Talk:The Hunt for Red October

When does this movie take place?-Oliveira 13:36, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

The book was set in 1984. I guess the movie must be, too. -MT2008

I could swear that the movie took place in the Early or Mid 1960s. I guess i was wrong.-Oliveira 14:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Definitely not. The Red October is a Typhoon-class nuclear sub, and the first of those were commissioned by the USSR in the early-1980s. Then there's the scene at the end where an SH-60B Seahawk is used in ASW activities - the Seahawk design also dates from the late-70s/early-80s (the first were brought into service around '84-'85, so if this movie is set in 1984, their use may be a tad bit anachronistic, though not much). Not to mention that the cars, computers, phones, and other stuff seen in this film are definitely from the 80s. -MT2008

Shit. I think there is another Tom Clancy Cold War book that was turned into a movie that was set during the 1960s. I but read the plot of most of his books in Wikipedia and it seens that all of his Cold War books are set in the 1980s.-Oliveira 15:30, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Without Remorse is set during the Vietnam War. That's the only one I recall off the top of my head not set in either the present day (meaning, present day when he wrote it) or the near-future. Clancy is a technophile and a military hardware geek, so I imagine he would have trouble forcing himself to write a novel where he couldn't go into infinite detail about the latest $100 million fighters or the newest spy satellite being used by the CIA. -MT2008

Well, since he is a military geek i assume he shouln't have a problem with going into John Ross-style detail about the guns and military equipment. I mean, i consider myself a Vietnam War geek so i could do something like that. But thanks for the help.-Oliveira 16:34, 14 June 2009 (UTC)