US carriers in danger!

Skybird · 01-08-13, 08:26 AM

Beware of the Huns coming.

According to very few German media reports, U32 will set sail for rendezvous with the USN off the US coast to participate in naval exercises from March on. It will cross the Atlantic with just one stop at the Azores.

The Americans want to see if they now can defend their carrier groups against submarines of the latest generation now. The Germans are focussed on testing a brandnew passive sonarsystem of theirs, and to try new tactics.

Captain and crew expect to be completely invisible for every passive sonar the US can mount against them, they say. They are eager to repeat the success of U24 which in 2001 during excercise JTFEX 01-2 successfully penetrated USN Enteprise's ASW screen and fired green smoke next to the carriers hull, "at collision proximity", as the German article says.

IMO, such exercises are of vital interest for the US, for the Americna side ven more than the German, since in the past the USN has experienced alarming weaknesses against modern submarines of new designs, with the Swedish Gotland having run circles at will around USN units for over one year when the boat was stationed in America by US request for longer practicing opportunity. With the Navy having rang alarm bells last year over a substantial loss of ASW in American naval forces, due to loss of air- and sea-stationed ASW power, and modern submarine technology spreading wild and turning Chinese and Russian boats more and more into dangerous opponents again, and European countries selling their equipment into the Middle East, the loss of capability in ASW indeed is a worrying perspective for the US, considering its new global centre of gravity is in the Western pacific.

The exercising with the German boat will not be an encouraging experience for the USN, I strongly assume - everything else would be a very big surprise. The 212 is at least as undetectable (passively) as the Gotlands are, and also almost undetectable for magnetic sensors. Maximum time for staying underwater is rumoured to be minimum 18 days.

Don't ask me, they gave no pieces on this new German sonar, if you wanted to ask for curiosity. Only that it is passive.

And this boat the Germans want to sell to - Egypt.

01-08-13, 08:26 AM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,616 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	US carriers in danger! Beware of the Huns coming. According to very few German media reports, U32 will set sail for rendezvous with the USN off the US coast to participate in naval exercises from March on. It will cross the Atlantic with just one stop at the Azores. The Americans want to see if they now can defend their carrier groups against submarines of the latest generation now. The Germans are focussed on testing a brandnew passive sonarsystem of theirs, and to try new tactics. Captain and crew expect to be completely invisible for every passive sonar the US can mount against them, they say. They are eager to repeat the success of U24 which in 2001 during excercise JTFEX 01-2 successfully penetrated USN Enteprise's ASW screen and fired green smoke next to the carriers hull, "at collision proximity", as the German article says. IMO, such exercises are of vital interest for the US, for the Americna side ven more than the German, since in the past the USN has experienced alarming weaknesses against modern submarines of new designs, with the Swedish Gotland having run circles at will around USN units for over one year when the boat was stationed in America by US request for longer practicing opportunity. With the Navy having rang alarm bells last year over a substantial loss of ASW in American naval forces, due to loss of air- and sea-stationed ASW power, and modern submarine technology spreading wild and turning Chinese and Russian boats more and more into dangerous opponents again, and European countries selling their equipment into the Middle East, the loss of capability in ASW indeed is a worrying perspective for the US, considering its new global centre of gravity is in the Western pacific. The exercising with the German boat will not be an encouraging experience for the USN, I strongly assume - everything else would be a very big surprise. The 212 is at least as undetectable (passively) as the Gotlands are, and also almost undetectable for magnetic sensors. Maximum time for staying underwater is rumoured to be minimum 18 days. Don't ask me, they gave no pieces on this new German sonar, if you wanted to ask for curiosity. Only that it is passive. And this boat the Germans want to sell to - Egypt. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.