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This vehicle produced an anomalous harmonic sound that Jonesy attempted to analyze with the signal algorithmic processing system, or SAPS (“saps”). While looking at photographs of this vehicle, Skip Tyler deduced from an unusual pair of symmetric doors that it was using a tunnel drive system with multiple impellers. This vehicle was presumed destroyed after a similar-looking one called the Ethan Allen was blown up in a deception operation. An innovative pump-jet propulsion system used by this vehicle, nicknamed the (-5[1])(*) “caterpillar drive”, was reverse-engineered when it safely arrived at Norfolk base. This Typhoon-class vehicle, (10[1])captained by Marko Ramius, was designed to be almost completely invisible to (10[1])sonar. For 10 points, Jack Ryan (10[1])helped the U.S. (10[1])government retrieve what Russian (10[1])nuclear submarine? ■END■ (10[1])

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