Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Its the 21st Century - everybody, especially the Navy and the contractors, publish all sorts of stuff that used to be considered "secret". Over 15 years ago a senior USMC officer lectured some of us and he said that anything on a computer would or could be public knowledge with 18 months. I reckon he was very far-sighted.
I can't imagine that the Russians and the Chinese don't have a pretty good set of blueprints and the Operating Manual (draft) of the PWR3 in hand already.
Natural circulation isn't new. First used with S5G on USS Narwhal in the 60s.
I think you'd be surprised as to just how hard it is to get hold of
actual classified info for submarines, as opposed to "stuff on t'interweb"