Could This Fatal Flaw Doom U.S. Navy Submarines?

[rangerrebew]

Could This Fatal Flaw Doom U.S. Navy Submarines?

Sub-hunting spy planes armed with torpedoes, maritime drones armed with missiles, high-resolution, surface scanning cameras, and fast-moving surface ships dragging sonar sensors while conducting surface reconnaissance are all fast-growing threats to U.S. Navy submarines.

by Kris Osborn

Here's What You Need to Remember: Perhaps an undersea drone could identify an enemy subsea target, pass the data back to an undersea-warfare commander who in turn instantly sends coordinates to a helicopter armed with Very Light Weight Torpedoes. This innovative kill-chain concept was demonstrated by Northrop Grumman in a Navy exercise.

Sub-hunting spy planes armed with torpedoes, maritime drones armed with missiles, high-resolution, surface scanning cameras, and fast-moving surface ships dragging sonar sensors while conducting surface reconnaissance are all fast-growing threats to U.S. Navy submarines.

Part of the challenge is finding ways to minimize Navy submarine vulnerability to enemy detection and attack by simply remaining at safer depths, yet in order to achieve a high-degree of high-speed connectivity, submarines need to break the ocean surface by coming to “periscope depth,” which is closer to the surface.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/could-fatal-flaw-doom-us-navy-submarines-189836

[AARguy]

I'm an Army guy so I don't know all that much about Navy tech. My Navy Commander brother-in-law told me, however, that periscopes are being replaced with GPS-equipped sensors that float on the surface and are tethered to the submarine from a distance on fiber-optics, allowing visual, signal, and other sensing at a distance from the submarine.

[PeteS in CA]

"Fatal flaw"? It's just one more needed step in detection and evasion technological evolution.