‘Torpedo Hit’: How to ‘Sink’ A U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Over and Over Again

‘Torpedo Hit’: How to ‘Sink’ A U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Over and Over Again

During the Joint Task Force Exercise/Theatre Missile Defense Initiative 1999 (JTFEX/TMDI99), the Royal Netherlands Navy diesel-electric submarine HNLMS Walrus (S802) penetrated the anti-submarine screen of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) carrier strike group and simulated the sinking of the $4.5 billion Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. Under LTZ1 Jan Hulsker's command, the Walrus achieved the attack at 4,000 yards and then brought the submarin…