Posted on 08/24/2016 6:58:43 AM PDT by Lower Deck
The U.S. Navy will need to develop an organic carrier-based fixed-wing anti-submarine warfare capability to counter the resurgent threat from enemy submarines.
The Navy simply does not have enough attack submarines, cruisers, destroyers or helicopters to adequately protect the its deployed forces from subsurface threats because its ASW capability has atrophied since the end of the Cold War.
“It’s a growing threat that will almost certainly influence the relevance of the carrier,” said retired U.S. Navy Capt. Jerry Hendrix, director of the Defense Strategies and Assessments Program at the Center for a New American Security. “The Navy will need a new platform to replace the retired S-3 Viking.”
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S3’s had a nickname I remember hearing. “Hoovers” because they sounded like a vacuum cleaner LOL.
I hear they were using them as cods, too...
You know what really impressed me with a “ohhhhh...” moment, was when they dropped the bombs...you would see the explosions and the “wall of “water” display, then...you heard (and felt)the metallic sound of the explosions transmitted through the water hitting the hull, then...a second or two later, you heard the booms of the explosion coming through the air over the surface of the ocean!
I had one of those “Oh yeah...so THAT’s how it works” physics moments in my head!
So true...funny, I slept right under the wires, and the only two planes I could ever hear taxing above me (I heard em all landing!) were Hawkeyes and “Hoovers”...must have been the frequencies emitted by the engines...
What do you think of using Osprey tilt-rotors as an ASW platform?
It should probably be considered. Personally, I’d never climb into the thing.
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