The Kilos are coated, but old...and the Iranians are probably caoting them with something as similar as they can manufacture on these 500 ton mini-subs.
But it will be to no avail. I have no doubts that we constantly, through multiple avenues, keep track of every Iranian sub.
This President will not do it, bit we need a CIC who would have all their Kilos and the two or three modern mini-subs they have all just blow up on the same day.
The indicate we don’t know what happened, and have Israel say the same. Talk about how difficult and dangerous sub technology is...we’ve lost a few ourselves so it is not out of the ordinary. Difficult technologies sort of like their nuclear program is difificult and also may be prone to such “accidents.”
Creepy. But thoughtful,,, and accurate.
There were always certain unambiguous signs that the Soviets would have given a few days prior to initiating hostilities (WW3). One of them would have been to sortie vast portion their submarine fleet so that they would not be bombed while laying dockside. This is one reason that naval maneuvers were always announced and watched by all navies.
I expect that our aircraft carriers will depart the area until such time as their subs, with their limited endurance, return to base to get plastered by the USAF. Then the carriers will return in a big way. Until that time the USN will keep the carriers at a distance, providing air cover for the surface combatant vessels patrolling the strait. I also expect that our SSN’s will pick off a few using methods not discussed in public forums such as this.
Over the course of the following weeks and months, as each sub returned to base and reported on their missions, the Russians slowly came to the realization that every one of their subs were being successfully tracked.