January 19, 2020
The Navy SEALs Have Plans For Small, Deadly Submarines
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by Joseph Trevithick
Key Point: Would this work or is this a bad idea?
The U.S. Navy is hard at work developing new underwater transports for its elite commandos. The SEALs expect the new craft—and improvements to large submarine “motherships†that will carry them—to be ready by the end of the decade.
SEALs have ridden in small submersibles to sneak into hostile territory for decades. For instance, the special operators reportedly used the vehicles to slip into Somalia and spy on terrorists in 2003.
Now the sailing branch is looking to buy two new kinds of mini-subs. While details are understandably scarce, the main difference between the two concepts appears to be the maximum range.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/navy-seals-have-plans-small-deadly-submarines-115281
