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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 150
Message ID: 42
#42, RE: Two Questions.
Posted by Redneck on Oct-15-01 at 10:57 PM
In response to message #38
>>>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.)

All very true, although I regard those as secondary mission profiles compared to the two points I mentioned, especially since several of those missions are also fulfilled by the other types.

Redneck (although tapping an undersea cable isn't something you want to do in a missile destroyer)


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