Thread by @Saturnax1

#SubmarinesTuesday #Submarines #NavalWarfare
1. Fictional scenario by Lars Wedin, author on strategic studies & retired surface warfare officer of the #RoyalSwedishNavy published in Tidskrift i Sjöväsendet in 2021:

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Year 2030. The submarine HMS Blekinge lies forward & scouts.

@CovertShores @FORONAVAL @TayfunOzberk @The_Lookout_N @HMUboff @GrumpyLars @vcdgf555 @Aviation_Intel @USN_Submariner @SubBrief 2. She lies quietly on the bottom but has a reconnaissance drone that examines the Russian sensors that are on the now unused gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2. They regularly lose information.

@CovertShores @FORONAVAL @TayfunOzberk @The_Lookout_N @HMUboff @GrumpyLars @vcdgf555 @Aviation_Intel @USN_Submariner @SubBrief 3. The reconnaissance drone can also map the coast or archipelago before the landing of divers and scout out mines and sensor chains. Blekinge also has a security drone (UUV) as close protection.

@CovertShores @FORONAVAL @TayfunOzberk @The_Lookout_N @HMUboff @GrumpyLars @vcdgf555 @Aviation_Intel @USN_Submariner @SubBrief 4. The submarine is followed by an X-UUV, an unmanned, semi-autonomous submarine that accompanies as a "wingman" under a company. Its task is to perform advanced reconnaissance with near-surface behaviour and/or in a bottom-mapping/searching function at close range & at great...

@CovertShores @FORONAVAL @TayfunOzberk @The_Lookout_N @HMUboff @GrumpyLars @vcdgf555 @Aviation_Intel @USN_Submariner @SubBrief 5. distances from the submarine, equipped with high-resolution sonars and optronic/ESM masts. It relays information directly to land and to Blekinge and it is given new information from her afterwards. The protection drone also creates a dummy target effect and thereby...

@CovertShores @FORONAVAL @TayfunOzberk @The_Lookout_N @HMUboff @GrumpyLars @vcdgf555 @Aviation_Intel @USN_Submariner @SubBrief 6. increases the uncertainty for the enemy. Suddenly the battle management system goes off. The submarine has detected the Russian remote reconnaissance with minute-laying capability, which are unmanned stealth platforms, and two anti-aircraft frigates that are supposed to...

@CovertShores @FORONAVAL @TayfunOzberk @The_Lookout_N @HMUboff @GrumpyLars @vcdgf555 @Aviation_Intel @USN_Submariner @SubBrief 7. protect the remote reconnaissance. The submarine and the corvettes coordinate the situational picture and then the corvettes attack the anti-aircraft frigates by firing naval target robots. One frigate is knocked out while the other frigate successfully defends itself.

@CovertShores @FORONAVAL @TayfunOzberk @The_Lookout_N @HMUboff @GrumpyLars @vcdgf555 @Aviation_Intel @USN_Submariner @SubBrief 8. Since the battle is coordinated with the submarine, it can sink the remaining frigate with torpedoes (which is made easier since it has increased speed and is focused on air combat). Enemy unmanned platforms are knocked out with air combat forces (JAS 39 with laser-guided...

@CovertShores @FORONAVAL @TayfunOzberk @The_Lookout_N @HMUboff @GrumpyLars @vcdgf555 @Aviation_Intel @USN_Submariner @SubBrief 9. bomb, helicopter with heavy machine gun).

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Fantastic scenario, a shape of things to come. Translated from the Swedish original using Google Translate (apologies).

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