Was just watching Jack Ryan Season 3 and seeing the display of force and their movements causes some interesting dissonance given what we know now.

  • Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Old diesel subs? Sure.

    But back in 2005 a now thirty year old Gotland-class diesel sub embarassed the USS Reagan in war games.

    Since then, plenty of countries have designed newer and better diesel subs, and battery tech has obviously improved.

    • Ryumast3r@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      There’s a massive difference between an acoustically-optimized, AIP-capable Swedish submarine built thirty years ago, and what the North Koreans have which is basically none of those.

      Also, while the Reagan itself was pretty new at the time, the Nimitz class was already a 30-year old design when that war game happened, and is now almost 60 years old as a class.