Australian Submarines Case Study

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The United States of America has not always been the world superpower that it is today. The same goes for its Navy. In the first several years of existence, the United States Navy was not a formidable fighting force. The young nation was hesitant to invest in a navy for many reasons, one of them being to prevent provoking the world powers of the time, France and Britain. On top of that, navies were very expensive to build and required a significant amount of resources to maintain, which the U.S. did not have at the time. To say that the United States Navy was ill prepared for war would be a dramatic understatement. The U.S. had a total of fifteen ships in its entire naval fleet compared to the might of the Royal Navy which possessed over six hundred warships. Even with the odds stacked against the U.S., President Madison declared war on 18 JUN 1812. The lack of size and power of the navy at the time would make it extremely difficult to satisfy the needs of the newly founded nation.

This separation presented communication and data-sharing challenges. Furthermore, the new design contained a number of technical risks, one of them was designing a submarine that would operate in a manner and environment very different from what Kockums was accustomed to. The risk resulted fuel system has been proven to be problematic. Swedish submarines have short patrols in calm, relatively fresh water. When a similar design was used in the salty, open water in which Australian submarines operate, water was sucked into the engine causing failure. Moreover, the RAN submarines transit greater distance and are on station for months at time, which has number of implications for fuel storage, hotel service, and other hull design features. The difference in operation concept and environment ultimately led to some equipment and system decision during design that caused problems with operations and supportability.

Not only did we have ships, but we had a device called the Turtle. Invented nearly 150 years before, it was not until the Revolutionary War that the submarine would be used in combat. A man named David Bushnell would develop the Turtle to deploy underwater mines. The Turtle would fail all of its missions and would be lost at the Battle of Fort Lee when the ship transporting it would be sunk. “Despite the failures of the Turtle, General George Washington gave Bushnell a commission as an Army engineer…After the war, he became commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.”(History 1).

Although Drebbel’s submarine was used as a tool for underwater exploration, inventors soon recognized their military potential. Bishop John Wilkins describes the strategic advantages of submarines in Mathematical Magick written in 1648. The advantages he described include the ability to travel invisibly, safety from tides and covert travel against a Navy of enemies. Overall, submarines were advantageous to science, and to the

Before World War II, the submarine was very predictable and easily managed with detection systems, depth detection, and antisubmarine forces. The aircrafts were harder to manage, and could easily penetrate enemy territory. It was not so predictable.[xii]

In the fall of 1971, as President Nixon was attempting to convince The Soviet Union to include submarines and ballistic missiles in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), the US Navy was planning on introducing a new class of submarines called the Trident. The Trident submarines were to succeed the Polaris submarines, which was developed in the 1950s. The Trident submarines were not only physically larger than the Polaris submarines, they also possessed revolutionary propulsion components and weaponry. If the US could successfully launch the Trident program, Nixon felt it would generate progress in SALT by demonstrating the United States’ commitment to strategic submarines and missiles. However, if the Trident program was unable to

In the thirty-eight years of the United States Naval Submarine Service no United States submarine had ever sunk an enemy vessel. With the ignition of the Second World War the poorly equipped and poorly trained Silent Service, nicknamed for the limited access of the media to the actions and achievements of the submarines, would be thrust into the position American submariners had longed for. The attack on Pearl Harbor left the United States Navy with few options for retribution. The three remaining aircraft carriers were to be “the last line of defense.” Commander Stuart S. Murray made the precarious situation clear to his skippers, captains, upon sending them on their first war patrol. He stressed the importance of smart sailing by

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The North had a submarine too although it was not used in war. It was called the Intelligent Whale. It was more commonly known as an experimental submarine. The Intelligent Whale was built in Newark,New Jersey during the Civil War. It was powered by a dozen men turning a big crank. It was nearly 30 feet long, weighing 46 tons, and was made of bolted together iron plates. In the 1850s,a man named Lodner Phillips designed and employed a submarine for salvage work on the Great Lakes. They continued successfully in this business for fully five years, 1851-55. Interestingly, their boat used an underwater cannon to blast obstructions. Seeing the military value of their vessel, Phillips and Peck offered it to the Navy, which responded by

The Collins Class submarine was prone to excessive noise signatures whilst travelling at speed and lacked the operational capability to enter conflict situations due to the

Summary: Russell Weigley analyzes the American Navy strategy of ship building from the end of the Civil War to the start of World War I. Through the impact of two people, Stephen Luce and Alfred Mahan. Luce created the Naval War College and took part with the naval thinkers that came about in absence of ships after the Civil War. The main focus of Mahan was to build a fleet of battleships, concentrate the fleet, and steer away from guerre de course. To take advantage of their free time in wake of the civil war, higher education centers were built like the Naval War College under the supervision of Luce. At the Naval War College a young Alfred Mahan, who was invited to speak, create his most revered works The Influence of History on Sea Power: 1660-1783.

The United Kingdom put its defense under review and decided to reduce the money burden their Royal Navy put on the British people (White paper, p. A-2). It was considered by their leadership that smaller platforms of ships like destroyers and frigates could handle littoral combat if needed. So, the United Kingdom decided to phase out the HMS Intrepid and the HMS Fearless (White Paper, pp.10-11). This of course didn’t work out well because the United Kingdom ended up going to war with Argentina in 1982. Through insurmountable odds, the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy, was able to piece its navy back together and make ships ready for one of the best maritime amphibious assaults ever conducted since World War

Alfred T. Mahan – Argued that the nation’s economic future hinged on gaining new markets abroad. In his view, the United States need a powerful navy to protect these markets from foreign rivals. Established “naval power=economic power”.