blackn1ght

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China could sink all US carriers in 20 minutes, Pentagon chief warns in c/world@lemmy.world
[โ€“] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Well in my mind few years ago was 1999...

Seriously though I thought this only happened within the last 10 years, TIL.

China could sink all US carriers in 20 minutes, Pentagon chief warns in c/world@lemmy.world
[โ€“] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago (8 children)

During some war games a few years ago, the Dutch Navy managed to score a hit against a US Navy carrier using a diesel sub.

Like someone else said here, carriers are big, slow targets, it's not impossible for something to sneak past and sink them.