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Originally Posted by Fire_Spy
As with all Documentaries about modern weapons half of what they show is either incorrect or absolute fantasy.  |
I wouldn't go that far. One of the things the Navy is quite keen about is that the taxpayer has a vested interest in what their dollars go towards. The thing is, they often reflect a lot about the interests of the producer, as well as what the Navy feels comfortable making public. My theory is that the fewer submarines that are actually being built, the more likely the Navy is to make public EVERYTHING they can do with a submarine in gorey detail because they want the public to lobby Congress for them. Like the GWOT thing, yeah submarines can contribute some ISR and SOF sorts of things to the GWOT, but really they're sort of a small part of that. None the less, the Navy still wants money for submarines, so if they think it will get some members of Congress to shovel more money their way, they emphasize their contribution to it.
Things you should never expect them to reveal include things like current tactics or specific system parameters. The other things you won't see them reveal is failings, in part because they never want any other nations to be aware of what the shortcomings of the Navy are, so they might exploit them. They tend to only come out in the vaguest of terms in opened sessions of Congress or occaisionally they're leaked to the Washington Times by right leaning officers at the Pentagon.