US captured V-1 missile tests 1949 - 1951

Pat Flannery wrote:

Derek Lyons wrote:
I hadn't thought of this until just tonight, but the design of the
Typhoon* class missile sub puts the missiles in two side-by-side rows
that are located between twin small diameter pressure hulls and only
attached to them via a single inspection hatch on each tube.
During submerged operations the missile tubes are surrounded by water in
a free-flooding section of the sub's interior.
This could well have been due to the realization that a missile
explosion inside of the main pressure hull ("hulls" in the case of
Typhoon, there are four separate pressure hulls inside of the exterior
hull connected by hatches) could doom the whole sub.

This was probably mostly to keep the weight of the missiles on/near
the centerline and to minimize the effects of the rapid weight shifts
was the missile was ejected and the tube subsequently backflooded from
the sea. Had they been located on the centerline of the pressure
hulls, they would have had a much longer lever arm and consequently
induced higher loadings and motions.

I doubt there position would have made much difference in the event of
accidental ignition and the subsequent explosion.

I'm wondering if the area around the tubes in the forward outer hull is
free-flood or filled with stainless steel buoyancy balls like we us in
similar areas outside the pressure hull in ours.

Except we don't use any such things.

I assumed it was free-flooding, but there don't seem to be any limber
holes visible above water when surfaced to let the air out on diving,
unless it comes out of the hinge end of the missile doors.

ISTR there being a number of vents topside on the missile decks...
But keep in mind two things; A) the Soviets did use doors on limber
holes sometimes, and B) modern [nuclear] submarines don't crash dive
or crash surface. You don't need the big honkin' limber holes
characteristic of the diesel boats.

D.
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