Comments on: Actual underwater combat occurs silently with very little reaction time https://www.isegoria.net/2020/04/actual-underwater-combat-occurs-silently-with-very-little-reaction-time/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: CVLR https://www.isegoria.net/2020/04/actual-underwater-combat-occurs-silently-with-very-little-reaction-time/comment-page-1/#comment-3145754 CVLR Thu, 30 Apr 2020 01:03:59 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46603#comment-3145754 https://i.ibb.co/xmmxB7D/Thinking-Face-Emoji.png

]]> By: CVLR https://www.isegoria.net/2020/04/actual-underwater-combat-occurs-silently-with-very-little-reaction-time/comment-page-1/#comment-3145753 CVLR Thu, 30 Apr 2020 01:02:40 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46603#comment-3145753 Aircraft carriers were invented to transport groups of Hellcats across the Pacific Ocean. Hellcats were propeller-driven airplanes with a combat range of a thousand miles and were in operational use before the discovery of the transistor, before intercontinental ballistic missiles, before integrated circuits.

Why do they still exist at all?

It really makes you think. ????

]]> By: McChuck https://www.isegoria.net/2020/04/actual-underwater-combat-occurs-silently-with-very-little-reaction-time/comment-page-1/#comment-3145443 McChuck Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:50:25 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46603#comment-3145443 So sub-vs-sub fights boil down to long-range sniping or gunfights in a phone booth.

]]> By: Adar https://www.isegoria.net/2020/04/actual-underwater-combat-occurs-silently-with-very-little-reaction-time/comment-page-1/#comment-3142934 Adar Sun, 26 Apr 2020 17:58:52 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=46603#comment-3142934 Underwater collisions are occurring because the two boats just cannot hear one another.

I think the carrier group surface warships tow an array behind them that deceives those wake homing torpedoes. But correct, a mass attack of such torpedoes could destroy a carrier.

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