Submarine

This article deals with Submarine as it relates to NationStates. For more general information, see the Wikipedia article on this subject.

A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. Most major 'wet navies' of the world employ submarines. Submarines are also used for marine and freshwater science and for work at depths too great for divers.

Nuclear powered submarines and other large submarines are classed as ships, but are customarily referred to by their crews as "boats". Modern attack submarines, are known as fast attack subs and generally operate in the hunter-killer role, and large subs carrying strategic nuclear missiles are known as boomers.

Submarines encompass one of the largest ranges in capabilities of any vessel. They range from a small two man vessel that could examine the sea floor for few hours all the way to largest submarines ever builtwhich can remain submerged for months - sometimes even years - and carry enough nuclear missiles to destroy hundreds of cities.

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