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Contents 1 Discussion 1.1 Erroneous capitalization removed 1.2 Question about sub 1.3 not a defector... 1.4 this seems to be a summary of the movie 1.5 The real Red October? 1.6 Sablin Mutiny revert war 1.7 Theme 1.8 this was the best movie and the best book 1.9 Prescient? 1.10 disgusting 1.11 Book vs. Movie

[edit] Discussion

[edit] Erroneous capitalization removed

I moved the article from "The Hunt For Red October" to "The Hunt for Red October" (lower-case "for"), since that is the correct title as listed even in IMDb. --Wernher 12:25, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Question about sub

I've misplaced my copy of the book, and will check later, but maybe someone else will do it first: I seem to recall that it was only in the film version that the sub carried an MHD drive; the book originally described it just as a hydrojet drive with some sort of sophisticated sound baffling. Can someone doublecheck me on this? -FZ 05:14, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

You are correct- Watsonladd 16:47, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

Right. I added it from Soviet submarine Red October --84.190.43.39 17:49, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] not a defector...

Valery Sablin was not defecting to the west! he was a commited communist.

This Is true. Until the end of the Cold War, western intelligence believed the crew was going to defect. However, the aim of the Red October was not to defect to the west, but to provoke a political revolution. “ Why am I doing this? The love of life. I mean not in the sense of the a comfortable bourgeois, but a bright truthful life which inspires a genuine joy in all honest people. I am convinced that in our nation, just as 58 years ago in 1917, a revolutionary consciousness will alight and we will achieve communism in our society.” -Valery Sablin-

[edit] this seems to be a summary of the movie

It's been a while since I've read the book, but this seems to be a summary of the movie, not the book... Rast 12:49, May 8, 2005 (UTC)

Based on my memory of the book, I would say that the summary provided adequately describes both the book and the movie. 69.72.78.56 07:40, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

hi thanks i was having questions and myself wanted to research on the topic. thanks for clearing it up for me

Another thing is that the Konovolov was killed in the book by ramming; in the movie, the sub's end makes use of the fact that the K's captain removes the short-interval arming interlocks from his torpedos, and a shot taken at the RO is directed back towards the K by Ramius' superior sub handling. "You killed us, you arrogant ass!!" --Skorekeep 04:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The real Red October?

The article refers to the "real Red October" being decommissioned in 2005, but the wiki article on Red October says no real ship had that name. The external news link no longer works. -- Coneslayer 22:22, 2005 May 11 (UTC)

Was there ever a real Red October, or not? Rast 09:43, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

No there wasn't. I don't know where they got that one from. Its possible that they could be referring to the Typhoon-class itself, as the Russians are planning on retiring them all.

the summary provides adequate info only about the book the movie was not made on the bbok not even a single part of it.

[edit] Sablin Mutiny revert war

The following text has been added and removed repeatedly as part of a revert war on July 22 and 23.

At the end of the Cold War, it was learned the crews intention was not to defect, but to attempt to lead a workers and soldiers revolution against the Soviet bureaucracy.

Please cite sources, and lets work this out here so the reverts can stop in the article. - Chairboy 17:25, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

If this is controversial, then it's only fair that the other theory for the defection be removed as well. Bee Hive 18:04, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi Bee Hive, the sentence you removed does not suggest that he was defecting, it says that at the time, the west believed he was defecting. According to some accounts, this was because of KGB disinformation, but that doesn't change the fact that the west believed it. - Chairboy 18:17, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

the sumbarine in question here was the first russian sumbarine ever built it was valued by many of people in the soviet union it was larger than the regular typhoon class and also that there was a sumbarine like this built in reality.

Oddly enough, I saw Tom Clancy speak at either Utica College or Hamilton College (I don't recall which) in 1989 or so (he autographed my copy of "Clear and Present Danger") - at the time, when he discussed THfRO, he said he had read a newspaper article about the sinking of a Soviet submarine off the coast of North America as the inspiration for the novel. However, a quick glance through the wikipedia entries for lost Soviet subs near the time of the publication of the novel yields only K-219, which sank in 1986 (after the novel was published). K-19, of course, encountered its unfortunate circumstances off the coast of Greenland, closer to the "Labrador coast" than Bermuda, to be sure, but in 1961, which also didn't seem right, though at least it was before the publication of the novel. At any rate, I've not been able to locate transcripts of this speech, nor have I been able to find any other substantiating quotes or comments from Clancy himself on this matter; all of the Internet-available stories have referenced the Sablin Mutiny. blackba 29 September 2006

Doubtful Clancy's fudging his storyline, but there is still a momentous amount of files still classified from WW2 on up to present day. It wouldn't surprise me at all if an event like the sinking of a Soviet submarine would be buried forever and not revealed. Shadowrun 04:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Theme

it was crazy

[edit] this was the best movie and the best book

Bold textthis is a good movie and the book it sadned me that they did not include many things in the movie. like the meetng with the president that wasn't even in the movie. but the song abou the nuclear scam by basil poderious was really good i watched the movie five times already and i have finished reading the book 10 times over and through i gave a copy of this book to my father who was in the navy he reaaly liked it because he was more familiar with the terms used in the book. this book was a extremley good piece of work.

I watched the movie and tried to read the book...OMG, what a silly, propagandistic crap!Sea diver 09:39, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Talk pages are not meant for discussion of the actual topic, only for discussion of the topic's article. Thank you. // 3R1C 14:58, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

See the name of this particular unit : this is a good movie and the book.Sea diver 07:21, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't matter if you make a section in a talk page about the "goodness" of the book or the movie. An articles talk page exists to discuss how to better an article, not to discuss how one form of the story is better than the other // 3R1C 02:53, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prescient?

Some of the technical details were prescient. For example, the Ada programming language is used to implement a computational fluid dynamics model on a Cray-2 supercomputer. Cray Ada Version 1.0 actually became available in 1988

I don't think there's much prescience involved in giving the character the use of a (then) non-existant on the platform computer language. Furthermore, the non-existent language was also the wrong one. No sane researcher at the time (or probably now) would be running a CFD code written in anything other than FORTRAN. FORTRAN, then and now is optimised for numerical computation, ADA is skewed towards correctness, recoverability and robustness. The intersecting set of the design aims of FORTRAN and Ada is vanishingly small...

[edit] disgusting

Connery ruins the whole film in a scene by eating loudly and talking.

[edit] Book vs. Movie

The plot summary refers to the difference in the description of the Red October's caterpiller drive in the book and movie. I believe that the point about the movie should be taken out. There is a seperate page for the film, and they should not be referenced in a different article except to note that a film was created. Thank You!-Hairchrm 21:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)