Here is a not surprising report from a recent NATO war game:
In a War Game NATO of Florida, there has been an embarrassing incident: A simulation showed that a single enemy submarine was able to sink the US aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt along with its escort. The US Navy wanted to keep the incident secret - but the French, who had played the enemy submarine, were too proud of the unexpected military success [to keep quiet about it].
http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/03/07/peinliches-war-game-der-nato-us-flugzeugtraeger-gegen-u-boot-chancenlos/
[You may have to translate from the original German to read this report.]
In a former life, I was officer of the deck on a nuclear submarine. In the middle of the night, I cleared baffles and brought the ship to periscope depth and immediately saw a long string of red lights which I soon realized was on an aircraft carrier flight deck. Neither of us had been aware of the other's presence, and the carrier still did not know I was there. Had we been in a shooting war, I could easily have sunk that carrier.
Underwater sound conditions can allow you to hear all the way across an ocean, or they can shield your noise from a vessel right next to you. It's quite possible that a quiet sub could sink a carrier, and those Navy dudes better keep that in mind as they plan to go up against Russia, China, or even Iran.
We did, after all, sell Iran some of our diesel subs ... and those diesel boats can be very quiet.
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