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Originally Posted by Betonov
OK, here's my idea.
A commerce raider, disquised as a civilian cargo ship starts following a target, either radar, satelite, anything.
Plots her course and intercepts about 20* miles infront of the target
Releases a drone sub or a ROV. The drone waits under the surface while the raider moves a little out of sight.
When the target gets close the drone creeps up to it, grabs hold of the hull and releases an electro-magnetic shock, frying all electronics on board, leaving the ship without power and communication.
Raider intercepts and boards
* just a random number, for the sake of argument
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Cool idea, but again, I think it'll only be a matter of time before the enemy figures out what's going on.
Although this reminds me of another reason why SSKs aren't really suited: raiding in littoral/narrow waters is probably much better accomplished by 'smart' mobile mines. Which can be laid by practically anything, including a disguised merchant of course. But that merchant needs to be out of there before those things activate, or else it's again pretty likely the enemy will quickly catch on.