[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.

[central_va]

It wasn't a simulated trans-Atlantic attack. The French sub was part of the exercise and already on station.

Exactly. A CVBG doesn't go into an area with known bad guys subs in a real war scenario. The hostile Sub would be tracked and probably sunk in transit long before it became a threat to the CVBG. A CVBG only goes into sanitized waters. If you cannot tell the CVBG where the bad guys are then they don't go into a high probability area unless the mission is really worth the risk.