Tangent: back in the mid-80's I was in college, working in a co-op job for a major vendor of radar systems to the military. This was back when Hunt for Red Oct

Tangent: back in the mid-80's I was in college, working in a co-op job for a major vendor of radar systems to the military. This was back when Hunt for Red October came out, and it seems that the book was so factually accurate that some of the radar engineers actually kept a copy on their desks for technically reference.