Originally Posted by
WE Branch Fanatic
Not sure how you use a submarine as an escort*, but you do have a point.
*Coordinated ASW is the phrase you want. On which note, I wonder if any ASW related programmes are part of AUKUS? RAN ASW helicopters have taken part in UK/NATO exercises.
standard doctrine has US and UK carrier battle groups having an SSN as part of the escort, CSG 21 actually has artful, so naval news might be wrong on saying it was part of the carrier group because MOD lists it as artful and not astute
as to the ASW australia has been focusing on it, with the new M-60R's and 14 posiedens