SDV: The secret weapon of the Navy SEAL Teams

[rangerrebew]

SDV: The secret weapon of the Navy SEAL Teams
Special Operations
By Stavros Atlamazoglou
December 5, 2024
 
The Navy SEAL community is arguably the best-known special operations organization in the U.S. military – if not the world. But there is a smaller community within the SEAL Teams you may have never heard of that specializes in some old-school commando-style missions: the SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) Teams.

Inspired by the Italian frogmen of World War II, who sunk or damaged several Allied ships in daring special operations, the SEAL Delivery Vehicle Teams operate a fleet of mini-submarines that can strike or carry special operators clandestinely behind enemy lines.

A unique capability

The Navy SEAL community is arguably the best-known special operations organization in the U.S. military, if not the world. But there is a smaller community within the SEAL Teams you may have never heard of that specializes in some old-school commando-style missions: the SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) Teams.

Although not a primary mission-set, SDVs can also support Naval Special Warfare Development Group, the Tier 1 SEAL Team that specializes in counterterrorism and hostage rescue, in maritime counterterrorism scenarios by clandestinely transporting assaulters close to a target. That unit is more commonly known among those outside the SEAL community as SEAL Team 6.

https://www.sandboxx.us/sdv-the-secret-weapon-of-the-navy-seal-teams/

[Smokin Joe]

Well, another "secret" gone to pot.

(Actually not secret, just maybe not widely known).

[Bigun]

Why do SEALS these days insist on running their mouths about every damned thing? And the military designation for those things is "Submersible Delivery Vehicle".

[Smokin Joe]

Why do SEALS these days insist on running their mouths about every damned thing? And the military designation for those things is "Submersible Delivery Vehicle".

I don't know. A childhood (lifelong friend) was a plankowner in SEAL Team 6, under Marcinko. I saw the certificate. We could talk about anything, but he did not discuss their operations, ever.
That was then, this is now. I wish he'd left his Mrs. a memoir...it would have made some fascinating reading.

[Bigun]

I don't know. A childhood (lifelong friend) was a plankowner in SEAL Team 6, under Marcinko. I saw the certificate. We could talk about anything, but he did not discuss their operations, ever.
That was then, this is now. I wish he'd left his Mrs. a memoir...it would have made some fascinating reading.

I would bet a lot of money that your friend also refused to talk about SEAL tactics and capabilities. @Smokin Joe  Those are the ones I remember.

[Smokin Joe]

I would bet a lot of money that your friend also refused to talk about SEAL tactics and capabilities. @Smokin Joe  Those are the ones I remember.

And you would be right. Though he did get a kick out of being shipboard and not having to wear the uniform of the day, shave, stand a regular watch, etc., like the regular Navy, and that likely p.o.ed every officer on the ship...and then some. He did mention some of the capabilities of vessels are understated, provided an example I will not repeat, and it made perfect sense from the viewpoint of not letting potential enemies know what can be done. That one example is about all I ever got you couldn't get even then from doing a little reading. Keep in mind, this is a guy I knew from age 5 through his entire life. I'd see him after ten years, and we'd pick up like one of us had just gone out to the porch to get something.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Some weasle bureaucrat must be looking for funding for this latest Pentagon toy.

Will the SDV be based upon the Army's highly successful, double-secret-probation classified EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle?





It would be a travesty if any of America's enemies found this double-secret-probation classified EM-50 Urban Assult Vehicle info in a random Google search.