Trust me on this, we know how to deal with Kilo's and the like, more quiet than nuke boats but not silent. The only reason we are asking other countries for help is we have retired our last diesel boats a while back.

Sure Edsinger

The US know how to deal with those kilo subs, but trust me on this, I am pretty dammed sure that the chinese know how to deal with a Los Angeles Class Sub.

If you aren't afraid of the Diesel Class or AIP type subs why train against them?

- Phil

PS. From the looks of it, the US Navy have had problems with nations diesel subs seems interesting.

anybody know if there maybe a secret black project base that make and test naval units? i am sure they have one like area 51 but instead area 51 with aircrafts, but another base with naval ships. you have to wonder where all those black buget money goes to....

The cover of this illustrious magazine :



Look at such blatant propaganda. They photoshop the sailor to look like the devil when he's probably just some poor conscript in the navy.

I'll put my money on the boys in the US Navy, they'll have the edge on training, though they're gonna have a hard time fighting China.

thanks,
drfunk

intresting premise on psteels post.

Something further for many of you to consider beyond the mere weaponry.
China has been granted huge loans to industrialize..by western nations. With these loans comes huge transfers of certain technologies. The Chinese are hungry for more..of all kinds and will and have used thier financial connections to secure more technologies of all types...restricted and non restricted. What do you folks think is implied in most favored nation trading status. Like the Soviets ...what they cannot get they will steal and copy...if possible. My point is that these loan connections secure certain political positions for the Chinese. Positions not made clear to the public of all nations by public education or the media who is "looking out for you!
It is the economic influence of Western nations which has put China in this position.

Agree with edsingers post on why we train on diesel boats. The last American diesel boat was retired over 15 years ago. So too have retired the experienced sailors who have the practical on the job knowlege of diesel boats. Classroom training is there..but real on the job experience is not. Those of us who have operated in any field of endevour know the difference between classroom senerios and actual on the job problems.
No experienced sailor takes for granted the ability of any opponent...to do so is suicide.
One more thing about the US Navy. The turnover rate of personel retiring , getting transfered, or just plain getting out after their first tours is huge. This represents a huge loss of experienced personel. I did not know it was that huge until I worked on Aircraft Carriers and got a sense of how many new people had to be qualified from scratch.
With this in mind..it is not difficult to see how people with diesel experience ..hands on ..is a rare commodity in the US Navy. This is why they train...constantly.
Remember..we are not just talking about a diesel boat per se...we are talking about a total weapons platform. Diesel boats with modern weaponry , sonar, and advanced maneuvering/training is not a thing for any experienced sailor to turn their nose up at. Sonar , training , and weapons have made quantum leaps in the last 40 years. The Flying Tigers in China with a overall inferior airplane is a textbook example.

Also Intresting question posted by ulshadow...very intresting.I believe you have answered your own question olde man...well done. The rest I will leave to your imagination.

Thanks,
Orangetom

Edsinger,

What do the Bush Administration have on you that means you are the poster child for the knee-jerk defence of everything they do or say?

Cheers

BHR

Originally posted by gooseuk
Sure Edsinger

The US know how to deal with those kilo subs, but trust me on this, I am pretty dammed sure that the chinese know how to deal with a Los Angeles Class Sub.

If you aren't afraid of the Diesel Class or AIP type subs why train against them?

- Phil

PS. From the looks of it, the US Navy have had problems with nations diesel subs seems interesting.

Would that be a Los Angeles or a San Juan or a Seawolf or Virgina?

The Chinese at present can not deal with the LA class , especially the San Juan.

The Problem is the diesel subs are not as easily found as the very noisy nuke boats.

We train against them because we decommed our old diesel boats and we need the practice.



as for the Bush statement, if you only knew how much I dislike this administration, I just hate tulipwalkers more..Less of 2 evils.

I have 1 word for you intersepter torpedo's be easy enough to make we have the tech look at sea ram just adapt it to a torpedo. Make a small light and fast torpedo with minimal warhead. example - contact on sonar 1400m we got a fish running hot and inbound. Ploting fireing salution........ Under Sea Ram ready sir. Fire tubes 1 and 6.... THuwoshhh... Torpedo has been intersepted sir. Plot firing salution on the attacking boat. open outer doors... place safty's at 800m... Fire tube 2... 2 min later BANG... enemy sub down...

Just make sure the intersepters have normal counter masures built into them to try to get the torpedo to track on the intersepter. Even a small explosion in close prosimity to a torpedo would damage/disable it cripling the guide's our control systems. Torpedo's are fast and noisie.

What they need is duel speed torpedo's you fire it and it runs slow and quit then when it lock's on the target and closes the gap then it flips up to full power. Closing the last few 100m.

Another intresting idea would be under sea fighter type craft. That could go down atleast 800m Have then run off fuel cells and have a range of atleast 250miles and carry 2-4 torpedo's and 2-6 interspetor torpedo's. With sprint speeds similar to torpedo's and cruse speeds like normal sub's

retro fit a boomer sub to act as a carrier. So mother ship comes in and drops off its 4-6 figher subs. The fighters stalk in on the target fleet. They plot there targets then all at once fire all there torpedo's and run like hell. If they make it back to the mother ship reload and refuel them rinse repeat tell the target fleet is gone. The pricie old boomer sub stays out of harms way and the cheep fighters go in and do the dirty work. And if the fleet did not have the interseptor torpedo's or very good counter masures then. At least 8-24 ships would go down with each wave of attacks.

Originally posted by edsinger
as for the Bush statement, if you only knew how much I dislike this administration, I just hate tulipwalkers more..Less of 2 evils.

So why defend them at every turn. Why not simply stay quiet?

As the old saying goes "Better to stay quiet and be thought an idiot than to open ones mouth and prove it"

Now I am not saying you are an idiot as I most surely do not think that but I am sure you get my meaning.

Cheers

BHR

The US Navy has had some problems with diesel powered subs in the past. That is why the US Navy is actually leasing subs and crews from other countries. They will use the subs for practice.

The US Navy does not have "problems" with DE boats.

Fore decades, the US Sub fleet was calibrated to fight fast Soviet nuke boats that were easy to track.

The US Sub fleet now is in the process of "recalibrating" for warfare against quieter (and slower, less well armed, and shorter-legged) DE boats to be used in littoral situations.

That does not imply that the US Sub fleet (or Brit Fleet for that matter) has litter or no capability to deal with Kilos and the like. And again, ASW does not solely comprise sub-on-sub scenarios. Ther are other factors involved, including airpower (huge factor) and surface power (a factor) and even the availability and use of "national assets" (huge capability that people outside the community are clueless about). If you think the US Navy would just send 2-3 SSNs into the Taiwan Straight without any support with orders to sink all CHICOM subs, you are fooling yourself.

We lease and practice against DE boats from other nations because practice makes perfect. Pro golfers spend hours at the range, and so to US Navy sub drivers. The US Navy does not use DE boats for various reasons, one of which is that they are more dangerous to operate than nuke. I know this to be true, because I was a first-hand witness when the last US Navy DE boat caught fire and almost sank in the mid-Atlantic when seawater got into the battery compartment.

And BHR, instead of changing the subject to a political bashing session more appropriate to another forum, why don't you stick to the subject of naval submarine warfare?

Gooseuk, I can guarentee there are no US sub drivers who are "afraid" of CHICOM DE boats, that is for sure. If memory serves me right, the CHICOMs recently lost one other their DE boats, and they didn't even know it was dead until some peasant fisherman ran across it's periscope sticking out of the water, as it floated DIW just under the surface. The entire crew was killed due to faulty equipment. Yeah, we are really afraid...........

We are glad the Russians, for the most part, are out of the business. And we don't have to worry about our NATO friends. That leaves China, Iran, NK and the likes. While it is wise to continue to "sharpen our swords", we certainly don't fear engaements with those nations with their current capabilities.

US submarines wont have to fight alone against chinese ones. Remember about ASW aircraft and helis. Attacking carrier groups with lot of rockets will stop to be a good idea in 10-20 years cause of new anti missile systems like metalstorm or lasers. Also count in a huge advantage of US ECM technology over chinese electronics. No one knows if these missiles wont even need to be shoot if they will be changed into unguided rockets 100 miles away from target . DE submarines always have advantage over SSN's in shallow waters, but what if they need to fight on deep water, where SSN's are better? The only advantege of DE boats is being something quieter at medium speeds than nuclears. But if SSN slows to 6 knots there is really no difference. And who have better passive sonars? Wonder what a seawolf class could do against DE boats.

Yes .. in the end it all comes down to who has superiority on the surface..we obv. cannot assume this to be a pure sub vs. sub conflict.. esp. since the chinese
DE subs are not meant for deep sea stuff..
The problem only arises if the US is trying to whack china in its own backyard, i.e. in shallow chinese waters.. where superiority on the surface and in the air is not guaranteed..
500-1000km of the coast, the USN still reigns supreme..

Pyros

I would have to say that you are a fool and so are the captains you speak of, that float around the oceans, the British Navy understand the threat from those boats and just how dangerous those craft can be when they are operated with even the most limited of skills.

Any military person that say they are not afraid of a possible enemy that in some cases can attack from no where are lairs, the US navy are investing in these loaned craft because they know just how much of a threat these craft are to their surface combatants, I can not be sure of the subs but diesel subs can be just as effective with subs as are with surface combatants.

I honestly can't believe the ignorance or the arrogance of some people or their idea of what their Military can do.

- Phil

Originally posted by Pyros
The US Navy does not have "problems" with DE boats.

Fore decades, the US Sub fleet was calibrated to fight fast Soviet nuke boats that were easy to track.

The US Sub fleet now is in the process of "recalibrating" for warfare against quieter (and slower, less well armed, and shorter-legged) DE boats to be used in littoral situations.

ehh I think if you go back and check your history books you'll see the bulk of the soviet subs over the decades have been deisel electric subs...infact the backbone of the chinese subs fleet are soviet subs...so the recalibration argument falls on deaf ears.

In general everything thats been said here was argued back in the 1970s and 1980s....same arrogance and ignorance.These same chinese subs are being armed with the new generation of russian AshM like Sunburn etc...the article even mentions missile strikes of upto 100.

[edit on 25-5-2005 by psteel]

Originally posted by BillHicksRules

So why defend them at every turn. Why not simply stay quiet?

As the old saying goes "Better to stay quiet and be thought an idiot than to open ones mouth and prove it"

Now I am not saying you are an idiot as I most surely do not think that but I am sure you get my meaning.

Cheers

BHR

OH I am not offended at all.... and lets get one thing clear, I do not defend this administration at every turn. It turns out that it is much better than a Tulipwalking Kerry one would have been.

Actually to be honest, I campaigned against Bush, but I like him more now than I did then if that is any help.

If a man can get under the Tulipwalkers skin that well, then I like him, even if he has faults.


As for the Chinese subs, they might be diesel Kilos with modern weapons, but they are not near the threat some would have you believe. Like someone so eloquently pointed out above, practice makes perfect and we don't have them anymore.

There seems to be little effort by many of the world's navies to develop some kind of anti-torpedo technology. The only ones I'm aware of are the torpedo nets from the British and the anti-torpedo rockets from the Russians. For most ships it seems there's not much they can do when a torpedo heads for them. Maybe turn around and scoot, but ships are slow.

Anti-torpedo nets... hmmm .. never heard of that.. sounds very interesting..

Taishyou,

You forgot about the US Nixie system.