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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
I think the UUVs should have better range and speed. More like the LMRS.
Something you can really send to scout ahead. Thats what UUVs have been billed as.
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It's hard to go fast and use a sidescan sonar. I'm not clear that the LMRS goes very fast at all. It's also sort of unclear exactly what they're supposed to be scouting ahead of.
My suspicion is that the actual idea is probably to use the speed of the SSN to get the LMRS someplace near a beach and ahead of the fleet, where the SSN will stop. While it's there they'll use the LMRS to scout out the mines convertly while something like an ESG approaches the hostile coast.
So... it's scouting ahead but not ahead of the SSN, so much as ahead of the fleet.