Skip Tyler:
[looking at photos of Red October which show the doors in the front and back of the sub]
I'll be... this... this could be a caterpillar.
Jack Ryan:
A what?
Skip Tyler:
Uh, a caterpillar drive. Magneto hydrodynamic propulsion. You follow?
Jack Ryan:
No.
Skip Tyler:
It's like a... a jet engine for the water. Goes in the front, gets squirted out the back. Only it has no moving parts, so it's very, very quiet.
Jack Ryan:
Like how quiet?
Skip Tyler:
It's doubtful our sonar would even pick it up. And if it did, it'd sound like... whales humping or some kind of seismic anomaly. Anything but a submarine. We messed with this a couple years ago. Couldn't make it work. They really built this? This isn't a mock-up or anything?
Jack Ryan:
She put to sea this morning.
Skip Tyler:
When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a couple of hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it until it was all over.
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