US Navy Next-Gen Attack Submarine is a Nightmare for China

Fast, stealthy, and attack submarine. Feast your eyes on America’s next generation Block V Virginia class nuclear fast-attack submarine. Its new upgrades will make it the most advanced in America’s subsurface fleet that is critical to protecting the western pacific region. Please Just don’t be like that sailor in the Indian Navy who accidentally left a hatch open and deadlined their 3 billion dollar sub for a year. Guys, There are easier ways to get out of your enlistment.

But The Pentagon recently slashed the production rate of the U.S Virginia class from two per year down to just one. This triggered major backlash within the halls of Congress. Because by the Navy’s own estimates, US shipyards need to produce at least two Virginia class attack subs per year to deter future threats. Today we’re going to find out what makes the Virgina class so deadly. What role it plays in the Navy’s broader strategy. And why the Pentagon is cutting this asset in half. I’m your average infantryman chris cappy lets do this thing!

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[lordlink]

Hey Mr Cappy, I work for a speaker company! Anechoic chambers are what sound engineers build to reduce or completely destroy an echo in a room. For us it's used to tune speakers using special microphones, that way we know we aren't getting any room feedback or standing waves. Also it took me a bit to understand what you were saying because I usually hear it pronounced AN-ECHO- ICK. Awesome video, this is a very interesting topic to me. Fun fact: Humans tend to feel uncomfortable in anechoic chambers because of the silence and when you talk it's just dead air.

[forrestsory]

Nice report. For a ground pounder. Ex boat sailor here (SSBN626). It's called a boat due to Naval tradition. A boat is a small craft that is typically carried by a much larger craft called a ship. The first modern submarines the navy had in quantity in the early 1900s had such limited endurance and range they had to be transported by another ship lowered by crane from the ship then proceed into the combat zone and return. You had to have guts to get in one of those things. They were so flimsy you could die from a dozen different things while on a simple training mission. To honor them we still call submarines boats even though some of those boats are the size of WW2 aircraft carriers now.

[adambald]

“Dare I say a little naughty” 😂😂 bro you’re killing me

[dasiksupahuman]

f water it makes no sense. There are sharks in my rivers and crocodiles in my ocean. I don't even trust the pools and puddles in Australia

[hudsondunn]

“I never trust water”
Same, the media wants you to think that I am hydrophobic but the truth is I don’t agree with there lifestyle.

[HowieDune]

Wtf now it's not a secret dude...

[JohnNathanShopper]

Things I learned today: Sonar countermeasures consist of a dude playing kazoo. This explains so much.

[ericb.]

The lack of highly trained and experienced personnel to build subs is a real problem for the US Navy. Hence you see actual TV ads touting the good life for these workers to entice young people to enter shipbuilding for such an exotic ships.

[necrothitude]

My favorite Mk48 ADCAP anecdote came from Aaron at Sub Brief. He described trying to evade one of those torpedoes in an exercise. They were throwing countermeasures that make noises you've never even heard of, and that weapon just doesn't care. He summarized by saying that if you're in the water an an ADCAP gets sent your way, you best just surface the ship and start calling your loved ones. It will track, it will find you, it will kill you.

[mrdyvig]

I'm a prairie boy and have never seen the ocean. Now I don't want to.

[bernarrcoletta]

Are you saying that the Virginia-class is silent, but deadly?

[ThisGuy]

As someone who served on 3 separate SSBNs (those ballistic subs you mentioned) I say, Come on in! The water's fine! Enjoyed the video! I always enjoy learning about what we are doing now, compared to what we were able to do when I made my living poking holes in the water.

[FlatTires]

I recall China rudely testing missiles back in 2010 that was upsetting many neighbors and a polite request by the US was ignored. 3 Ohio's were then simultaneously surfaced near China's coasts and all missile testing stopped...

[ttrestle]

For those of you who love this topic, I highly recommend reading the book blind man’s Bluff. The audiobook is usually available for free on places like hoopla and YouTube although make sure you get the unabridged version. Some of the stories mentioned in that book are so unbelievable that I still can’t believe the federal government allowed it to be published. Particularly the story of how we tapped the undersea cables of the Russian military, submarines like this. And because most of those stories happened decades ago, I can’t imagine what the submarines are getting up to today. There is a reason it’s called the silent service.

[TheTISEOMan]

What I like to say about the VA is that currently with Hydrophone technology, we are at it's limit in terms of the laws of physics. It's why we haven't made any successors to the TB-29 towed array that are "better" in the way of more sensitivity. and instead are trying to move it from Piezoelectric hydrophones to fiber optics while keeping the same effectiveness. To make the Towed Array more sensitive now, we basically just need to make it bigger. Similarly. The WAA ranging uses the fiber optics in the hull that was talked about in the video. This is like the Guppy III modifications back then in the 1950s where you have three passive sonar hydrophones that then can take the data and triangulate a distance. Kinda like how you can measure distance due to the binocular effect of your eyes but imagine having 3 eyes that are massive.

Currently, because of our learning moment from the Gotland class. We are blowing the world of hydrophones out of the war with the Large Aperture array which should actually not necessarily rely on sound but the movement of water to search for submarines using velocimetry. This means in theory. No matter how quiet you are, you can be visualized based off water movement and how water moves around your sub.

[Cowboycomando]

Finally, my state got a ship named after it. USS Montana, Virginia Class fast attack. Also fun fact, certain classes of US nuclear subs can operate their reactors using natural circulation, making them even quieter due to the coolant pumps not needing to be ran.

[Condor]

At 16:20, it's funny you say technically they are ships. They are. When announcements were made over the 1MC, the Con would use the word "ship", like "Rig ship for ultra-quiet."

But for the crew, we always referred to it as the "Boat".

[christopherc]

The silent service is my favorite part of the MAD doctrine.

[trentvlak]

I like how careful you were in the intro to avoid saying "Silent but Deadly".

[YouTube_user]

The issue is America doesn’t have enough shipyards!
The navy has a huge backlog of maintenance waiting to be done on active ships. They barely have any capacity to build new subs and ships. In a war economy, it’s going to be hard to fight without these types of facilities.