Modern Submarine Missions
A modern submarine is a multi-role platform. It can conduct both overt and covert operations. In peacetime it can act as a deterrent as well as for surveillance operations and information gathering.
In wartime a submarine can carry out a number of missions including:
- Surveillance and information gathering
- Communication of data
- Landing of special operations forces
- Attack of land targets (first cruise missile fired from sub, Gulf War, USS Louisville, Jan 1991)
- Protection of task forces and merchant shipping
- Denial of sea areas to an enemy
The United State Navy says, "Submarines require no vulnerable underway logistics chain nor depend on mutual defense from other platforms for survivability."
Read more about this topic: Submarine Warfare
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