>>I guess then that the use of submarines is to destroy enemy
>>carriers...
>
>Their purpose is Not to be Seen. They can be used to attack other
>ships or, more spectacularly, to launch missile attacks upon ground
>targets.

Or deliver commandos, or rescue downed airmen, or monitor a surface fleet's radio communications, or track test missiles, or locate things on the ocean bottom, or tap undersea communications cables...

(For those of you who don't make a hobby of reading about submarines, all of these things are uses to which subs have actually been put, not theoretical situations.)

--G.
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