SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - View Single Post - We attack Nato on tuesday with our new subs

Von Tonner · 09-05-07, 08:01 AM

Here is a nice pic of the group with Table Mountain as a backdrop

http://www.flightzone.co.za/media/ph...nato_group.jpg

http://navy.org.za/articles/2007/09/...rfare-exercise

From the article:

"Another sign of the increasing importance of a security operation in African waters comes from the US Navy, which plans from 2008 to have a "big-deck" presence in the Gulf of Guinea.
"My aspiration is to have a ship there 365 days a year," said Admiral Harry Ulrich, commander of US Naval Forces Europe and Africa.
The South African Navy has long held the position that its new fleet would be used for anti-piracy and anti-poaching operations.
The training with Nato is its first big joint operation to discover how this might be carried out."

Extract from above article which goes some way in explaining the interest of Nato and in particlular the USA interest. By "big-deck" I am presuming US Admiral Ulrich is alluding to a carrier. Would love to see these little subs go up against one of those. Even if they got through the defense I doubt they have the fire-power to take one out though.

09-05-07, 08:01 AM	#10
Von Tonner Seasoned Skipper Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Africa Posts: 711 Downloads: 44 Uploads: 0	Here is a nice pic of the group with Table Mountain as a backdrop http://www.flightzone.co.za/media/ph...nato_group.jpg http://navy.org.za/articles/2007/09/...rfare-exercise From the article: "Another sign of the increasing importance of a security operation in African waters comes from the US Navy, which plans from 2008 to have a "big-deck" presence in the Gulf of Guinea. "My aspiration is to have a ship there 365 days a year," said Admiral Harry Ulrich, commander of US Naval Forces Europe and Africa. The South African Navy has long held the position that its new fleet would be used for anti-piracy and anti-poaching operations. The training with Nato is its first big joint operation to discover how this might be carried out." Extract from above article which goes some way in explaining the interest of Nato and in particlular the USA interest. By "big-deck" I am presuming US Admiral Ulrich is alluding to a carrier. Would love to see these little subs go up against one of those. Even if they got through the defense I doubt they have the fire-power to take one out though.