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I'm surprised it's so dirty and rusty. American crews clean their ships, then they clean them again if they run out of clean things to clean. I'm sure budget
by ARandomerDude 6y ago
I'm surprised it's so dirty and rusty. American crews clean their ships, then they clean them again if they run out of clean things to clean. I'm sure budget plays a large role but I couldn't stop looking at the rust, chipped paint, and dirt.
- giarc 6y agoThis one doesn't look operational, however I could be wrong.
- alkonaut 6y agoThese are abandoned for many years I assume?
- simonh 6y agoThese photos are from 11 years ago, and in the comments from 2009 they're saying how they'd already been neglected for a long time so they may have been rusting for a decade or more even then. I wonder what they look like now.
- gscott 6y agoIn the comments he says it was scrapped...
- marcinzm 6y agoBased on Wikipedia, I'm guessing this was TK-17 and 20 as TK-12/13 were probably scrapped before these picture were taken. TK-17 and TK-20 where officially decommissioned in 2004/2006. They were probably effectively decommissioned years before that but it'd make bad PR to say so. The pictures are from 2009 so that's many years sitting neglected with probably just enough people to keep the reactor alive and theft at bay.
- andromeduck 6y agoNo, the post was published in 2009 but the photos themselves were taken in 2004.
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- chrisseaton 6y agoDo you realise that these submarines aren't in service?