Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: jrll@Portia.stanford.edu (john ralls) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: submarine warfare Message-ID: <6804@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 23 May 89 04:32:13 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 17 Approved: military@att.att.com From: john ralls >asulaima@udenva.cair.du.edu (SULAIMAN) writes: >Back to subs. How good is ASW warfare? There was a report about 2 years ago >that said that in a naval exercise a Los Angeles class put 6 torps into the >Nimitz! Surface ASW is an oxymoron. When on a med deployment on USS Snook (SSN-592), since decommissioned, we got two green flares over Nimitz's bow, then went less shallow (Snook *couldn't* go deep!) and ran at flank to a couple miles outside the screen. We popped up the UHF mast just in time to hear the CVBG commander screaming "FIND THAT F***ing SUBMARINE" over pri-tac. Most entertaining for the watch section. John