SONAR room of a Thresher/Permit-class nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Gato (SSN-615), 1995.
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  • 41 points Adept_Ad_4369

    I can hear this picture.

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    28 points Beerificus

    SONAR room go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr (in 400hz).

    Only difference I see to 688 is 3 stacks instead of 4, maybe Q5-C instead of D.

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    7 points SaintEyegor

    We had Q-5B on the 711 when I was in. I saw Q-5C when I was working in the 21B64 lab at IBM Manassas. It looked like a big improvement.

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    6 points WeatheredGenXer

    I can smell this picture.

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    1 points Complete_Comb_9591

    Wow looks familiar to the 681Batboat.

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  • 18 points AbeFromanEast

    "That man is playing Galaga"

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    6 points mulligansteak

    I understood that reference!

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  • 15 points SwvellyBents

    Looks like the Navy has come a long way since the BQS-13 with A2D2!

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  • 10 points yoyok36

    Legacy ass consoles 😂

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    7 points CanSub876

    Somebody will say the same one day, about Q-10.

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  • 18 points Leaf__On__Wind

    I love old cassette futurism submarines

    Also* like old early WW1 subs that have Captain Nemo esq fish fin lines, especially around the rudders, and* these* Threshers* too* still have a natural aquadynamic look as if applied by an artist, not just a cigar with a hat

    Edit*

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  • 13 points bubblehead_maker

    I could feel those pros swiping under my fingers.  Those dimus displays are bringing back memories of oods asking what that dimus trace is.

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    11 points SaintEyegor

    con, sonar… the DIMUS trace at 180 relative is own ship.

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    0 points bubblehead_maker

    Designate dimus at 180 as henway, assigning tracker alpha, sierra 19.

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  • 5 points Last_Baker7437

    Nice! I was on Plunger 83-86, started as a sonar striker until I saw the light and went QM.

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  • 4 points Saturnax1

    Author unknown.

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  • 4 points wonderbeen

    Eerily similar to what I remember on the Nebraska. Except our stations were in a different order than in the pic. And our door out would have been to the Sup’s left as we sat on the port side & faced outboard. Which made for some interesting times on the surface with a moderate sea state as you rolled towards & away from the screen 🤢

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  • 5 points lostinoman

    Ohh my god, all the hours I spent in front of those stacks!

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  • 5 points MyKatInABox

    Wow...the "waterfall" on a CRT👍

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  • 3 points Boring-Alps7251

    I was on 666, looks the same!

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  • 2 points BZ2USvets81

    My second boat. That was about a year after I left.

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  • 5 points DuckiestBoat959

    I tried to restore it. Might not be as bright but it looks a bit more pretty.https://imgur.com/a/MVnI0Qw

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    5 points liedel

    Looks better in every way in the OP

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    1 points DuckiestBoat959

    😖

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    1 points liedel

    🤷‍♂️

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    2 points WardoftheWood

    Shit, that is seriously causing in flashbacks with lighting.

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  • 3 points Thoughts_As_I_Drive

    Beautiful waterfalls.

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  • 4 points WoodenNichols

    Is that a waterfall trace at lower right?

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  • 2 points jimmattisow

    Sierra-6 designated biologics

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  • 1 points gwhh

    Was this photo allowed to be taken back in the day?

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    6 points Middcore

    Not sure, but I will say the Thresher/Permit class was at the very end of its service life by 1995. Gato was one of the last ones, decommissioned in 1996. So the stuff in this pic was probably very much not US Navy state of the art at the time.

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    3 points WeatheredGenXer

    Except it looks pretty much like the BQQ-5 system I trained on in the late-80's.

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    2 points SaintEyegor

    We could take photos of the PBB displays but not the others.

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  • 1 points Away-South356

    Where's the printer?

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  • 1 points WardoftheWood

    Wait those are not ‘the cups’ on the stack.

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  • 1 points Duke_Cedar

    I bet this is a '37

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  • 1 points Character-Tennis815

    Picture is the Gato,but the year is 1990,that's me as sonar supervisor wearing the hat, we are on the surface

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