elmilitaro
Senior Airman
Good point les.
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ozumn said:i just tell what i think about gripen, i dont get why you bug me about that sub im prettý sure the US Navy hired the SWEDUSHsub to get there sonar and stuff uptodate so they can take care of Iran and North Korea, and we are allways willing to help.
I was in a P-3 squadron. Right now ASW warfare is becoming a lost art because subs are no longer perceived as a major threat. One of our intelligence officers once told me that someday when the threat is real the US will be in a big rush to retrain crews to perform ASW operations. In the mean time the exercises like those with Gotland are keeping the ASW art alive.ozumn said:I think the USA will attack after they get some more experice hunting disel subs,
For almost a year the US Navy has been hunting a Swedish submarine, the HMS Gotland, off America's west coast.
The hunt is, of course, a one year training programme - but the Americans now want to extend the contract with the Swedish Navy.
Time after time, as part of the Americans' training in tracking down smaller vessels, the Swedish submarine and its crew have eluded their pursuers.
The programme started last summer but the US Navy has said that it would like to hire the Swedish submarine and crew for another year, reported the newspaper Blekinge Läns Tidning.
That is good news as far as the Swedish submarine flotilla is concerned, and it has already requested the government's permission to continue.
"Both the Americans and ourselves are interested in a continuation," said Jens Plambeck, chief of staff at the First Submarine Flotilla in Karlskrona.
The key to the HMS Gotland's success is the Stirling engines which allow the submarine to remain underwater for a unusually long time.
Going where was a waste of time????yeah guess it was a waist of time going there
and a waist of money spend from the US Navy.
Training like what ur talking about here is not a waste of time or money at all... In reality, the US Navy spends far too little time in actual combat operations...San Diego i think it was and sorry for the bad spelling.
zerum said:You mustn`t be so hard to the Swedes. They havent been in combat since the early 1800.
FLYBOYJ said:I was in a P-3 squadron. Right now ASW warfare is becoming a lost art because subs are no longer perceived as a major threat. One of our intelligence officers once told me that someday when the threat is real the US will be in a big rush to retrain crews to perform ASW operations. In the mean time the exercises like those with Gotland are keeping the ASW art alive.
With or without the Gotland US Navy ASW squadrons will lean to track anything put in the ocean - they did it for 40 years during the cold war and they'll continue to do it into the 21st century....
uhh... same here... too thinDerAdlerIstGelandet said:Yeap and when you get older you will be worrying about it more too.