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| U.S. aircraft carrier and part of its escort "sunk" by French submarine during drills off Florida |
| 2015-03-06 |
| If you thought aircraft carriers were invincible you were wrong. On Mar. 4, the French Ministry of Defense released some interesting details, about the activity conducted by one of its nuclear-powered attack submarine (SNA) in the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. According to French MoD website (that is no longer online, even if you can still find a cached version of the article titled "Le SNA Saphir en entraĂŽnement avec l'US Navy au large de la Floride"), the Saphir submarine has recently taken part in a major exercise with the U.S. Navy off Florida. |
| Posted by:Hupineger Glomomp52169 |
| #5 Sounds like an ally sub switching sides in the middle of an operation. Sounds difficult, especially if only the sub and the enemy knew. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-03-06 16:31 |
| #4 Considering USN ASW has also deteriorated over the past twenty years, it's not surprising. To a submariner, there are two kinds of vessels: submarines and targets. You have to come to the surface sometime, bubblehead... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-03-06 13:57 |
| #3 To a submariner, there are two kinds of vessels: submarines and targets. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-03-06 09:36 |
| #2 Regular occurrence with ASW games. We subs were forced to do some things (make noise) so the skimmers could say they found us. Otherwise, the first time the surface units would know a sub was in their area would be when ships blow up. Of course that also goes for subs that aren't up to snuff also. We would sneak up on "the other side" regularly. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2015-03-06 08:56 |
| #1 This was a regular feature of US Navy wargames in the 70's thru 90's timeframe. It was never publicized because, basically, don't PO the Admiral. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-03-06 07:31 |