Watched the video and seems like this is a unique submarine designed for very specialist tasks such as interfering with enemy comms or infiltration of special ops forces.
I can't figure what it might be doing in the current Venezuela mission. If enemy undersea fibre-optics needed monitoring then it would make more sense to have that done some time previously to have it in place already. If special forces needed launching into the mainland then why not more safely send them from a surface vessel since there are so many already present.
I'm just speculating that it's the USS Jimmy Carter but, the Seawolf submarines are also extremely capable against surface shipping comment which would help if trump decided to, say, blockade Venezuela. And it also has quite a few Tom Huck missiles of board as well which means it can really reach out and touch cartel targets deep in enemy territory
Recon and intel gathering to generate firing solutions and target lists for surface combatants, for itself, or for later precision airstrikes certainly is something that would precede actual conflict.
If things are heating up to the extent that we are getting press stories about Maduro's posturing and threats, its a place that SSN-23 would be very valuable to have in the locality.
Watched the video and seems like this is a unique submarine designed for very specialist tasks such as interfering with enemy comms or infiltration of special ops forces.
I can't figure what it might be doing in the current Venezuela mission. If enemy undersea fibre-optics needed monitoring then it would make more sense to have that done some time previously to have it in place already. If special forces needed launching into the mainland then why not more safely send them from a surface vessel since there are so many already present.
What is the submarine doing there exactly?
I'm just speculating that it's the USS Jimmy Carter but, the Seawolf submarines are also extremely capable against surface shipping comment which would help if trump decided to, say, blockade Venezuela. And it also has quite a few Tom Huck missiles of board as well which means it can really reach out and touch cartel targets deep in enemy territory
I think you mean to say "Tomahawk" missiles (BGM-109).
Recon and intel gathering to generate firing solutions and target lists for surface combatants, for itself, or for later precision airstrikes certainly is something that would precede actual conflict.
If things are heating up to the extent that we are getting press stories about Maduro's posturing and threats, its a place that SSN-23 would be very valuable to have in the locality.