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Down Periscope is a 1996 American military comedy submarine film directed by David S. Ward, produced by Robert Lawrence, and starring Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, and Rob Schneider along with Bruce Dern, Harry Dean Stanton, William H. Macy, and Rip Torn in supporting roles.
1889 Arthur Krebs & Jean Rey periscope for the French submarine Gymnote. Periscopes allow a submarine, when submerged at a relatively shallow depth, to search visually for nearby targets and threats on the surface of the water and in the air. When not in use, a submarine's periscope retracts into the hull.
Torpedo Alley, also known as Down Periscope, is a 1952 American war film directed by Lew Landers and starring Mark Stevens, Dorothy Malone and Charles Winninger. It depicts a US Navy pilot rescued at sea by submarine before applying for submarine duty.
The cramped, equipment-filled set of a submarine film (Das Boot, 1981) The submarine film is a subgenre of war film in which most of the plot revolves around a submarine below the ocean's surface. Films of this subgenre typically focus on a small but determined crew of submariners battling against enemy submarines or submarine-hunter ships, or ...
Greeneville 's AVSDU (center) and periscope (partly visible, right side) For 15 minutes, beginning at 13:15, 46 minutes after the scheduled time, Greeneville performed a series of drastic maneuvers, including high-speed, full-rudder, 35-degree turns side to side, as well as rapid up-and-down movements. Waddle personally directed the maneuvers.
Down periscope. A British Royal Navy officer is being investigated for allegedly shooting pornography films at a nuclear submarine base in the U.K.
The United States Navy is a force that stays ahead of the curve in tech. As such, you can expect the latest ships to roll out of the dry docks to be cutting-edge, ready to take on whatever mission ...
Virtual periscope is a system that allows submerged submarines to observe the surface above them without having to come to a shallower depth, as is required by traditional periscopes. The system, described in a patent as "Virtual Periscope", [1] was tested in 2005 aboard USS Chicago (SSN-721). It employed a small camera mounted on the sail of ...