AUSTERLITZ
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Haha, now you are trying to make me - an advocate of the conventional sub - into a stark defender of carriers. Nice try but: fail!
Do you grasp the fundamental difference between an exercise involving NATO members only (with sub not revealing themselves any more than they have to for their mission), and a Chinese sub popping up in a US carrier group (making itself known deliberately, rather than staying hidden).... ? The latter situation has little to do with capabilities but everything with power-politics and 'face'.
I understand,ofcourse the chinese wanted to 'send a message'.