RamscoopRaider
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Huh I thought the cook was enlisted and there were a few warrants. May have varied based on timeYep. The reactor has to stay up and running at all times; if it stops even a split second, the metal cools and game over. New reactor please. Pretty sure it's one of the reasons why the crew was entirely made of officers.
True, but their combination of high speed, high hull strength, high manouverability and dive depth forced NATO to rush a new generation of ASW torpedoes, cause there was a real fear of the current ones not being able to kill an Alfa...
The Alfa was supposed to be the first of a new gen of fast submarines, there was a bigger variant with 650mm Torpedo Tubes planned, as well as an SSBN variant that could defend itself against SSN's and thus not need bastions, though I'm fairly sure they were cancelled well before the end of the cold war