AIP subs leaving our navy in the dust

Konovalov · 11-03-06, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by sonar732

This is from an article three years ago when the Aussies were having wargames off Hawaii.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...222635806.html

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Officers in the exercise told The Sunday Age HMAS Sheean had held its own during two rigorous weeks of combat trials with the Los Angeles class attack sub, USS Olympia. The subs had swapped roles as hunter and prey and scored roughly equal numbers of hits.

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During its mock attacks on the Olympia and on two US destroyers, the Sheean fired 28 torpedoes. Commander Davies said "a respectable percentage" of shots Sheean fired at Olympia were hits that would have destroyed the powerful US vessel.

At the time this was welcome news having there been so much controversy back home over the problems that the Collins class had encountered.