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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
An Australian diesel powered sub, all by itself managed to sneak in, sink a US carrier and sneak out again completely undetected (besides the big BOOM and the umpires declaring the carrier sunk) in a wargame in the early 90's.
I think a number of the escort vessels were also "sunk".
Makes you wonder how the US can claim to be so superior and unbeatable doesn't it?
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That's not so surprising from what I read on diesel power subs (also I'm no specialist: I'll ask my neighbor's son in two years when he will be operating on our nuclear submarines but that's 2 years to wait
). According to most reports, diesel subs are supposed to be much quieter and hard to detect that the nuclears ones (that might have been matched by the seawolf, however).
From what I read, the old UK Oberon-class had been the quietest of all.