Harry J. Kazianis, National Interest: This Could 'Sink' the U.S. Navy: Lethal Stealth Submarines
There is no force patrolling the world’s oceans more powerful than the mighty U.S. Navy. Washington’s nuclear-powered attack and ballistic submarines, aircraft carriers and surface combatants, all guided by the best trained sailors and professionals in the world, are no match when stacked up on paper one-on-one against the likes of Russia, China, Iran or any other challenger. And as history shows, going to war against Washington in a fair-fight is suicide. However, thanks to advances in modern, ultra-quiet conventional diesel-electric submarines, Washington will need to adjust its tactics if it were to tangle with any nation sporting these increasingly sophisticated weapons of war.
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WNU Editor: If this is the case .... the solution then is for the US Navy to produce these subs instead of nuclear attack submarines and aircraft carriers. Unfortunately ....I suspect that they will not.
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ReplyDeleteStarting in the '70's, more and more of the AsW tasks got farmed out to NATO allies, ( other than chasing boomers) to the point that by the late 'aughts, the USN couldn't do ASW anymore, against anything that wasn't a "boomer".