“Somehow, the French submarine must have been able to slip between the defensive sensor patchwork of patrol aircraft, helicopters, warships and submarines to line up a shot on the $13 billion monstrosity. “
I am calling BS. No one would call this a monstrosity unless there was a political motive here.
Bump. Stupid is kinda letting his slip show, isn't he? His KGB case officer will want to sharpen up the guy's tools a little bit.
OTOH, these ASW exercises have always been tough for the good guys to win, going back 45 years..... Read Blind Man's Bluff for a good 90's-era account of the secret submarine cold-war operations since World War II. Reading the appendices, it turns out I rode the Pargo (SSN 650) smack in between back-to-back "Ivy Bells" missions to the Barents. I knew those guys were good, but I didn't know they were also spookland heroes.