• @slickgoat@lemmy.world
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    219 days ago

    Not in anyway an expert on matters naval, but diesel subs are pretty quiet running on electric motors. Nuclear reactors make more noise.

    Feel free to correct me.

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      119 days ago

      Point is, they’re big, impossible to hide from anyone that has satellites, and you just need to get a lucky hit with a relatively cheap missile/torpedo to give the other side a multi-billion dollar loss in one go.