RC 1:96 Scale US Permit Class Submarine – Ready To Run

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RC Submarines

Product#: 0058

This custom sub is built by our builders as a surface runner submarine.

 

Many customers have expressed an interest in submarines, but want an AFFORDABLE surface running option WITHOUT the HIGH COST/ISSUES/MAINTENANCE of a diving submarine. As most RC diving submarines spend most of their time on the surface anyway, this model fills a gap in sub models for the enthusiast . The Radio System is 2.4GHZ to eliminated interference issues with the signal. Further, with 2.5GHZ, there is NO antennae showing.

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Unless you OWN or HAVE ACCESS to a LARGE SWIMMING POOL, MOST LAKES and PONDS are NOT CLEAR. Once a diving version submerges, YOU CAN'T SEE THEM WITHOUT SOME WATER CLARITY. This model was weighted and balanced to set in the water similar to the original. The boat DOES NOT BOB AROUND LIKE A MODEL as it weighs about 9 POUNDS. The boat is water tight even though it is not a diving sub model.

Directly behind the subs sail is access to the subs interior.  The access hatch behind the sail allows access to remove the battery (3000MAH, 7.2VOLT NIMH) and access the electronics.

 

PERMIT CLASS SUBMARINE 1:96 SCALE Technical Data

• LENGTH: 34 inches
• WIDTH: (4.5 inches)
• HEIGHT: (6 inches)
• PROP: RABOESCH -BRASS
• TOWER HOBBY 2-CHANNEL PISTOL GRIP RADIO = SYSTEM 24 - 2.4GHZ: RADIO & RECEIVER INCLUDED
• MOTOR: 385 (brushed) ELECTRIC
• BATTERY (INCLUDED): 7.2 3000MAH NIMH
• RC STATUS: RTR
• HULL MATERIAL: FIBERGLASS
• ELECTRONIC SPEED CONTROLLER (ESC): TAZAR 15T ESC

HISTORY OF THE PERMIT CLASS SUBMARINE

The Thresher/Permit class of United States Navy nuclear attack submarines were the replacement for the Skipjack class. They were used primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, until replaced by the Sturgeon and Los Angeles classes.
The Thresher/Permit class were the result of a study commissioned in 1956 by the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Admiral Arleigh Burke. In "Project Nobska," the Committee on Undersea Warfare of the National Academy of Sciences considered the lessons learned from various prototypes and experimental platforms

Design
The new class kept the proven S5W reactor plant from the immediately preceding Skipjack's, but were a radical change in many other ways. The Threshers had the large bow-mounted sonar and angled, amidships torpedo tubes pioneered by the Tullibee. The use of a new alloy steel, HY-80, increased the boats' test depth, and a redesign of the engineering spaces, with the turbines supported on "rafts" that were suspended from the hull on sound damping isolation mounts. Their hulls were more effectively streamlined and had smaller sails, so while they used the same reactor plant as the Skipjacks, their larger size did not reduce their speed.

Armament
The ships had torpedo launchers moved to the middle of the hull, so leaving free a lot of space for the huge BQQ-2 sonar system (BQQ-5 with modernized ships), a new and powerful detection low-frequency sensor. Initially they had Mark 37 torpedoes, but later they were replaced with the far better Mark 48 plus UGM-84 Harpoon (4, replacing the same number of Mk-48s) and UUM-44 SUBROC (6, later reduced to 4 when Harpoon was adopted). The maximum was 23 weapons, or theoretically 46 mines (Mk 57, 60 or 67), or a mix of mines, torpedoes and missiles.

Construction
The first submarine commissioned in this class was the ill-fated Thresher, and so the class was known by her name. When Thresher was lost, the class took the name of the second ship in the class, Permit, and the SubSafe Program began. SubSafe includes specific training of SubSafe Quality Assurance inspectors in the engine room crew, and tracks extremely detailed information about every component of a submarine's engine room that contacts seawater. In addition, joints in any equipment carrying seawater must be welded (not brazed), and every hull penetration larger than a certain size can be quickly shut by a remote hydraulic mechanism.

The engine room of Jack was lengthened by ten feet to accommodate an experimental direct-drive propulsion system using concentric counter-rotating propellers. Although counter-rotating propellers produced impressive gains in speed on the experimental Albacore, in Jack the results were disappointing. Flasher, Greenling, and Gato were fitted with heavier machinery and a larger sail, and made ten feet longer than the other units of the class to correct stability problems caused by that weight growth.

• Type: Fast attack submarine
• Displacement: 3,750 long tons (3,810 t) surfaced 4,300 long tons (4,369 t) submerged
• Length: 278 ft 5 in (84.86 m)
• Beam: 31 ft 7 in (9.63 m)
• Draft: 25 ft 2 in (7.67 m)
• Propulsion: 1 S5W PWR
• 2 steam turbines, 15,000 shp (11 MW)
• 1 shaft
• Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)+ surfaced 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)+ submerged
• Range: Unlimited, except by food supplies
• Test depth: 1,300 ft (400 m)
• Complement: 112
• Sensors and processing systems: BQQ-2 sonar (later BQQ-5) Mark 113 Fire-control system Periscopes
• Electronic warfare and decoys: ESM
• Armament: 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes amidships; 12-18 × Mark 37 torpedoes, later replaced by Mark 48s; 4-6 × UUM-44 SUBROC anti-submarine missiles; 4 × UGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles

 

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