If it ain’t got a pool, then it’s no damned good.
No worries. The Navy is ready to fight the last war.
Ignoring hypersonic missiles won’t make them go away. It might take a sunk supercarrier to get the brass out of its gender study mindset.
Finding subs even when they made some noise back in the cold war was a challenge. With very quiet battery driven systems, unless he comes up to charge on diesel, this guy is probably very much a ghost. The US does not maintain much for defense against the non-nuclear sub threat, mostly because battery/diesels traditionally don’t go blue water much. But todays battles are not blue water, they are coastal. I hope todays Navy is working on this threat, but I have doubts given the people in charge the last decade.
Paywall. What’s the go around?
The Krasnasdor is an improved Kilo class diesel-electric sub. The Russians have no qualms about selling Kilos to other countries including China and Iran.
It’s STILL a DE sub and must surface every 7-10 days, minimum for a day or two to recharge.
Dead meat when it does.
However, for the 7-10 days in the littorals, it’s damn deadly.
The US would do well to build a couple of dozen such boats for $400-$500 million each. They would patrol the Med, South China Sea, Baltic Sea and the Persian Gulf.
Our Virginia Class nukes are NOT the best boats patrolling those areas.
Behind a paywall...
We’re chasing a sub with an aircraft carrier? Or are we using the carrier’s ASW assets and the carrier is staying within it’s screen? Something doesn’t sound right there.
I'd say it's sound-absorbing, so that it doesn't create an echo in the first place. But perhaps that's just me.
While the Russians were making their military better, we were giving away Ranger tabs to females, putting females in the most compromising situations with men, parading male ROTC cadets in high heals, cutting the size of our forces, strangling our military budgets with sequester, welcoming homosexuals and cross dressers and penalizing Christians in our own military. Now our ships run into the largest tankers on the seas, we can’t track their quiet subs, and Donald Trump trumpets that we have the strongest military in the world. BS. Our military is rotten to the core from social experiments and lack of funding. And little to nothing has changed.
It’s a diesel.
Just follow the oil slick.