Machinery on the interior is coated with rubber acoustic-deadening buffers to minimize detectability by sonar. Its hull benefits from sonar-resistant coatings, while the tower is made of radar-absorbent materials. It mounts twenty-seven electromagnets designed to counteract its magnetic signature to Magnetic Anomaly Detectors. The Gotland class does possess many other features that make it adept at evading detection. The Stirling-powered Gotland runs more quietly than even a nuclear-powered sub, which must employ noise-producing coolant pumps in their reactors. A conventional diesel engine is used for operation on the surface or while employing the snorkel. With the Stirling, a Gotland-class submarine can remain undersea for up to two weeks sustaining an average speed of six miles per hour-or it can expend its battery power to surge up to twenty-three miles per hour. Navy decommissioned its last diesel submarine in 1990.
How was the Gotland able to evade the Reagan’s elaborate antisubmarine defenses involving multiple ships and aircraft employing a multitude of sensors? And even more importantly, how was a relatively cheap submarine costing around $100 million-roughly the cost of a single F-35 stealth fighter today-able to accomplish that? After all, the U.S. antisubmarine specialists were “demoralized” by the experience. Naval analyst Norman Polmar said the Gotland “ran rings” around the American carrier task force.
This outcome was replicated time and time again over two years of war games, with opposing destroyers and nuclear attack submarines succumbing to the stealthy Swedish sub. Yet despite making multiple attacks runs on the Reagan, the Gotland was never detected.
She is based in southern California and manages relationships and fosters regenerative partnerships, globally.Fortunately, this did not occur in actual combat, but was simulated as part of a war game pitting a carrier task force including numerous antisubmarine escorts against HSMS Gotland, a small Swedish diesel-powered submarine displacing 1,600 tons.
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