Nuclear submarine missile chamber
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Nuclear submarine missile chamber
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
The missile chamber of the Nuclear submarine S611 Redoutable that operated in the '60s and '70s. It was surprising to find the deadliest killing technology of the time next to a 19th century communications system. That is however a fail-safe means to talk to the people right above or below, so it is probably the most efficient system. Quite shocking to find, though.
The Redoutable (S 611) was the lead ship of her class in the French Marine.
Commissioned in 1971, she was the first French Device-Launching Nuclear Submarine. Fitted first with 16 M1 ballistic missiles, she was refitted with the M2 missile, and later with the M20, each delivering a one-megatonne warhead at a range over 3,000 km.
The Redoutable (French for "formidable" or "fearsome") had a 20-year duty history, and was decommissioned in 1991. In 2000, she was removed from the water and placed in a purpose-built 136 meter dry dock. In 2002, the nuclear reactor section removed and replaced, she opened as a museum ship at the Cite de la Mer in Cherbourg, France, being now the largest submarine open to the public and the only complete ballistic missile submarine hull open to the public.
There is a black framed version of this picture.
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November 24th, 2014
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