Sentences with phrase «soviet submarines»

I saw it many times while chasing Soviet submarines around the North Atlantic.

But how did they get the second Set of data when, because of Cold War activities, especially Soviet submarines tracking under the ice, data gathered by US submarines was top secret and inaccessible?

These concerns were triggered by the discovery that Soviet submarines were getting into the north Atlantic by transiting under the Arctic ice, passing through the deepest channel out of the Arctic Basin (the East Greenland Channel), thus bypassing the submarine and air barrier set up between Iceland and Scotland.

This is a true crime documentary featuring a Russian mobster, a Miami playboy and a Cuban spy who sold a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel for $ 35 million.

Operation Odessa: Operation Odessa is a true crime documentary about a Russian mobster, a Miami playboy and a Cuban spy who sold a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel for $ 35 million.

The film centers on Clancy's popular protagonist Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst who in previous films based on Clancy's work has investigated a renegade Soviet submarine (The Hunt for Red October), protected his family from IRA members (Patriot Games), and helped bring an end to a Colombian drug cartel (Clear and Present Danger).

Operation Odessa: From the director and producers of «The Seven Five» comes this true crime documentary about a Russian mobster, a Miami playboy and a Cuban spy who sold a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel for $ 35 million.

To provide that true underwater feeling, MacDonald filmed some scenes onboard an old Soviet submarine that is moored in the River Medway in Kent (UK).

Philip: It's tough to be taken seriously when you have a movie that's trying to tell a story about a Soviet Submarine in the 1960's, and not one actor in the film attempts a Russian accent.

Thorpe's Candle by Joe Moore A Matt Skyler International Adventure The Soviet Submarine bears no markings except for a white flag with crossbones and a skull.

Packed with too many stars to mention, Jack Ryan, played by Alec Baldwin, finds himself on the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Dallas trying to convince its Captain, Bart Mancuso, that a Soviet submarine they are chasing is actually looking to defect, not to attack the U.S. with nuclear weapons as the Soviets claim.

by Jason Burke in Paris for The Observer The conning tower of a large Soviet submarine pokes up from the still waters of one of the centuries - old fountains in the Tuileries gardens, blasting Russian martial music from a loudspeaker.

A Soviet submarine was armed with nuclear weapons.

Not exact matches

China had previously purchased two former Soviet aircraft carriers to be used as tourist attractions, and the Liaoning, known as the Varyag at the time, was deemed to be too deteriorated to be able to be used for active duty, and the Chinese Navy was more focused on submarines at the time.

The high speeds were originally a major requirement to allow American subs to chase down fast - moving Soviet attack submarines, which were also capable of diving deep and out of range, thanks to reinforced titanium pressure hulls.

The Soviets have recently put more nuclear submarines on our doorstep in response to our installing the Pershing II in Western Europe.

In the 1950s and»60s, the Soviet Union pioneered titanium's use by utilizing it in military airplanes, submarines, and rockets aimed at the moon and America.

He noted that, in the previous weeks, he had dealt with a minor crisis over a US spy plane shot down by the Soviets, negotiations with the US about stationing Polaris submarines in the Clyde, fishery disputes with Iceland, alarmist Treasury papers on the economy, the reconstruction of the cabinet and a decision to build the new liner Queen Elizabeth II.

The 618 - foot Glomar Explorer, a former CIA vessel built during the Nixon administration to recover a Soviet nuclear submarine that sank deep in the Pacific, was converted into a deepwater - drill ship.

Academy Award - winning Cold War thriller based on Alister MacLean's bestseller stars Rock Hudson as an American nuclear submarine captain in a deadly race against the Soviets to find a downed satellite beneath the polar ice cap.

The best submarine commander in the Soviet Union (Connery, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) now leads the maiden voyage of the Red October, a spiffy new nuclear submarine capable of going undetected by sonar, to the United States.

USAs submarines, in order to hold targets deep inside Soviet / Russia at risk, did routinely hold station under the arctic ice for extended periods, and the ice above had to be something they could penetrate, so they measured it.

Despite decades of cat - and - mouse sonar hunts by American and Soviet nuclear submarines, no one had mapped this vast chunk of rock until now, or run into it (as has happened elsewhere).

Finally, the submarine, especially the Rickover nuclear powered submarine provided the science of the oceans, its currents, polar ice caps and mapping the relevant underwater terrain that had the Soviets always chasing the US science EXCEPT for Sputnik and Yuri Gagarian.

Examples include Russian and U.S. sea ice chart data, submarine upward looking sonar ice draft data, and historical Soviet snow data.