Thinking Aloud About Tactics

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Originally Posted by timmyg00

Any country that would want to deliver such a decisive blow might send more than one Kilo into such a situation... sounds like a good co-op mission.

It depends on what you mean by sending more than one. Just because they sent more than one doesn't mean they'll be acting together in coordination. As I've said before, a single submarine skillfully handled can certainly sink an LHD or CVN.

You might also send out a group of submarines to fill a large area so that the strike group the submarines intend to attack is more likely to be found. If a sub finds the strike group he might send a message back to headquarters (since it's unknown if the other subs are capable of communicating, they can't send it directly to them), and then begin his attack.

I'm not sure I'd want to concentrate a group of subs in too small an area though because it means that if one detects one, one is more likely to detect all of them and at that point they all get smacked. The other thing is that it compouds the big handicap of KILOs: they're slow and can't search a big area quickly.

The other vessels, once they get the message that the strike group was sighted at a particular location at a particular time, moving at a particular speed and course might then move to attack it, if they're in range they might even fire cruise missiles at it but by that point, the initial submarine's attack is most likely over.