Is the U.S.
Navy Overrated
In 1989, naval analyst Norman Polmar wrote in Naval Forces that
during NATOs exercise Northern Star,
the Dutch submarine
Zwaardvis was the only orange (enemy) submarine to successfully
stalk and sink a blue (allied) aircraft carrier
The carrier in
question might have been the U.S.S. America, as it was a
participant in this exercise.
Ten years later there were reports that the Dutch submarine Walrus
had been even more successful in the exercise JTFEX/TMDI99. During
this exercise the Walrus penetrates the U.S. screen and sinks
many ships, including the U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt
CVN-71. The submarine launches two attacks and manages to sneak
away.
To celebrate the sinking the crew designed a special T-shirt.
Fittingly, the T-shirt depicted the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt
impaled on the tusks of a walrus. It was also reported that the
Walrus sank many of the Roosevelts escorts, including the nuclear
submarine U.S.S. Boise, a cruiser, several destroyers and frigates,
plus the command ship U.S.S. Mount Whitney.
2.thats
why we buy more sub