Sub construction mania....

AntEater · 06-19-07, 10:23 AM

Third world navies are no longer third world navies today.
A few years ago, much of the world's forces consisted of discarded US WW2 ships and subs.
Nowadays, even minor countries start buying AEGIS style surface vessels and modern submarines. Call it maritime globalization

Those asian nations have had enormous economic growth and in classic mahanistic theory they realized to maintain that ecomonic power, they have to have control of the sea lanes.
Until a few years ago, basically all submarine forces except for NATO and Warsaw pact were status symbols. I've heard a lot of horror stories from german submariners on how Indonesians or whoever handled (or better not handled) german build subs.
Nowadays, all those former 1-2 sub forces expand their fleets into a really capable threat, with the training and professionalism to go along with it.

Linton · 06-19-07, 01:31 PM

Dab that is the most interesting thing that has appeared in the ST in over a year!

06-20-07, 06:42 AM

Apparently most nations believe that Silent hunter 4 is a rather bug-free game and think it'd be fun to have there own sub fleet so they can play the game "irl" :p

06-20-07, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Rilder

Apparently most nations believe that Silent hunter 4 is a rather bug-free game and think it'd be fun to have there own sub fleet so they can play the game "irl" :p

geetrue · 06-20-07, 01:28 PM

It took two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a submarine back in 1968. Not only did we not hit anything we didn't even hear anything for the entire trip.

I was on my first FBM patrol on the USS Ethan Allen SSBN 608 (Blue), believe me it is one big ocean.

Generate an AI of how many submarines are now in comission, insert them in a world class map, like SH4, and see if they run into each other.

May happen in the waters off of Iran though ... accidents do happen when the sensors or the sonarman or the OOD don't do their job properly.

06-19-07, 10:23 AM	#1
AntEater Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 936 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Third world navies are no longer third world navies today. A few years ago, much of the world's forces consisted of discarded US WW2 ships and subs. Nowadays, even minor countries start buying AEGIS style surface vessels and modern submarines. Call it maritime globalization Those asian nations have had enormous economic growth and in classic mahanistic theory they realized to maintain that ecomonic power, they have to have control of the sea lanes. Until a few years ago, basically all submarine forces except for NATO and Warsaw pact were status symbols. I've heard a lot of horror stories from german submariners on how Indonesians or whoever handled (or better not handled) german build subs. Nowadays, all those former 1-2 sub forces expand their fleets into a really capable threat, with the training and professionalism to go along with it. __________________

06-19-07, 01:31 PM	#2
Linton Sea Lord Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,898 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Dab that is the most interesting thing that has appeared in the ST in over a year! __________________ http://lintonsview.blogspot.com/

06-20-07, 01:28 PM	#5
geetrue Cold War Boomer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Walla Walla Posts: 2,837 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	It took two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a submarine back in 1968. Not only did we not hit anything we didn't even hear anything for the entire trip. I was on my first FBM patrol on the USS Ethan Allen SSBN 608 (Blue), believe me it is one big ocean. Generate an AI of how many submarines are now in comission, insert them in a world class map, like SH4, and see if they run into each other. May happen in the waters off of Iran though ... accidents do happen when the sensors or the sonarman or the OOD don't do their job properly. __________________

06-20-07, 06:42 AM	#3
Rilder Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Apparently most nations believe that Silent hunter 4 is a rather bug-free game and think it'd be fun to have there own sub fleet so they can play the game "irl" :p