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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I know the lake is deep but how do they get the subs in and out? It's landlocked!
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very large truck
http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08357.htm
LSV (Large Scale Vehicle): Ordered 12 Feb 1999, designed and built by an industry team from Newport News Shipbuilding and General Dynamics/Electric Boat Company under contract from Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). Christened as Cutthroat (LSV 2), on November 15, 2000 and commisioned on Feb 2001. The Cutthroat is operated by the Acoustic Research Detachment (ARD) for the Naval Sea Systems Command (SEA 92R). Cutthroat is a 0.294-scale model of the Virginia (SSN-774) that will operate as an unmanned, autonomous submarine test vehicle for evaluating new technologies.Cutthroat will operate on Lake Pend Oreille at the Acoustic Research Detachment in Bayview, Idaho, the Navy's laboratory for demonstrating submarine stealth technology. The facility is operated by the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Carderock Division.
http://www.dt.navy.mil/about_us/divi...etachment.html
Lake Pend Oreille provides a deep (1150 ft), quiet body of water where a free-field ocean-like environment is available without the attendant problems and costs of open ocean operations.
13th deepest lake in the world:
http://www.nps.gov/archive/crla/brochures/deeplakes.htm
I think there is a nuclear silo(s) near Sandpoint too. The signs say they will shoot to kill if you try to climb the fences.