We attack Nato on tuesday with our new subs

[AntEater]

The US Navy always seems to have had a problem with any non soviet diesel build after WW2.
"Carrier sinking" stories are known from Germany (U-24), the Netherlands (Dolfijn, I think) and Norway (HNMS Ula), at least.
Apparently U-24 also "sank" a 688 during the carribean cruise in 1998.
On a german navy forum (you've got to be ex navy to post there) some sonar operator told how he tracked the 688 while a US navy officer beside him "started to sweat" as they got a firing solution on the 688 without being noticed.

[Oberon]

Didn't a US sub manage to fire a flare onto the flight deck of a carrier once in one of these ASW exercises?

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Didn't a US sub manage to fire a flare onto the flight deck of a carrier once in one of these ASW exercises?

That would be a great one-way radio exchange

USS Lincoln - Alright, Asheville, we give up. Where are you

*Flare*

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

That would be a great one-way radio exchange

USS Lincoln - Alright, Asheville, we give up. Where are you

*Flare*

Kinda like what the USS Nautlus did once, put four exersize fish in to four ships about 15 mins before the end of the exersize (the last one under the flag ship) then surfaced 500 yards abeam and signaled "How you like them apples charlie?"

I wonder if our Master of Defense Bill was aboard her for that one? :hmm:

[Chock]

This sort of thing has been happening since before WW1:

In 1904, an A Class submarine commanded by Reginald Bacon did exactly this. Umpires of a naval exercise that year determined that Bacon's 1st Flotilla had sunk two battleships (they claimed they had sunk more). CIC of the Home Fleet, Sir Arthur Kynvet Wilson (who had been a real enemy of submarine development) was naturally infuriated by this.

When, during the exercise, a submarine signalled his ship with 'Respectfully submit have torpedoed you. Respectfully submit you are sunk. Respectfully submit you are out of the exercise.' apparently Kynvet Wilson grabbed the semaphore flags from his signaller and sent 'You be damned' with them personally.

Chock

[Lafferty]

lol that funny.

[bookworm_020]

Originally Posted by Chock

This sort of thing has been happening since before WW1:

In 1904, an A Class submarine commanded by Reginald Bacon did exactly this. Umpires of a naval exercise that year determined that Bacon's 1st Flotilla had sunk two battleships (they claimed they had sunk more). CIC of the Home Fleet, Sir Arthur Kynvet Wilson (who had been a real enemy of submarine development) was naturally infuriated by this.

When, during the exercise, a submarine signalled his ship with 'Respectfully submit have torpedoed you. Respectfully submit you are sunk. Respectfully submit you are out of the exercise.' apparently Kynvet Wilson grabbed the semaphore flags from his signaller and sent 'You be damned' with them personally.

Chock

Not a bad effot considering the crews had very little experience with the craft at this point in time, almost no training in how to do a setup of torpedo angles and attack methods! For a couple of sub commanders it was their first time out!

[Von Tonner]

Can you believe it?!!! One sub sank the entire force - truly a remarkable achievement.

"A lone South African submarine left some Nato commanders with red faces on Tuesday as it "sank" all the ships of the Nato Maritime Group engaged in exercises with the South African Navy off the Cape coast."



Read all about it here.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx...5&referrer=RSS