Russian submarine Tomsk in Vilyuchinsk. Wikimedia Commons/Sergey Konovalov/Mil.ru
Sebastien Roblin, National Interest: This Russian Nuclear Submarine Has a Very Special Mission: Kill American Aircraft Carriers
Russia’s enormous Oscar-class nuclear attack submarines, known as the Project 949A, were designed during the Cold War with a specific mission in mind: to go hunting for American aircraft carriers, the pride of American naval power.
Because each U.S. flattop is protected by its own little fleet of escorting warships—many of them specialized in antisubmarine warfare—the Oscar’s primary game plane isn’t to creep up close for a torpedo attack.
Instead, it’s designed to lob enormous anti-shipping cruise missiles (ASCMs) from hundreds of miles away.
Cruise-missile submarines, designated SSGs and SSGNs by the U.S. Navy, were not a new concept. The earliest missile subs were adapted from more conventional submarines in the 1950s, and the Soviet Echo class, commissioned in 1961, were the first ones designed to employ cruise missiles as their primary armament.
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WNU Editor: This is one big sub.
3 comments:
1) You can see the sub from space when it is under water.
2) Any old merchant ship could tell you that the sub is there. No, really.
3) Despite Greenpeace harassment a counter to the torpedo threat was found. Green Peace did their part. they ran up development cost.
1) nope
2) "Some sources speculate that the acoustic performance of the Oscar II class is superior to early Akula-class submarine but inferior to the Akula II as well as subsequent (4. generation) designs.[10] It also has a larger fin, and a seven-bladed propeller instead of a four-bladed one.[11]"
3) cruise missiles not torpedo's,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-700_Granit
1) You can
2) Maybe you need something besides book learning. The web is great, but ...
3) A carrier is part of a package that includes AAW
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