"It was the first submarine to have sunk an American nuclear-powered super aircraft carrier".
Last March a report by the French Ministry of Defense on joint exercises between the Battle team of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and the Rubis class S-602 “Safir” submarine emerged on the net (for a few hours actually). The accounts of those exercises were considered shocking for the simple reason that only one submarine was able to sink half of the American ships, including aircraft carriers.
The report was immediately withdrawn from the network, escaping most of the media. The Americans themselves, of the "massacre" during the COMPTUEX 2015 make no mention.
Even today, connecting to link of origin, there is no trace of the relationship: it was mysteriously removed by the French Ministry of Defense. However, the Chinese media has not escaped that in the new issue of "Ordnance Industry Science and Technology" they analyze the episode in a deepening entitled "A Single Nuclear Submarine 'Sinks' Half of an Aircraft Carrier Battle Group".
“The Battle Group of an Aircraft Carrier is a harmonized system composed of a multi-level and highly efficient defense. And yet, the French report (therefore with a reasonable degree of credibility) demonstrates the capabilities of nuclear submarines in the Modern Naval Warfare.
Submarines are the nemesis of aircraft carriers. During the Second World War, no less than seventeen aircraft carriers were sunk by submarines (eight from American submarines). But the historical episode that is always remembered is not that of the Second World War, but of the Falklands war. This brief but bitter conflict in the early 1980 years seems to have had an oversized impact on Chinese naval development. That episode demonstrated the efficiency of the tactics adopted by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror that without ever having been detected it has sunk the light cruiser General Belgrano. Obviously the Argentine Navy cannot be compared to the US Navy.
So how is it possible that the French navy was able to penetrate the formidable American ASW screen around the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier, 'sinking' the carrier and part of its escort?
With the same training (therefore very high) it is the weapon systems that make the difference. Class nuclear attack submarines Ruby, are among the smallest in the world. I class Los Angeles, to make a comparison, they are three times as big ".
It should be noted that the Chinese Navy has always looked carefully at the French projects for small submarines suitable also for the shallow waters of the western Pacific. Compared to the new aeronautical doctrine for sixth generation fighters (hypersonic speed at the expense of low observability), for submarines exactly the opposite seems to be true. Speed does not matter: small submarines are lethal because they are "invisible".
"There are other factors to consider. Aerial detection is effective in some operational contexts, but not for everyone. As well as the enormous dimensions of a Battle group USA represent an easy target even at long distances. Even the antisom weapons themselves are counterproductive as they pollute the acoustic environment when you don't sink the submarine at the first shot. The naval power of the United States is unparalleled in the world, but our goal is to exploit the cracks in their (not always) impenetrable armor ”.
(photo: US Navy)
Note: In this regard, read the in-depth article "The Submersible Flotilla Command of Taranto". The Italians did it in the 2008. In silence ...
