[central_va]

So how does this attack sub get from France to the Fla coast? It transited at 25 knots underwater for about a week. During that week it screamed along broad casting its position. Now in this exercise the sub started out a few miles away creeping along at slow undetectable speed. Not realistic.

[Drew68]

So how does this attack sub get from France to the Fla coast? It transited at 25 knots underwater for about a week. During that week it screamed along broad casting its position. Now in this exercise the sub started out a few miles away creeping along at slow undetectable speed. Not realistic.

The training exercise (I'm assuming it was last month's COMTUEX) took place off the coast of Florida. It wasn't a simulated trans-Atlantic attack. The French sub was part of the exercise and already on station.

[Spktyr]

Guess what - the French have a naval base in the Caribbean. Fort Saint Louis, Martinique.

[lentulusgracchus]

It transited at 25 knots underwater for about a week. During that week it screamed along broad casting its position.

Not necessarily true.... In 1969 a Northern Fleet Echo-II SSGN equipped with "Prairie Masker" equipment actually made it from the Kola Peninsula to Cienfuegos, Cuba without once being detected after leaving its base. Post-analysis of a huge pile of data identified ONE detection of the target creeping along the Greenland shelf in shallow water.