Russians chase of US sub.

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by Betonov

A Swedish Gotland sub sneaked inside a carrier group during exercises and took a photo of the USS Ronald Reagan and sneaked away.

Unfortunately I can only find a wiki article.



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While these tidbits tend to make for good PR, they don't really mean anything as far as a Gotland's noise level compared to a Virginia...

In an exercise, there are training objectives to be met, and carrier strike groups aren't always in an ASW posture, not that skimmer sonar operators are all that great anyway... Besides, if the USN just killed everyone in wargames there wouldn't be much point to holding them, would there?

There's also not much point in comparing a Gotland to a flight 1 688 like USS Houston, since the old 688s are probably the loudest submarines in the fleet...

Modern diesels are quiet, no doubt about it, and they're certainly a pain to track, but just because they get a kill in an exercise doesn't mean they'd out-sneak a cutting edge design like a VA.