How a Single Swedish Submarine Defeated the US Navy

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[ragerancher]

"in warfare this isn't a sound strategy"

Well technically, as it's sonar, it is.

[robertmuller]

And the great thing is that the whole submarine comes in a flat pack and can be put together with a single Allen key!

[TheKaffeeKlatsch]

And the sonar tech heard faint sounds of Abba playing over his headphones.

[korgothofbarbaria]

Sailor "Sir sonar conntact!!! Bearing 345..they... They are playing ABBA??"
Captain: "Dear God... All hands abandon ship....

[davidian]

US Navy: We have a fine Naval tradition.
Sweden: We've put Vikings in a submarine.

[vuk.]

US: *builds a 6.2bn carrier with a taskforce to follow it*
*GETS SUNK BY SOME GUY NAMED BJORK*

[spacekraken]

"I'm about to end this man's whole carrier"

[namasayanif]

This sub holds its "farts" for 2 weeks to stalk an enemy. That's dedication.

[BERTAN]

USA: sweden can we borrow your high tech sub so we can learn how to destroy it?



Sweden: Yeah sure!

[felixmich]

1:28 "in warfare, this isn't a sound strategy."

I see what you did there..

[christionhunt]

This is why we have war games, to practice and find weaknesses in each other’s military. This was more of a success than anything.

[MrWasGehtSieDasAn]

Small fun fact, the German navy had done the same. During an exercise with a US fleet, the German diesel submarine U-24 of the 206 class was only assigned a scouting role. The captain of the submarine felt insulted and thought that the americans would underestimate the capabilities of a diesel submarine, and decided to cross the "insurmountable" defense ring of the escort ships, fired a simulated torpedo fan at the carrier USS Enterprise, made a photo of the Enterprise through the scope and emerged right next to the Enterprise. Imagine how embarrassing it must have been to the captain of the Enterprise to have explained this to his superiors.

[FEED_EZ]

US: we have powerful sonar, we can detect anything
Sweden submarine: *Crouch*
US: where did that submarine go? Welp, back to work

[milesblue]

The Swedes don't have trillion-dollar defense budgets to squander, so they do things in a smart and cost-effective way.

[joemama-mkzz]

6.2 billion dollar aircraft carrier vs 1 buildable Ikea submarine

[NEMAS]

I’ve been in one Gotland class and seen the motor. As a tall guy I can say that the room for me was more than good. They have the motor underneath protection plates so people can’t just enter and take pictures. We were lucky, they were doing maintenance so the hatches were not mounted and we could see this beautiful motor

[Spherz]

Us: “invests a mountain of unpaid debt money on a $6.2 Billion Carrier”

Swedes: *haha ship go boom boom*

[stereotype.]

I once heard an admiral say “if there’s going to be another world war, there’ll be two types of ships: submarines and sunk”

[ejr_]

What wins: the world's strongest navy
Or: one sneaky boi

[gabsolej]

The swedes always surprise me with their ingenuity and creativeness