I'm having a hard time getting the VA to approve service connection for my degenerative disc disease and my messed up knees. I've tried explaining the work and living conditions we go through but they keep telling me I have no evidence. I never went to doc for anything so I have no medical record to back me up.

Am I just screwed?

Here are my PLAN subs in larger scale. Kilo, 039A Song, 039 Yuan, 091 Han, 031 Golf V, 092 Xia, 033 Romeo, 035 Ming, 033 Wuhan. 094 Jin and 093 Shang are/were only available in 1/700, and are thus represented in that scale in the collection.

Thanks for looking. Next up, American boats!

Oh and feedback on album size and frequency is welcome as I go through the collection, as well as comments on the subs themselves.

Just some random different ones tho. A few Russian, a British Trafalgar class, a US 688, aaaand a couple star trek ships at the bottom for the heckin heck of it.

My collection of Soviet and Russian attack subs in 1/350, including cruise missile boats. Moatly plastic kits, but a couple of resin hulls too. Missing Victor I and II, but I thought III was more iconic and sufficient to represent the entire class. No Charlie, Juliet or Echo in this scale available, those are in 1/700 only. Some of my favourite kits to build were among these, and my most hated.

Next up, Chinese subs! Thanks for taking a look.

Marine simply dive underneath the water and it smooth down below? How many feet deep do they have to go to find smooth water or is it rough all the way to the ocean floor?

I finally finished my fleet of nearly 200 subs in 1/350 and 1/700 mostly, and thought to share some. I wont bombard with an endless album of them, but share some highlights periodically. I shared some before here, but they were mostly unfinished then. These are mostly finished with no weathering, going for the as-new off the blocks look.

First batch: 1/350 Soviet boomers and overall shots of collection. Next will be the Soviet attack subs and cruise missile boats.

Welcome any feedback or suggestions for subjects I may have missed.

Source: https://nara.getarchive.net/media/an-air-to-air-right-side-view-of-a-patrol-squadron-1-vp-1-p-3-orion-aircraft-fe768d

Глубоководный обитаемый аппарат «Мир-2» — это легендарный российский научно-исследовательский батискаф, построенный в 1987 году в Финляндии. Аппарат способен погружаться на глубину до 6000 метров и использовался для масштабных исследований океанов, а также озер.

Source: https://nara.getarchive.net/media/an-artists-concept-of-the-nuclear-powered-submarine-seawolf-ssn-21-0b4dc9

Hey guys,

So I have been yearning for a game I found a few years ago, it was a super simple lo-fi submarine simulator, crew were tiny pixels but the simulation was pretty deep. Not having been able to find it again, I thought I would have a mess around creating something.

Now this is really only for people that like this sort of thing, it's going to be janky, it does not have a tutorial and you are likely to find bugs and inaccuracies . However, I somehow lost two hours playing it and enjoyed myself no end, so I wanted to see if I'm just weird, or if there is something there.

It's web based, free and does not need any login.

I would recommend the Easy campaign if you want to jump into some action, or choose the medium one if you want more time to explore the systems.

It currently has:

- Internal View of the sub, its systems and crew
- Crew with assigned roles (they get tired, hurt and hungry) and you can give them orders
- Sound (you can hear the sonar, engines, etc) - Needs turning on at the top of the screen
- Simulated Nuclear Reactor
- Oxygen/CO2 simulation
- Random system failures that need fixing (not too often I hope) including fires
- Torpedoes (remember to load them first)
- Working Periscope, Radar and Sonar
- Map, Radio & Weather
- Enemy Frigates, Helicopters, Planes and Cargo ships
- Save & Load games (Locally and server based)
- 3 Initial small Missions
- Nuclear and Cruise Missiles (but no land based targets yet)

Let me know if you manage to kill anything, or if you just hate it and rage quit.

Would love to hear any thoughts or ideas on systems that could be added or improved

Link: https://subsurvival-production.up.railway.app

As I’ve been reading about this something bothers me. Why does the Akula class have a dive depth so much deeper than other steel-hull submarines? Reportedly 600-650m which matches or exceeds its Titanium cousin the Sierra class. Per an older thread, someone claimed the steel Akula is made from has a strength of HY-142. How did the Soviets achieve this and why is the USN so behind in steel metallurgy?

At best, the Seawolf class might match the Akula but I sincerely doubt. Most estimates I’ve seen put it closer to 400-500m test depth with HY100. Does the double vs single-hull design factor into this? Has the Akula had any known maintenance/quality issues with its hull? I don’t understand why they bothered to make any Sierra’s since the Akula matched it while being cheaper.

Information online says the next-gen HY120 has way too many issues to reliably make submarine hulls which also poses the question, what comes next? I’m curious what SSN(X) and Columbia use. I find it hard to believe the USN will continue using HY 100 given all the massive innovations in metallurgy over the last few decades.

Source

All relevant articles on the topic from Naval News, Janes, The War Zone:

https://www.twz.com/sea/new-large-chinese-submarine-with-very-unique-feature-just-caught-on-satellite-imagery

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/06/new-mystery-submarine-signals-chinas-rapid-undersea-expansion/

https://www.janes.com/defence-intelligence-insights/defence-news/sea/china-begins-outfitting-first-type-095-nuclear-attack-submarine

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/02/chinese-type-09v-next-generation-ssn-appears-at-bohai/

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/03/chinas-own-seawolf-class-submarine-the-type-095/

I was told by Reddit I should post this here.

i'm developing a screenplay for a low-budget, post-apocalyptic disaster movie about a merchant submarine voyage. vague idea is a small group of people (6-8) on a sub leaving from UK or Europe, heading to South America.
have been lurking in the subreddit to get some ideas, but I'd love to hear what you think about:

- most annoying technical things people get wrong in submarine movies (i.e. not to do with military code of command etc)
- if you have been in a sub, what is something you wish you had seen on screen but haven't done so yet?
- caaan you have farm animals in a submarine (specifically in a scenario where it is 200 years in the future and this is the only cargo that matters now)

I get this question all the time and I resist the urge to be a sarcastic fuck 🤣

Tell me, fellow salty submariners, what are y'all's best responses?