The day, when the Swedish submarine destroyed U.S aircraft carrier.
How this could happen?
In the submarine simulation, Swedish submarine destroyed one US Nuclear powered aircraft carrier (1). That shows, how deadly weapons submarines still are. The thing that makes those Swedish submarines very effective is that they are specially designed for operating in places like the Baltic Sea and tight archipelago. The small size and effective weapons make those small and very advanced diesel-electric submarines very capable weapons. And they show that technology itself doesn't mean that the other side would be automatically better. The aircraft carriers are large ships, and that means they need a lot of water around them.
The modern conventional submarines are using a new type of machine, like fuel cells and possible there are at least plans to hydrogen as fuel, and they are really quiet and deadly. The hydrogen would allow the nuclear-powered submarine capacity to give fuel supply for conventional submarines while they are underwater. And new air cleaning systems, what removes carbon dioxide from the exhaust gas are giving the non-nuclear submarines new type of capacities.
If the submarine is laying on the bottom of the sea silently, and use some passive sensors like TV-cameras and hydrophones to make contact with the target it's very hard to detect, if it would not be stealth. When the target would be driven over it, it can simply shoot the torpedo to the bottom of the biggest ship. This is why submarines are dangerous. The diesel-electric submarines are quiet if they are shutting down the diesel.
And the systems of the aircraft carriers are meant to detect the nuclear-power submarines, which are quite noisy. The cooling systems that are used with nuclear reactors are keeping noise. The diesel-electric submarines have limited operational capacity than nuclear-powered submarines, but in limited areas like the Baltic Sea, they can be effective.
But in the modern military world is created the service systems, which can offer support also, when the submarine is at the open seas. That means that submarines can fill their tanks in underwater positions. For the use of that purpose of hydrogen as the fuel of new submarines has been researched. The nuclear-powered submarine could create the fuel to the conventional submarine by using electrolysis. And if those submarines are operating as couples, that would give the ultimate strike capacity to those boats.
And in that kind of scenario, the conventional or diesel-electric submarines that are supported by the nuclear-powered submarines would slip near hostile coasts, and then they can deliver scuba-divers or launch weapons to the targets what might be the land-structures or ships what are at harbors.
The diesel-electric submarines like Russian "Kilo" (2) and UKs "Upholder"-class (3) boats can also carry nuclear weapons. That means that those conventional boats have very big strike capacity, and by using the modern cruise missiles and other weapons they are still deadly weapons.
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