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ubermonkey on April 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modern submarine torpedo attacks are not like in t...

Not for nothing, but have there BEEN many submarine engagements since WWII?

Is current doctrine that, say, fast attack subs would shoot at opposing boomers from underwater? I mean, it seems likely, right?

jki275 on April 15, 2020 | [–]

Not a submariner, but I always thought that was the essence of the existence of the fast attack.

HideousKojima on April 15, 2020 | [–]

There are some suspected ones during the Cold War (the USS Scorpion and the Soviet K-129)

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