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The U.S. Navy Is Short on Submarine Hunters
War is Boring ^
| 8/24/16
| Dave Majumdar
Posted on 08/24/2016 6:58:43 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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ASW is an art. It's more than replacing the platforms, it's building up the skill sets again. That's not something done overnight.
To: Lower Deck
“organic carrier-based fixed-wing anti-submarine warfare capability”
African swallows dropping coconuts qualify?
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:00:56 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(This message has been encrypted in ROT13 twice for maximum security)
To: Lower Deck
I can tell them where all the subs are.
In the ocean!
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:02:13 AM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
To: Lower Deck
The big problem is that the US Navy retired the Lockheed S-3 Viking fleet too early. Fortunately, most of those planes now sitting in the "boneyard" are still intact, and they could be put back into service on short notice.
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:03:15 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: RayChuang88
Are you talking about P-3s?
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:05:36 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: RayChuang88
And replacing the P-3 Orion with a modified 737 was a mistake. The P-3 could shut down two engines, feather the props, and loiter in the area of a submarine for hours, flying low and slow.
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:08:23 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
To: Lower Deck
A significant part of the problem is that submarines are so much better at remaining undetected these days.
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:08:23 AM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(America, a Rule of Mob nation)
To: Gaffer
Nope. The S-3 Viking is a four-seater, twin-turbofan sub hunter that operated out of carriers. They've been retired, but the planes are mostly in flyable storage and could be reactivated again on short notice.
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:08:58 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: RayChuang88
I remember the P-3 Orions that had MAD missions. Worked comms for a unit out of NAS Rota Spain when I was in the AF at Lajes.
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:10:58 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Lower Deck
ASW capability has atrophied Should have thought of that before ditching the Lockheed Electra in favor of the 737 as its land based ASW component. The 737 may get there more quickly and comfortably, and help make its pilots more marketable for the airlines, but it lacks the long, slow loiter.
Maybe they need to roll out some blimps again, as well.
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:11:15 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: PAR35
The 737 may get there more quickly and comfortably, and help make its pilots more marketable for the airlines, but it lacks the long, slow loiter. Actually the radius of the P-8 and the P-3 aren't all that different.
To: Lower Deck
Need to dust off my flight boots and see if they make a flight suit in my current size. (Still have an old helmet complete with hydraulic oil stains)
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:22:35 AM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
To: Lower Deck
The problem is that the US is a sea-power, by geography, temperament, heritage and industry. But we squandered all of that to sort out the Middle East, drew down our naval forces all for which we have dust and ashes in some god-forsaken desert.
To: Lower Deck
P3s flew out of Moffett field in Northern California for years.
Taxpayers gave the airfield and blimp hangers to Google for nothing, other than the compensation exchanged to a corrupt politician or two somewhere.
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:29:31 AM PDT
by
caltaxed
To: Lower Deck; SunkenCiv; Nachum
Do you really think Obola’s administration (and the “people” he is promoting) really want to defeat a communist submarine force?
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:33:54 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: thoughtomator
Are you suggesting coconuts have homing capabilities?
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:34:03 AM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: AndyJackson
And now the Mil brass is squandering what is left to by hundreds of F-35s ...
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:37:29 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Lower Deck
Outsource it!
H1Bs welcome!!!
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:38:57 AM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
( Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.)
To: Gaffer
Are you talking about P-3s? P-3s are fixed-wing, land-based sub hunters (though I thought these were being retired and replaced with a newer model.)
S-3s are folding-wing, carrier-based ASW aircraft.
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:47:18 AM PDT
by
Lou L
(Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
To: Lou L
I understand that, but you have to realize that P-3s had better MAD booms and had the opportunity to “map” predetermined areas to plot out a map of anomalies under quiet times, very handy in comparing new data to old.
I’d think the A/C versions were counting on less sophisticated detection myself. Just a dumbass’s opinion - two cents and all that.
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posted on
08/24/2016 7:50:46 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
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