$6,000,000,000 ‘Nimitz-Class Supercarrier’ ‘Sunk’ by $100,000,000 Diesel Sub

$6,000,000,000 ‘Nimitz-Class Supercarrier’ ‘Sunk’ by $100,000,000 Diesel Sub

Key Points and Summary – In a now-legendary 2005 war game, a small, ultra-quiet Swedish diesel-electric submarine, the HSwMS Gotland, repeatedly “sank” the $6 billion American supercarrier USS Ronald Reagan. Leveraging its revolutionary Stirling Air-Independent Propulsion (AIP) system, the Gotland was able to evade the carrier strike group’s extensive anti-submarine defenses and score multiple simulated torpedo hits. (June 18, 2021) As seen from…