Wanna feel your family is protected and safe while driving down the freeway?
- Buy a Volvo.
Wanna secure the survival of your country?
- Contact SAAB.
The Vikings - We know war!
Local news station talks about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khaa3y0i87s
” and an electronic mast that surfaces intermittently makes an even less obvious track than a direct-view periscope that has to stay up to function. “
Even back in the 70’s we did not leave the masts up. A ‘quick peek’ and then right back down.
‘Tomorrow’s Stealthy Subs Could Sink America’s Navy’
Of course they could. So could global cooling/warming if our subs ran into an ice berg.
This is such twaddle.
They think we’re idiots, those who write this tripe.
Drone subs.
When the Muslims fully take over Sweden from the self-loathing Swedes, they’ll inherit some nice technology.
Link is not a link.
There won’t be a navy by the time Obama gets done with the military
By 2020 Sweden will be a Muslim state.
1. Carrier fleet is now down to 11.
2. S-3B Viking (dedicated carrier based sub hunter) has been retired without replacement.
3. MH-60R Seahawk helicopter is supposed to fill in for ASW missions.
4. DD-963 dedicated ASW destroyers are retired without replacement.
5. FFG-7 frigates are going away without replacement.
6. Early boats of the SSN-688 Los Angeles class are being retired and fewer replacements of the Seawolf class and Virginia class aren't replacing the boats retiring or headed for service life extension programs.
7. The P-3C Orion ASW fleet is shrinking and the replacement P-8A Poseidon (and its BAMS drone) won't come close to replacing the numbers of aircraft retired. Also, P-8A and BAMS drone numbers have been scaled back.
Last but not least, the USN ran a year long series of ASW tests out of San Diego against the Swedish Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) submarine HMS Gotland. The tests lasted from March 2005 through July 2007. Test results remain classified, but the USN did not do well against the advanced diesel-electric boat.