Israel's Submarine Fleet

Tchocky · 09-12-11, 01:56 PM

And the next day, Commander Benjamin Adnam was nowhere to be found..

Oberon · 09-12-11, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Tchocky

And the next day, Commander Benjamin Adnam was nowhere to be found..

And neither was the Thomas Jefferson...

TLAM Strike · 09-12-11, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

And neither was the Thomas Jefferson...

or HMS Unseen.

JSLTIGER · 09-12-11, 04:07 PM

Can't remember the last time that I read that book.

Penguin · 09-13-11, 03:58 PM

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Upon graduation, he was appointed as commander of a missile boat that specializes in anti-submarine warfare (the Navy ensures that future sub commanders serve on such boats first, as there is no better way to learn how they behave when confronting a submarine.)

This makes pretty much sense.
How do other navies handle that? An ASW education is certainly standard, but do others also require their commanders to learn to hunt subs on an ASW vessel before they are allowed to command a sub?

Imagine this for our hobby:
Silent Hunter system requirements:
demonstrable experience of at least 200 hours of Destroyer Command

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