Folks and experts,
If we look at the command control room, the bulkheads are shaped in this way on the main level:
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This makes sense to me, if a leak or a collision with the sail was happening, the room could be flooded while still protecting the forward and rearward sections of the submarine (not that it would matter anyway). It is also more in line with how the pressure hull was created: two sausages linked by the command room.
If we look at the ballast level (lower level), the bulkheads are shaped in this direction, according to the blue-prints:
___( Main Ballast )____
That arrangement does not make sense to me for the following reasons:
1 - It is a brutal change in the structure of the bulkheads, making them less solid and resilient.
2 - It seems to be contradicting some of the pictures I have seen of the command module being built at shipyards.
3 - Since the ballast can and will be submitted to higher pressure than the Fuel/MO tanks located on either sides, it would make sense to place the concavity of the bulkheads in the other direction to protect the fuel tanks and batteries compartments.
I would like the opinion of the experts on this topic and would like to understand why the blue-prints are presented the way they are. What am I not getting?
Thanks in advance.
Yves
(Sorry, I could not post pictures or drawings to help with this question).
