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There was a famous exercise in which a Dutch submarine managed to sink over half a carrier group in an exercise (https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/dutch-submarine-
by WJW 5y ago
There was a famous exercise in which a Dutch submarine managed to sink over half a carrier group in an exercise (https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/dutch-submarine-sinks-half-of-us-navy-ctf-in-1990-and-more.142292/ https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/dutch-submarine-sinks-half-of...) and printed a t-shirt to commemorate the occasion. The shirt was very swiftly forbidden by the leadership team, since the Americans were rather unhappy about the whole thing and it was deemed to be not very diplomatic to wear such shirts to the traditional end-of-exercise bbq on the flight deck.
- kimixa 5y agoThough reading too much into wargames is also a mistake - they put significant limits on the sonar power as otherwise it would devastate the local ocean ecology, which naturally benefits those who want to remain hidden like submarines in exercises. They're meant to use estimates and an honor system of detection, but I've generally heard it's pretty laughable from people involved. I don't doubt that such ecological worries will go out the window if there's actual threats involved.