this is cold 😂 or even oh look… I love it! You guys are awesome 😁
Chris not Chits…. 😅
All right...great job guys.. Love narrator. Britt Accent rocks. detailed tour...
I've been looking forward to this video for a long time :)
A slight correction. It could carry either the torpedoes, or the sea mimes, bot both at the same time, as they took up the same magazine space.
Similarly, the nuclear warheads were an optional fit, and would probably be reserved for more capable boats most of the time.
Excellent vid, boys. Look forward to P2.
I went on the submarine when it was moored in Folkestone Harbour as a tourist attraction. Apprently the owner couldn't afford the harbour fees and it was towed away and dumped in the Medway.
20:18 - While your down there Chris... :D - Great video from my old stomping ground.
What a great tour of the submarine so far so much stuff to look at,its massive insidecant wait for part 2 of this one.
Just imagine 70+ people in such cramped spaces, then take into account the various smells of the cooking, the machinery etc. It must have been very uncomfortable!
Did someone fart sir? I smell 💩
Thnaks a lot, so many things to look at ! There is a similar sub that can be visited in Zeebrugge, Belgium, but las time I saw it it was in quite bad condition. In my wet dreams, I acquire one submarine like that and I flood youtube with proper teardown videos of all the stuff inside :-p
A russian volvo....
Make my da... 😂😂😂
Fantastic man! Great job!!! Looking forward to the next episode.
great video ian glad you got access to the sub look forward to the second part
A fascinating tour indeed, but personally I'd be a wreck if confined in such tight accommodations. Even seeing the sub's interior in your video makes me slightly claustrophobic. Thanks! I'm really looking forward to Part 2.
I'm a little bit sad that you skipped over the large gray box at 18:37, the one piece of equipment that looks significantly newer than the rest. My guess is it could be an early satellite navigation receiver, just one line of output for latitude and longitude. Or maybe inertial navigation. The roundish thing at 19:30 could be a gyrocompass. Man I wish I could've been there, would have nerded out over that stuff for hours.
at 6.05 that isnt the radio room its the radar and sonar room, from there they would listen to surface ships and other subs, and could even identify what type of vessel they were listening to by the sound of the screws.
and at 11.02 thats a watertight bulk head hatch, 12.11 those radium dials have radioactive paint on them nice! 15.44 one would be the normal periscope for general viewing the other the attack periscope with which to judge distances etc to calculate the torpedo firing solution. great vid chaps
Great documentary! Now you leave me hanging until next week.
All I can say is WOW! Well not really lol As usual Ian, another AWESOME video! I can't believe all the knobs n gauges in there, must've taken month's if not years to know what they all do! Could only imagine the stress that was put on anyone operating those to make sure they knew EXACTLY what to turn and how much or how little to achieve what the captain ordered! Absolutely mind blowing! Cheers guys
It was first at London by the flood barrier then Folkestone, the sub shop was outside and it was in better nick than it looks now. Sad it’s gone to bits
Awesome explore. Thanks for sharing.
fantastic show guys thanks.
Absolutely fascinating video, I eagerly await part 2.
well presented...very informative...well worth the wait...looking forward to the next episode...keep up the great work chaps
Excellent video folks! Been looking forward to this one!
Absolutely amazing. Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
Very cool Ian. I wonder how the interior of this sub would compare to either a US or British sub of the same era since a lot of the technology used in that sub was pretty rudimentary. Interesting sub and I'm looking forward to your next vid. Thanks for sharing guys. Cheers!
How Friggan thick are you? .So this is abandoned is it?.
If you have a look at Oberon Class British submarine, that is a good comparison as it was built around the same period and operated during the Cold War. I've been on a couple of Australian 'O boats' as they were called, as they had 6 of them. The fit and technology were obviously different in terms of look and feel, the west slightly more comfortable and contemporary looking if thats a way to describe, but not that it really matters, but still very small spaces with a lot of moving parts on both subs. They are almost identical in size and speed, but the Foxtrot had amazing range surfaced. Both had same crew size roughly, but the West typically had far less officers, with the Soviets having twice as many based on the doctrine of control. Don't be fooled either by the 'rudimentary' look of Soviet equipment, that is the style, looks that way but often very effective, pity the Alpha Class submarine was never built in numbers; 43 knots top speed and nearly twice the depth of anything in the West at the time as it was the first to use a Titanium hull.
P boats and O boats simular post war subs. UK ran O boats up to the 90,s As did Canada and Australia. The owner of this is or was trying to restore this boat as museum. See www.nmrn.org.uk/submarine-museum HMS Alliance pre P boats . Virtual tour, better still get down to Gosport to visit. Plus Submarine Museum.
Brilliant video. Fascinating to see the inside of a Soviet sub. Wouldn't fancy spending time on one though! Submariners are definitely a special breed of person! Looking forward to some more!
Amazing all that analog equipment. Cheers!
You guys rock!
Thanks folk :)
IKS you always do fantastic job with your videos keep up the good work!!
Old soviet machines give me goose bumps
Epic video Ian! Can't wait for the next one
Great videos again IKS sir. It must of been very claustrophobic down there when it was in operation.
Awesome video. Looking forward to part 2. Definitely wasn't built for comfort with all the tight spaces. Must have been hectic in an emergency situation with everyone running around madly at the same time.
I love the research you put in and the subject knowledge you have to pass on lol....'is that a thingy'...yes prime example of a thingy 😅 and all the dials glowing because 'they are powered up', or maybe just radium dials painted with luminescent paint to operate tactically in the dark or if power does the opposite and goes out. We will forgive radios and sonar, big boxes with dials and tubes. Aside from that and just taking the piss and having a joke, nice video. I love old soviet technology, might not be pretty but worked and robust. Hats off to submariners working in older diesel subs too, when the engines were running and not on electric, the noise, heat and smell you would never get used to. Nice work.
Love this look at history
I should learn Cyrillic so I can read all that. Absolutely amazing.
Funny thing is , its not that old or long out of service......a US sub from the same erra looks years more advanced.......that room where you thought there was a geiger counter in the corner was the power monitoring room, so they could monitor how much power was being used and replaced into the battery system......that meter was a voltmeter to measure individual batteries or cells in the batteries.......nice video
The comms device in the captain's cabin is not necessarily for broadcasting to the crew. It would definitely be for receiving reports from the officers on watch while the captain's in bed.
The thing in the red metal basket is the escape suit
Я служил срочную военную службу 1981- 1984 г. На Б- 641 Тихоакенский Флот , гидроакустик Р-29-21 182 ОБПЛ .Бичева. Самая красивая лодка , всех времён и народов!!!
Б-641 - что-то знакомое. Не эта ли лодка сейчас стоит в Калининграде, в качестве музея.
The thing at the bottom of the hatch in the coning tower I think was an escape hatch for emergency, they would put on the flotation suits then basically flood the compartment and float out
Shaggy Man I think Ian said it could dive to 280metres I don't think I'd want to try to go half that though 😂😂😂
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The thing by the conning tower latter is called a light hatch. You go by the latter, drop it down to the deck and you can open the conning hatch without “leaking light” at night
mrbubbles53 ah that makes sense thank you 👍
Really enjoyed this one, can't wait for the next one. Oh, I know it's just a little bit late, but those dials and gauges are radioactive ☢️
That Grolsh bottle is probably a collectable, might be worth thousands.
Great Tour Mates!! Thankx for the show always wanted see inside one them ;little suckers ..Man im 6'2 id hit my head 100times in there..As always be safe ya guys crack me up!.. wonder why the like counter dosent register on ya chanel?
Really enjoyed watching
Not really abandoned . Very Slowly being restored. The space with the posters was for batteries
I am suprised at so much wood makes a higher risk for fire. Very nice adventure.
yall should give us some tours of the old british navy ships as well
Awesome video Ian you really get to goto some cool places, pity the sub isn't fully functional would love to take it o a trip..
Great video folks!
28:00 was definitely the ‘is that a ghost’ face
based on the looks on every sections and on every decks of that boat she is at least 75 percent intact. some of those sections are a little bit cramped, but despite of that i think in my own expression she was a nice conventional navy submarine during her prime.
love this video, reminds me of a movie called: Hunt for the Red October. look for more subs, there must be a akula class sub or a one of the bigger nuclear subs lurking around somewhere,, are the owners of that one restoring it to full running state, or just cosmetic state. it would be a shame if they are only doing a cosmetic restore. you could come back for a ride in it, lol
have a look for the film Black Sea starring Jude law, this actual submarine was the one they used for the film.
I believe it's only being restored for cosmetic purposes to open up as a tourist attraction again
Brilliant exclusive fella, I've often wondered about this sub.
nice guys
So Cool. Great Video. Where's the on button. Lol.
Very Cool
This was very cool!👍👍
INCREDIBILE ,complimenti video molto interessante
Awesome.
Amazing video guys! What's Next?
fantastic upload gents. Regards, moodle
Looks like the blokes ate and slept in those small messes ..probably split shifts shared bedspaces...
Jay Spiers I'll take one for the team and share my bed space with a female :)
Jay it's called "Hot bedding " it means as one gets up another goes to bed, my Father passed away in November 2016 he had retired from the Royal Navy after having served 26years + he retired as a Chief Petty Officer ( he had been busted a few times when he was younger but still kept getting back to CPO lol
Combat service: Cuban missile crisis- 1962
India Pakistan war. 1971 war… (Arabian Sea) blockade and attack on Karachi port. Special operations on Eastern front- Bay of Bengal….
I'm guessing that the dials aren't just typical glow in the dark, probably painted with radium, wouldn't be good if they stopped glowing in a power failure
Great vid Ian love your stuff dont stop please
if memory serves me correct jasmina and marina and possibly ornella and sam fox
I've been waiting for this, thank you!
I always admired at The Black Widow for the submarine you out I wanted to go on it but then I just saw your video and I thought wow how is she in good nick GG
cool
Very interesting ! Amazing to think these submarines would have hunted our very own subs and US subs too, very nostalgic and unique, thanks guys ☺ by the way how did you get on this? By a contact or is it an actual museum ?
very interesting.
Brilliant
The rubber boot in the conning tower would lower to the floor so the space inside could be flooded for the diver
What year was that volvo on the wall, I think that would be a good way to date it being an active sub. 1994 at least.
Ian that clock you mentioned you have at home, Do you know which Sub it came off? Just thinking what a coincidence it would be if it was originally from B49!
Lol might have been lol but no sadly not :)
This Submarine was moored in Folkestone Harbour when I first saw it many years ago. 🙄
Arghhh its part of the rush escape system in the conning tower ..the trunking is lowered when the compartment is oartially flooded
Time stamp: 17:55 just put your geiger counter against that :) Nice video though
Здравствуйте и счастливого дня! Сообщаю вам: аргентинская подводная лодка Aras San Juan была потоплена 15.11.2017 в 7:30 утра другой китайской подводной лодкой, которая вела шпионскую работу, и Aras San Juan был проткнут Китайская подводная лодка стреляла по ним торпедами и не могла увернуться. Самая известная и запоминающаяся на сегодняшний день гибель российской подводной лодки типа «Оскар» К-141 «Курск» была потоплена 12.08.2000 другой российской подводной лодкой, поскольку они хотели покинуть свой экипаж и попросить политического убежища и, конечно же, российскую подводную лодку. Спустя некоторое время K-141 KURS была снята с мели, но у нее не было счастливого конца, как у подводной лодки в фильме «Охота за Красный Октябрь», снятом и снятым в Голливуде с актерами Томасом Шоном Коннери и Александром Рэй «Алек» Болдуином III. Американские атомные подводные лодки, и все они загружены несколькими ракетами с ядерными боеголовками или боеголовками каждая из них, а именно: 1) USS Thresher «SSN-593» и загружены ракетами с ядерными боеголовками и 10 апреля, 1963 г. была разбита или потоплена. 2) Подводная лодка USS Scorpion "SSN589" затонула 21 мая 1968 г. Другие подводные лодки Советского Союза с ядерной силовой установкой и снаряженные ракетами с боеголовками или ядерными боеголовками, кроме К-141 Курс ранее прокомментировал следующее: 1) Подводная лодка К-27 проекта 645, затоплена в 1979 году, 2) Подводная лодка К-8 класса «Ноябрь» была потоплена 12 апреля 1970 года и представляет наибольшую радиоактивную угрозу в мире, 3) Подводная лодка К- 129 с дизель-электрической силовой установкой, но с ядерным оружием, затонувшая 8 марта 1968 г., 4) подводная лодка К-278 «Комсомолец», затоплена 7 апреля 1989 г., 5) подводная лодка класса «ноябрь» К-159 и затоплена 30 августа 2003 г. Авиационные происшествия с ядерным оружием, и лишь некоторые из них: 1) В 1958 году бомбардировщик B-47 столкнулся с самолетом F-86 в районе острова Тайбс, штат Джорджия, США, бомба с ядерным зарядом весила 3000 кг и никогда 2) В 1968 г. разбился бомбардировщик ВВС США B-52 с 4 ядерными бомбами на борту взрывчатка взорвалась; Ядерные компоненты были отключены экипажем, и только 3 из них были восстановлены. И самые запоминающиеся; 3) Произошло 08.03.2014 из-за предполагаемой ошибки попадания иранской ракеты, "как сказал бы парень из мексиканской комической программы 8-го числа * Это было случайно *", что он взорвал рейс 370 MH370 / MAS370 авиакомпании MALAYSIA Airlines что на нем не было груза с ядерными бомбами, но он был полон пассажиров с чистыми международными учеными, которые собирались выступить с конференцией и рассказать новости о вакцине и лекарстве от некоторых видов рака и СПИДа », как я подтверждаю или признаюсь 16.06.2020 Дональд Джон Трамп, президент США », и они также собирались предупредить о возможной пандемии, такой как covid-19. Трансатлантическое судно RMS Titanic затонуло не в результате столкновения с айсбергом, а в результате торпеды, выпущенной немецкой подводной лодкой, ведущей шпионаж. Сегодня в мире в 21 веке насчитывается более 130 потерянных или потерянных бомб, ракет с ядерными или атомными боеголовками, и эта потеря связана с потоплением или уничтожением кораблей, самолетов или подводных лодок по всему миру. В этом мире вещи или события происходят НЕ случайно, а по истинной причине и следствию, которые никогда не скажут нам своей правды, и если они всегда будут ее искажать. И вся моя научно-техническая информация является надежной или проверяемой в Интернете с помощью Google или CZcams. И как говорится в моей поговорке или фразе: «Между небом, землей и дном океана НЕ прячутся инопланетяне, так как использование Интернета стало общественным достоянием».
its fluorescent paint on the dials not batteries or rechargers.its phosphorous paint like on clock dials
Brilliant videos lads but just imagine Ian going to A&E with a gash to his head. How did you get that sir ? Oh I was crawling around a Soviet sub .😆
This is soo cool Ian with the history of the U-Boat. Brilliant to see inside one from a persons prospective. How long did it take you to get premission for this explore?. The intro was brilliant. How many times do you see people that are exploring the same place as you?
Not very often folk :) thanks for your support :)
IKS Exploration anytime.
Fantastic filming
I wonder how it travelled from Russia.
Own power?
Than sport?
Good job boys.
Brilliant video, I always wanted to go on this submarine when it was in my home town of folkestone but i was to Young, did the owner mention why it's not an attraction any more ? you
At present it’s being repaired and awaiting investors to help :) one day it may be opened again to the public:)
Very cool! Would love to see inside of a original german uboat :/