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Originally Posted by look 171
Just finishing watching Grayhound, finally. Great movie BTW. It got me thinking, how do we sink or combat modern subs, I haven't a clue? Depth charges, still? What protection do they have against battle ships or the latest and the greatest out there today?
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I think we only use battleships against the aliens these days, from what I hear. Though a USN battleship nerd/metallugrical eng prof on sabbatical some years ago at Colorado Mines had an amazing two hour talk on the Iowa class. What tremendous machines!
I have no real knowledge in the field, but I wonder at some point if you have to start looking for "dark/quiet" parts of the ocean. The newer generation (see the Swedes) of electric boats are stupid quiet, and they can take out any surface ship, period. It's not a superpower-only game anymore. The ability to take out capital assets so quickly is kind of terrifying in that things could escalate very (very) quickly to nuclear exchanges.
Or, we had analogous discussions in the 1960s and yet here we are today - so who knows of the future?