A gigantic, expensive, cutting edge radar picket submarine seems impossibly unlikely, but when military technology moved as fast as it did 1950-1970, it makes sense that unforeseeable obsolescence could happen in less than a decade.
I was 9 years old in 1960 and remember reading that NatGeo issue documenting the voyage in great detail. Remember that the mission almost failed because they had to medevac a crewman with an appendicitis attack but figured out a way to get the sailor off without fully surfacing.
This event led to a very short-lived desire to attend Canoe U.
A gigantic, expensive, cutting edge radar picket submarine seems impossibly unlikely, but when military technology moved as fast as it did 1950-1970, it makes sense that unforeseeable obsolescence could happen in less than a decade.
I was 9 years old in 1960 and remember reading that NatGeo issue documenting the voyage in great detail. Remember that the mission almost failed because they had to medevac a crewman with an appendicitis attack but figured out a way to get the sailor off without fully surfacing.
This event led to a very short-lived desire to attend Canoe U.
Interesting, was not aware. A very peculiar submarine, indeed!