Well this is interesting......

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

"Hunt for Red October" used a massive model, that was something like 20 feet long. I was watching a show that follows memorabilia auctioneers and someone sold the model. He had it in his garage, but it was pretty much filling it.

For the underwater scenes they had a model which looked damn real. For the above water scenes, the Navy actually participated. I read a while back they did 50 emergency blows with a couple of the subs and even some of the main characters went underwater in the sub.

But the underwater model sub looked 10x better than that new POS ABC sub TV show.