Submarine designed to operate in coordination with other vessels of a battle fleet
Gato class fleet submarine USS Wahoo
A fleet submarine is a submarine with the speed, range, and endurance to operate as part of a navy's battle fleet. Examples of fleet submarines are the British First World War era K class and the American World War II era Gato class.
The term has survived in Britain to refer to modern nuclear-powered attack submarines. In the United States Navy, the term came to be used primarily for the long-range submarines that served in World War II.
A fleetsubmarine is a submarine with the speed, range, and endurance to operate as part of a navy's battle fleet. Examples of fleetsubmarines are the...
missile submarine is a submarine capable of deploying submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) with nuclear warheads. These submarines became a...
generally required to operate undetected. The service operates six fleetsubmarines (SSNs), of the Trafalgar and Astute classes (with two further Astute-class...
supply submarines and long-range fleetsubmarines. They also had submarines with the highest submerged speeds during World War II (I-201-class submarines) and...
known as the Red Banner Northern Fleet. During the Soviet era the Northern Fleet operated more than 200 submarines, ranging from diesel-electric to nuclear-powered...
REESTABLISHES SUBMARINE SQUADRON EIGHT". Commander, Submarine Force Atlantic. "Administrative Order of Battle: Asiatic FleetSubmarines 8 December 1941"...
indicated some hardened targets like submarine pens were impervious to bombs of less than 12,000 pounds (5,400 kg). The fleet carriers of World War II were incapable...
Fleet on 24 December 1955. In Liepāja the Baltic Fleet's 14th submarine squadron, call sign "Kompleks" ("Комплекс") was stationed with 16 submarines (613...
supply submarines and long-range fleetsubmarines. They also had submarines with the highest submerged speeds (I-201-class submarines) and submarines that...
transport docks) and ten are nuclear-powered submarines (four ballistic missile submarines and six fleetsubmarines). In addition the Navy possesses seven mine...
with this in mind. Japan's Ko-hyoteki-class submarines were originally designed to take part in decisive fleet actions. However, as circumstances changed...
types of submarines in the United States Navy: ballistic missile submarines, attack submarines, and cruise missile submarines. All submarines currently...
permanent and temporary submarine bases around the world to maintain its fleet of submarines and serve the needs of the crews. Submarine bases are military...
attacks". During World War II, submarines that fulfilled the offensive surface attack role were termed fleetsubmarines in the U.S. Navy and "ocean-going"...
destroyers, and a few submarines. Despite this state of affairs, the Baltic Fleet remained a significant naval formation, and the Black Sea Fleet also provided...
decline culminated in the loss of the Oscar II-class submarine Kursk during the Northern Fleet summer exercise that was intended to back up the publication...
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