No matter how many times this article is recycled, it’s still bullshit.
I was just wondering. With the current technology available, would it be able to have a submarine that is nuclear powered that is unmanned, drone-like that you could basically take out, put on the bottom and just wait for activation and/or just put it in a slow float or “idle” to keep machinery working but keeping it slow and low enough to avoid sonar?
Just laying out their and waiting for activation. No crew, no worries about supply and just lurking. You could make it come up if you wanted to “check” it, but otherwise just a gun pointed at our heads.
I’m not educated in the maritime engineering or actual operations of a sub is why I ask.
Amen to that.
The Russians have commissioned one of their “new” submarines, the Yassen, in the last 12 years. They may be about to get the second one out.
They are decent boats.
But they are not as good as the Virginia class that the US is building,.
And...in the same time, the US Navy has now commissioned 12 of the new (and better) Virginia Class SSNs, launched two more, and has four more under construction, with ten more after that already funded.
IOW, there will be 18 Virginia’s prowling the sea about the same time the Russians commission their 2nd Yassen.
And probably before they commission their 3rd, there will be over two dozen Virginia class.
The Russians are capable of building some decent equipment...but it is usually brute force, has electronics that are problematic, and right now, they simply do not have the money to build very many of anything or sustain it on a global scale.
Now, could these individual Russian units dangerous? Yes, they could be...but they would be quickly hunted down and overwhelmed by the better, and much more numerous US submarines and ASW surface warships and aircraft.