Saw sub, sank same.It's a nice thought, I think, but not sure platform availability, resourcing and training will enable this concept to succeed. Thoughts?
It's essentially a surge ready force to do theater ASW on the Northcom side of the Atlantic when Russia forward deploys its subs, which it can only do for a select period of time and only with a handful of units.It's a nice thought, I think, but not sure platform availability, resourcing and training will enable this concept to succeed. Thoughts?
The plan is to take destroyers that have recently completed deployments and are awaiting maintenance availabilities and make them ready for training and operations in the Atlantic.
Stealing good ideas from Seventh Fleet, are we?
Yeah, I understand all that MOTO ?It's essentially a surge ready force to do theater ASW on the Northcom side of the Atlantic when Russia forward deploys its subs, which it can only do for a select period of time and only with a handful of units.
We've been dealing with this problem almost exclusively with our SSNs, which don't make great wide area sensors.