Rashid Mahmood
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The actual details of such operations will never be released to the media, as it is classified information.
The information released to the media was enough, but as usual the media wants to make a story out of an outline and try to connect the dots, but as they don't understand such operations, they fabricate, assume and speculate to make things more confusing.
Clandestine sub opns are conducted by all navies to gather intelligence of their adversary. This has been done since WW2. We do the same against each other all the time.
In this case this unlucky CO, was caught while trying to enter its patrol area beforehand and then was tracked by the PN for some time with active and passive sensors. The sub was then told that we are "on top" and it eventually had to come to PD to run diesels.
When a sub exposes her position, it's the end of her mission.
The CO's career may have ended after his lapse.
The information released to the media was enough, but as usual the media wants to make a story out of an outline and try to connect the dots, but as they don't understand such operations, they fabricate, assume and speculate to make things more confusing.
Clandestine sub opns are conducted by all navies to gather intelligence of their adversary. This has been done since WW2. We do the same against each other all the time.
In this case this unlucky CO, was caught while trying to enter its patrol area beforehand and then was tracked by the PN for some time with active and passive sensors. The sub was then told that we are "on top" and it eventually had to come to PD to run diesels.
When a sub exposes her position, it's the end of her mission.
The CO's career may have ended after his lapse.