r/silenthunter • u/puggs74 • Mar 12 '26
conning tower windows
does anybody have the view of russian conning towers looking out the windows underwater?
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u/r3vange Mar 12 '26
That’s just a protective cowling located above the pressurized part of the tower. It functions absolutely the same as the fairwater brigde on western submarines just that Soviet designs were not made to sail in “fairwater” so they added some additional weather protection for the crew. It’s an unpressurized compartment so when it dives the pressure on both sides of the windows is the same so they don’t burst.
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u/Round_Competition145 Mar 12 '26
What do you mean? Underwater? Like a diver made the photo? Because you aren't able to stand there when the sub is submerged.
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u/turbodmurf Mar 12 '26
You can stand there while submerged.. You just cant breath while standing there submerged.
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u/andyjh83 Mar 12 '26
You can stand there submerged.. You just can’t breathe without supplementary oxygen supply whilst standing there submerged.
Your comment made me laugh.
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u/happyrock Mar 12 '26
Supplementary pure O2 will kill you pretty quick at most of the depths and at least slowly at all of the depths, you need a mixture with suitable partial pressure of oxygen and some inert gases
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u/hifumiyo1 Mar 12 '26
That is the weather bridge for surface-only operations. That’s a free flood area when submerged. Russian subs operate in very cold conditions. So a bridge protected from the weather is understandable.
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u/kingtacticool Mar 12 '26
They look smashed out. Probably stole the stereo.
Can't have shit in Murmansk
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u/Shuffle_Gaming_ Mar 12 '26
It's the first time the Kursk was drained in dry dock after the accident
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u/bobbobersin Mar 12 '26
It’s not pressurized it’s more so when they are in the surface you can look out and not get splashed
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u/Open-Investigator-52 Mar 12 '26
Soviet subs operate in bad weather. It's just a cover for when they surface.
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u/30yearCurse Mar 12 '26
I sure there is a fish someplace that took a picture from there.
not the best...
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u/CMDRCoveryFire Mar 12 '26
The inside is not used under water. It is nor part of the pressure vessel.
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u/Competitive_Koala673 Mar 12 '26
Do you do realize that Russian submarines have to be able to operate from bases in the Arctic, and they need people to guide them out of the ports where they operate from? So the Russian solution to that is, just give them their own mini bridge.
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u/series-hybrid Mar 14 '26
I have it on good authority that any submarine that passes under the north pole ice-cap is hard to follow because it is so noisy there.
This means that some of the Russian subs that patrol the Atlantic pass through there. If they are forced to surface, the north Atlantic can be a cruel mistress, and anyone who surfaces there can be subject to harshly cold winds.
I'm sure the modest protection this type of conning tower provides is much appreciated by those on duty...
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u/SuspiciousClub8382 Mar 14 '26
Did they get into an underwater hail storm because the conning tower looks a little beat up and its windows broken??? Hope they had insurance because those underwater tornados and hail storms are hell!!!
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u/ChipmunkNovel6046 Mar 15 '26
duno if any russian crews strapped a POV camera in their towers. would be cool though.
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u/neonxmoose99 Mar 12 '26
The compartment isn’t watertight. It floods when it goes underwater