X-Nico

8 unusual facts about submarine warfare


Amphibious ready group

In a secondary role, these ships perform sea control and limited power projection missions using AV-8B Harrier II aircraft and anti-submarine helicopters.

Anti-submarine warfare

The United States studied the German Type XXI and used the information to modify WW2 fleet boats with the GUPPY program.

Once the US was able to ramp up construction of destroyers and destroyer escorts, as well as bringing over highly effective anti-submarine techniques learned from the British from experiences in the Battle of the Atlantic, they would take a significant toll on Japanese submarines, which tended to be slower and could not dive as deep as their German counterparts.

Carrier Strike Group Eleven 2004–09 operations

The bilateral force conducted air defense, anti-surface warfare, anti-subsurface warfare, and VBSS operations in the compressed waterspace of the South China Sea, validating current tactics, techniques and procedures and identifying areas for further development.

Naval Air Station Bermuda

The US Navy moved its anti-submarine air-patrol operations from the old NAS Bermuda flying boat base, to the USAF Base at Kindley Field when its Martin P5M Marlin flying boats were removed from service in the 1960s.

Naval Air Station Bermuda Annex

The US Navy began initial operation of Anti-submarine patrols by floatplanes operating from the Royal Air Force station on Darrell's Island.

NPO Novator

OKB-8 was the USSR's sole developer of warheads delivered by ASW missiles such as the RPK-2 Viyuga (SS-N-15 'Starfish') and RPK-6 Vodopad (SS-N-16 'Stallion')

Submarine warfare

Modern submarine warfare consists primarily of diesel and nuclear submarines using weapons (like torpedoes, missiles or nuclear weapons), as well as advanced sensing equipment, to attack other submarines, ships, or land targets.


904th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron

The earliest predecessor of the squadron was the 14th Reconnaissance Squadron (later the 404th Bombardment Squadron) which participated in anti-submarine warfare patrols in the Gulf of Mexico before moving to Alaska to participate in combat in the Aleutian Islands, where it earned a Distinguished Unit Citation.

Ayanami-class destroyer

The Ayanami class was a destroyer class built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) in the late 1950s.The primary purpose was anti-submarine warfare, so this class was classified as "DDK" (hunter-killer anti-submarine destroyer) unofficially.

Command of the sea

A more modern countermeasure, similar to privateering, was the use of submarine warfare by Germany during World War I and World War II to attack allied merchant shipping primarily in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Baltic Sea.

Future of the Royal Navy

At the beginning of the 1990s the Royal Navy was a force designed for the Cold War: with its three small aircraft carriers and a force of anti-submarine frigates and destroyers, its main purpose was to search for – and in the event of an actual declaration of war, to destroy – Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic.

Gotland-class submarine

In 2004, the Swedish government received a request from the United States of America to lease HMS Gotland – Swedish-flagged, commanded and manned, for a duration of one year for use in anti-submarine warfare exercises.

Invergordon railway station

On 26 November 1944, RAF Short Sunderland DD851 of the 4th Operational Training Unit departed Cromarty Firth, RAF Station Alness on an anti-submarine patrol of the North Sea off the coast of Scotland.

Japanese destroyer Okikaze

In April 1942, Okikaze was recalled to the Yokosuka Naval District, where it was assigned anti-submarine patrols of the entrance of Tokyo Bay for the duration of the war, making only an occasional convoy escort run along the coast of Japan to Kushimoto, Wakayama or patrols of the coast of northern Honshū through the end of 1942.

Leigh light

The Leigh Light (abbreviated L/L) was a British World War II era anti-submarine device used in the Second Battle of the Atlantic.

No. 221 Squadron RAF

Initially engaged in anti-submarine warfare in the Aegean, it was sent to Russia in December 1918 to support White forces against the Bolsheviks.

South African Navy

Previously before its retirement the SAAF operated the Westland Wasp for the SAN in the anti-submarine warfare role.

Udaloy-class destroyer

The Udaloy I class are a series of anti-submarine destroyers built for the Soviet Navy, eight of which are currently in service with the Russian Navy.


see also

Anti-submarine mortar

Anti-submarine warfare did not become an issue of great concern until World War I, when Germany used submarines in an attempt to strangle British shipping in the Atlantic Ocean and elsewhere.

B54

Blackburn B-54, a British carrier-borne Anti-submarine warfare aircraft

ComSubPac

The Force provides anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface ship warfare, precision land strike, mine warfare, intelligence, surveillance and early warning and special warfare capabilities to the U.S. Pacific and strategic deterrence capabilities to the U.S. Strategic Command.

Fenian Ram

Presumably as a tribute to this vessel, the submarine which features in Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel of submarine warfare, The Dragon in the Sea, is named "Fenian Ram".

German submarine U-413

There, she sank the British vessel Wanstead south of Greenland, whose survivors were picked up by the corvette HMS Poppy and the ASW (anti-submarine warfare) HMS Northern Gift.

Kaman SH-2 Seasprite

In 1960, the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) announced that the HU2K was the frontrunner for a large anti-submarine warfare contract; the Canadian Treasury Board had approved an initial procurement of 12 units for $14.5 million.

Lee R. Scherer

He served as technical assistant to the team responsible for the establishment of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Research Center for NATO in La Spezia, Italy from 1959 to 1962.

Miles B. Wachendorf

Wachendorf's shore assignments included deputy assistant for Chief of Naval Operation/Vice Chief of Naval Operations decision coordination, branch head for anti-submarine warfare, chief of the Joint Staff's nuclear/counter-proliferation division.

Moskva-class helicopter carrier

The aim of the ships was to counter NATO Polaris submarines and act as a flagship for anti-submarine warfare.

Otto Kranzbühler

Dönitz was also accused of waging unrestricted submarine warfare for issuing orders not to rescue survivors from ships attacked by submarine - specifically War Order No. 154 in 1939 and another similar order after the Laconia incident in 1942.

Sea King helicopter

Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King, an anti-submarine warfare helicopter operated by the Brazilian, Italian, Japanese and US navies

Westland Sea King, an anti-submarine warfare and search and rescue helicopter operated by the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Indian Navy, based on the Sikorsky SH-3

Sikorsky CH-124 Sea King, an anti-submarine warfare helicopter operated by the Canadian armed forces based on the SH-3

Sovremenny-class destroyer

The ship's helicopter pad and telescopic hangar accommodates one Kamov Ka-27 anti-submarine warfare helicopter, NATO codename Helix.

Tom Clancy's SSN

SSN is also the title of a board wargame published by Game Designer's Workshop in 1975, and was the first attempt at a serious modern submarine and anti-submarine warfare simulation game published for the entertainment market.

United States Naval Aviator

P-3 Orion - anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, maritime surveillance, overwater & overland ISR

P-8 Poseidon - anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, maritime surveillance, overwater & overland ISR