The SINS maintained the ship’s position at all times through a system of gyroscopes, accelerometers, and velocity meters. The SINS (Ship's Inertial Navigation System) was in the Navigation Center of the ship, as was all the navigation equipment.
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"We used the Transit satellites, Loran C, bottom-contour navigation and celestial navigation fixes to update the Ship's Inertial Navigation Systems (the SINS)." What was the SINS? So the Nav Center was the heart of the ship and manned 24/7 by specially trained submarine sailors and electronics specialists." What technologies do you use to navigate? "The output of the navigation center was to provide the ship’s position and attitude (latitude, longitude, ship’s velocity, roll and pitch) to the missile control system for input into the Polaris missiles continuously. In a submarine that means you run the ship." What was the purpose of the Nav Center? And then occasionally I stood watch, as the officer of the deck. Any time we went to periscope depth, I was in the Nav Center (Navigation Center) or the Control Room monitoring navigational procedures. We had to know where the ship was at all times because you never knew when you might get orders to launch. If, God forbid, we had to launch nuclear missiles against the Soviet Pac, the Polaris missiles had to know where they were starting from to reach targets accurately. "I was responsible for the accurate location of the ship at sea at all times. Boats had 2 crews, "Blue" crew and "Gold" crew, and we would rotate every 3 months back to home port of Submarine Base Groton, Connecticut, for training and crew turnover (roughly 1/3 of crew)." What did you do? Polk (SSBN 645) as part of the blue crew. I took part in 3 deterrent patrols (with nuclear missiles for protecting the United States from the Soviet Union). "I was a navigator on a ballistic missile submarine during the Cold War, from 1965 to 1968.
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