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September 2020 Newsletter September 2020 Volume 21, Issue 9 Lest We Forget — Inside This Issue: Meeting minutes 2 “The USSVI Submariner’s Creed” Lost Boats 2 To perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who Undersea Warfare Hist 2 gave their lives in the pursuit of their duties while Micro Models 3 serving their country. That their dedication, deeds, Subs Look in 20 Years 5 and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of Sub ‘Top Gun’ Aggressor 7 motivation toward greater accomplishments. Contact information 9 Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America and its Constitution. Application form 10 News Brief 1. Next Meeting: Restrictions on group gatherings related to Coronavirus have caused a temporary suspension of our monthly meetings. One outdoor meeting is scheduled as noted below. September 19 – In-person, outdoor, picnic-style lunch and meeting at Knollwood Sportsmen’s Club at 1100. Very Important Note: EACH SHIPMATE ATTENDING SHOULD TAKE THEIR OWN LUNCH, BEVERAGE, AND CHAIR. October 17 – WATCH E-MAIL FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT. 2. Duty Cook Roster: a. GET READY TO VOLUNTEER WHEN OUR MEETINGS RESUME. 3. September Birthdays: Ted Rotzoll 8th; Charles Daniels 17th, and Bob Krautstrunk 18th. Happy Birthday Shipmates! 4. Do you shop on Amazon? Remember to use Amazon Smile for the benefit of our Charitable Foundation. Donations through August totaled $3,865. 5. Giving back – Our base’s September meeting includes standing up the Nominating Committee for officer elections. Volunteers are needed both for the Nominating Committee as well as candidates for elected positions. In 2020, the officers to be elected include the Base Commander and Base Treasurer. As the song says, “Express Yourself”. Crash Dive Meeting Minutes September 9, 1943 | USS Trout (SS August 15, 2020 202) sank the Japanese submarine I-182. September 10, 1944 | USS Sunfish The August meeting and all future (SS 281) intercepted a convoy meetings currently are cancelled coming out of the Tsushima Strait. due to COVID-19. She sank the Chihaya Maru and damaged several other targets. Lost Boats September 11, 2001 | American Airlines flight 77 is hijacked by USS S-5 (SS-110) 09/1/20 terrorist and hits the Pentagon, USS Grayling (SS-209) 09/09/43 causing 184 fatalities. American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines USS S-51 (SS-162) 09/25/25 flight 175 hit the Twin Towers at the USS Cisco (SS-290) 09/28/43 World Trade Center, New York City. United Airlines flight 93 goes down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania after Undersea Warfare History passengers engaged the hijackers. September 12, 1944 | USS Pampanito September 3, 1943 | USS Pollack (SS (SS 383) sank the transport 180) sank the 3,421 ton cargo ship Kachidaki Maru and the tanker Zuiho Tagonoura Maru. Maru while damaging a third ship. September 4, 1941 | USS Greer (DD September 13, 1996 | USS Cheyenne 145) is attacked by the German (SSN 773) is commissioned at Naval submarine U-652. Greer is Station Norfolk. Cheyenne was the undamaged in the attack, and 62nd and last of the Los Angeles- damages U-652 with depth charges. class submarines built. The attack led President Roosevelt September 16, 1944 | USS Picuda (SS to issue shoot-on-sight order, 382) probed deeper into the interior directing Navy ships to attack any of Luzon Strait for a bold daylight ship threatening U.S. shipping or attack on an 8 ship convoy guarded foreign shipping under escort. by 3 destroyers and air cover. September 5, 1776 | The Continental Picuda sank the 5975-ton Tokushima Navy adopts first uniforms for naval Maru and scored hits on 2 other officers. freighters. September 6, 1997 | USS Louisiana September 17, 1943 | USS Trigger (SS (SSBN 743) is commissioned. The 237) fired 4 torpedoes striking the boat was the last of the Navy’s 18 6435 ton cargo ship Yowa Maru.. Ohio-class nuclear-powered fleet September 18, 1793 | George ballistic missile submarines. Washington lays the cornerstone to September 7, 1776 | American craft the United States Capitol building, Turtle attacks HMS Eagle in first the home of the legislative branch of naval attack ever made in a American government. The building submersible vehicle. would take nearly a century to complete. Page 2 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL September 19, 1944 | USS Bang (SS How U.S. Navy’s Micro 385) made radar contact with an enemy convoy, submerged and fired Models Will Help on 2 of the ships. The tanker Tosei Submarines Stay Invisible Maru No. 2 sank, while the other David Hambling, Forbes, August 12 vessel suffered substantial damage. September 20, 1942 | USS Wahoo Model submarines small enough to rest (SS 238) sank a 6,400 ton freighter on your thumbnail will make sure real south of Namonuito Atoll. submarines stay invisible and aid in September 23, 1943 | USS Harder identifying enemy submarines and other (SS 257) sank a 4,500 ton freighter, vessels. Kowa Maru and a 5,800 ton tanker Daishin Maru off Nagoya Bay. The U.S. Navy is combining two new September 24, 1944 | USS Kingfish technologies, 3D printing and (SS 234) sailed on her 5th war nanophotonics, to create precise models patrol, headed for the South China showing how submarines and other Sea and accomplished two special warships appear to radar. Computer missions. September 25, 1944 | USS Guardfish modeling of radar signatures is (SS 217) sinks Japanese merchant extremely time-consuming and may get cargo ship, No.2, Miyakawa Maru, in it wrong; the only way to be sure how the Yellow Sea off Chinnampo. radar sees something is to put it – or an September 26, 1963 | First steam- exact copy — in front of a radar set. eject launch of Polaris missile at sea occurs off Cape Canaveral, Fla., Full-size ‘pole models’ are a familiar from USS Observation Island (EAG from stealth aircraft research. The 154). slightest radar ‘glint’ spoils the whole September 27, 1944 | USS Apogon design, so rigorous testing involving an (SS 308) sank the 2,000 ton cargo exact model is necessary. Some ship, Hachirogata Maru. Following companies specialize in building radar the attack, she rescued two test models – Advanced Technologies Japanese survivors. Incorporated have built full-scale models September 30, 1944 | USS Ronquil of the F-22, F/A-18 E/F and Comanche (SS 396) Began her second war RAH-66 helicopter (and probably patrol, which was carried out in two others) for radar testing. While these phases. She first operated with a models are little more than a skeleton coordinated submarine attack group with skin stretched over it, they are still in the Bungo Suido, then joined six costly and time-consuming to produce. other submarines to carry out an anti-patrol sweep off the Bonin More recently it has been possible to Islands. use scaled-down models. A radar operating at 1/100th the wavelength of an actual search radar will see a 1/100th scale model exactly as the real radar sees the full-size version. However, Page 3 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL accurate 1/100th scale ship models that a new design is stealthy and is as currently take months to produce. close as possible to invisible to radar. Smaller might be better, but radar only (This would help, for example, with the works down to certain wavelengths. challenge of adding a high-power laser Enter the new field of nanophotonics weapon to a photonics mast, an actual which offers an alternative, making it project). possible to build a sensor that works like radar, using antennas rather than The desktop range will help with lenses, but picks up visible light. “identifying the location and the nature of the strongest scatters and glints from This technique makes it possible to scale the proposed Navy structure of interest. everything down by a factor of 10,000. This ability allows for an intuitive The Navy want to employ interaction with the structure model to nanophotonics to create a ‘desktop eliminate these sources of unwanted radar range’: “At that scale, an entire scattering and minimize the RCS Virginia-class submarine (~150 meters) [=Radar Cross Section] from visible to can be recreated to a length of 1.5 RF [=Radio Frequency] range.” In other centimeters and can easily fit in a words, designers can literally see where tabletop measurement setup,” according the problem is that is spoiling the to a solicitation on the Small Business stealth. Innovation Research website. The other function would be finding out The plan is to use near infra-red what other nation’s ships look like to wavelengths, because there are many radar. Models can easily be created from materials which accurately reproduce photographs, and by checking on the the effects of radar waves at longer desktop range it will be possible to find wavelengths. Models will be made by 3D out their radar signature. Submarine printing in a matter of hours, and the masts can be observed when they are in radar testing would take minutes. This port or on the surface – as in the recent will make radar assessment of new Russian Oscar-class submarine transiting designs far faster than at present. the English Channel. Being able to identify these by radar – from ships, The desktop radar range would have aircraft or even from space — would be two functions. One would be useful. determining the radar signature of any new proposed U.S. warship or “Even nuclear submarines sometimes modification – the proposal specifically have to use their periscope, or any of mentions checking changes to submarine the array of sensor masts which now periscopes, or ‘photonics masts’ as they adorn them,” says Forbes contributor HI are now known.
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