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Subs also get food delivered from other ships.

• greedo 7y ago
  USN subs? Subs generally never want to reveal their position, and only surface when absolutely necessary.
  • culturestate 7y ago
    I'm not a submariner so I have no idea how regularly at-sea resupply happens, but the USN does maintain a small submarine tender fleet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_S._Land-class_submarine_tender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_S._Land-class_submarine_...
    • greedo 7y ago
      Yes, and they're ancient; commissioned closer to WW2 than to today. They're basic use is to head to a port, and provide services to submarines in the area. I don't believe they have any capability to provide re-supply at sea, especially munitions like torpedoes and missiles which are large, heavy, and difficult to transfer in anything less than a perfectly smooth sea state.
• dredmorbius 7y ago
  Citation requested.