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Whilst the crew of the Venturer only had paper, pencils and decent maths skills to plot a firing solution, modern subs have computers and advanced homing torpedoes - had the Cold War turned hot after the 1960s (not before then), there certainly would have been underwater submarine battles-and in fairness, that is when a large number of such sub battles are set (thank you, Tom Clancy!).

This is because due to the nature of water acoustics and sonar a submarine has the best chance of successfully detecting another submarine as other real time methods are comparatively deaf.

That said, it does reflect actual military doctrine despite the sparsity of major naval conflict since World War II. While surfaced, submarines were just as vulnerable to torpedo attacks made by submerged enemy submarines as any other vessel, but because of their lower profiles (small conning towers, decks almost awash) were difficult to detect visually, and thus were rarely attacked by enemy submarines—though this did happen occasionally, with US, British, Japanese, and German submarines notching confirmed kills on surfaced enemy subs.

No matter what war or what type of subs are involved.they will be fighting underwater.ĭuring World War I and World War II, submarines were almost entirely episodically submersible torpedo boats, obliged to run on the surface using their air-breathing engines (mostly diesel-electric propulsion systems) for higher speed, greater endurance, and to charge the batteries that allowed them to maintain steerage and very slow speeds underwater. In the long history (at least back to 1775) and considerable number (more than 2000) of submarines used in warfare.how many times do you think a submerged submarine has sunk another submerged submarine? 500? 200? 100? 50? 10?Īctually, to the best of our knowledge it has happened just once, during Operation Caesar, when HMS Venturer sank U-864 while U-864 was transporting important war materiel, vehicle blueprints and technical experts to Japan.īut if you were to believe Hollywood, it's a regular occurrence.