That's why I am all for the US Navy buying some Diesel/AIP submarines to free up the workload from the SSN's. The Diesel/AIP Submarines can be used for Forward deployed missions. Even for Close to home missions such as defense of CONUS and US territories. It would free up the SSN's for Strike missions and Carrier escort missions. On top …
That's why I am all for the US Navy buying some Diesel/AIP submarines to free up the workload from the SSN's. The Diesel/AIP Submarines can be used for Forward deployed missions. Even for Close to home missions such as defense of CONUS and US territories. It would free up the SSN's for Strike missions and Carrier escort missions. On top of that, the Diesel/AIP subs can be used by USSOCOM in inserting and extracting special ops teams in the littoral waters. Imagine sneaking in a special forces team in the littoral waters and extracting them in the littoral waters. On top of that Diesel/AIP Submarines can make a great adversary training platform, similar to TOP GUN school and Red flag.
Forward deployed modern AIP diesel boats akin to what our allies use will be very effective in ASUW and even ASW. Getting in and out of the mission area is the hard part. Once on station, they are hard to kill and very deadly.
having served on USS BARBEL SS580 i can say they are no replacement for a SSN, I am guessing the even the modern Diesel/AIP boats would take a few days from Japan to SCS to engage.. they do add the stealth aspect when submerged. I was a eager convert to SSNs and looked fondly at my SS580 days...
Their was an article that was written in 2010 that made the case for the US Navy to acquire a small number of SSK submarines for Forward deployed missions in the shallow waters. The Article is linked below
The Right Submarine for Lurking in the Littorals by By Milan Vego
That's why I am all for the US Navy buying some Diesel/AIP submarines to free up the workload from the SSN's. The Diesel/AIP Submarines can be used for Forward deployed missions. Even for Close to home missions such as defense of CONUS and US territories. It would free up the SSN's for Strike missions and Carrier escort missions. On top of that, the Diesel/AIP subs can be used by USSOCOM in inserting and extracting special ops teams in the littoral waters. Imagine sneaking in a special forces team in the littoral waters and extracting them in the littoral waters. On top of that Diesel/AIP Submarines can make a great adversary training platform, similar to TOP GUN school and Red flag.
Forward deployed modern AIP diesel boats akin to what our allies use will be very effective in ASUW and even ASW. Getting in and out of the mission area is the hard part. Once on station, they are hard to kill and very deadly.
having served on USS BARBEL SS580 i can say they are no replacement for a SSN, I am guessing the even the modern Diesel/AIP boats would take a few days from Japan to SCS to engage.. they do add the stealth aspect when submerged. I was a eager convert to SSNs and looked fondly at my SS580 days...
Their was an article that was written in 2010 that made the case for the US Navy to acquire a small number of SSK submarines for Forward deployed missions in the shallow waters. The Article is linked below
The Right Submarine for Lurking in the Littorals by By Milan Vego
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2010/june/right-submarine-lurking-littorals