So I'm about 30 minutes or so into it. Lots of action and I'm glued to the TV. Sounds great on my home theater system. I've waited months for the movie to launch, which was yesterday on AppleTV. I highly recommend it! Awesome WW2 movie!
Anyone watch 'Greyhound' with Tom Hanks yet? I'm watching it now.
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I want to see it, but tom hanks is a liberal douchebag that’s taken a few trips to Epstein’s island on the Lolita express ...so I will pass
I saw an advertisement for it a while ago and completely forgot about it. Definitely gonna check it out.
You'll like it, I think. Definitely worth a watch. I'm glad I watch it. Hanks did a great acting job as commander of the Greyhound. A good cat and mouse battle between a wolf pack of German subs vs. the convoy destroyers led by Greyhound.
This.
Watched it last night really liked it. Great movie.
Don't understand why the U-boats surfaced so much.
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Don't understand why the U-boats surfaced so much.
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The Outpost was good. First hour drags with no real plot direction.
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Because of the limits of technology they were basically boats that could submerge. That's why the bow design is for running on the surface and not teardrop like a modern nuclear sub that can run underwater indefinitely.
Because speed and range were severely limited underwater while running on battery power, U-boats were required to spend most of their time surfaced running on diesel engines, diving only when attacked or for rare daytime torpedo strikes. The more ship-like hull design reflects the fact that these were primarily surface vessels that could submerge when necessary.
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Battery life limited submerged Operations....
operations.
Interesting notes. I'm a Navy vet, but know very little about submarines. Thanks.
Yes the max average life for underwater operations was about 12 hours any more then the build up of CO2 could aspexiated the crew and they would be first knocked out and then later die from a lack of oxygen, this was the max if they only kept their speed at 1/3rd or about 2 knots max any faster on the speed setting and endurance would would take a nose dive if they was on a 2/3rd speed setting than it was only about 6 hours 3/4th and flank 5-9 knots and you was looking at about 2 hours max. Then they was stuck and either had to blow ballast tanks and surface or sit right there if they had no Compressed air in the tanks to purge the water out of them and so basically die as they couldn't go forward and so be ablee to use the dive planes to surface.
Thing that is total garbage is the whole taunting over the radio unless the Germans would know first hand what this current convoy frequency was that never happened. Other than that most things are accurate with the weapons, their delivery and tactics used on both sides.
Thing that is total garbage is the whole taunting over the radio unless the Germans would know first hand what this current convoy frequency was that never happened. Other than that most things are accurate with the weapons, their delivery and tactics used on both sides.
Was the Greyhound a destroyer? Why was there only 1 in that entire fleet? Knowing how many Uboats are out there you'd think they would have more offensive war ships. Did allied subs not go along? No carrier?
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Depends on the year if this was pre summer of 1943 then there was about 1 escort for every 7-10 merchants after this period then it was about 1 for every 5 then from winter of 1943-44 to spring of 44 it was almost 1 to 3 after D-day to the end of the war it was almost 2 to 1 ratio and hence why the Germans would be lucky to sink 10-15 merchants in a month unlike the 1940- to early 42 where they sunk 200-500 a month or as it was known the Happy Times.
There are some crazy conspiracy stories, but would you ever know anyone to travel any where with a typewriter? Yes, an actual typewriter. Tom Hanks did to Australia, where he then announced he had the Corona virus.....the type writer was also called Corona. That just seems weird as hell.
kool gonna watch tomorrow
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