The North Carolina (SSN 777) - currently under construction - is going to be the 1st submarine to have true 21st century on-board communications, including a fiber optic Intranet; large digital screens placed throughout the ship that show what is being viewed through the periscope, and even a server room.

Fig: Greetings to all who come aboard the North Carolina.

Fig: Schlauder uses the joystick that controls the periscope's direction and other criteria. With that joystick, anyone can rotate the periscope 360 degrees, tilt the view up or down, and zoom in so that details at a mile away are easily discernible.

Fig: Servers in the North Carolina's computer room. All the digital data on board the submarine flows through these servers.

Fig: In the CO's quarters, the bed pulls down from the wall.


Totally offense class war machine, right?