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I'll be... This this could be a caterpillar.

6 seconds sound clip from the The Hunt for Red October movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:21:39.438 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Bigger than a regular typhoon.

- What are these doors?

- You don't miss much, do you? Now, those are too big to be torpedo tubes.

- Would you launch an ICBM horizontally?

- Sure. Why would you want to?

- They're symmetrical... right down the long axis of the sub.

- How about a towed sonar array?

- Nope. Too close to the screws.

- I'll be... This this could be a caterpillar.

- A what?

- A caterpillar drive. Magneto-hydrodynamic propulsion.

- You follow?

- No.

- It's like a jet engine for the water... goes in the front, gets squirted out the back only it's got no moving parts, so it's very, very quiet.

- Like how quiet?

- It's doubtful our sonar'd even pick it up, and if it did, it'd sound like whales humping or some kind of seismic anomaly, anything but a submarine.

- We messed with this a couple of years ago. We couldn't make it work.

[...]

The Hunt for Red October Sound Clip

The Hunt for Red October

Memorable quotes and lines from The Hunt for Red October (1990 film), featuring short sound clips and sfx that you can use as ringtones or custom computer sounds.

Actors: Sean Connery (Marko Ramius), Alec Baldwin (Jack Ryan), Tim Curry (Yevgeni Petrov), Scott Glenn (Bart Mancuso), James Earl Jones (Admiral James Greer), Courtney B. Vance (Jonesy)

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