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Originally Posted by Bertgang
I'm fascinated by submarines, as most of people here, but sometimes I think they are becoming outdated as cavalry charges.
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Well with fewer over all merchants in the oceans around the world each carrying more goods the submarine becomes just that much more powerful a weapon of a guerre de course. Next time some dictatorship like Lybia and Iran back in the 80s tries to blockade a important ocean choke point they might just have a few diesel boats in there navy. They quickly forget that the submarine was made to give the underdog a chance against the big powerful navy, John P. Holland (for the Irish) made his boat to fight the Royal Navy, Germany did too... twice, Japan built theres to defeat the US Navy as did the Soviets- see a pattern here?