I am quite enjoying the irony of members of the RAF, who generally decry for example the Army's lack of aviation awareness, holding forth on Naval matters about which they know little.
Do you imagine that whilst the RAF has moved from Phantoms to Typhoon, the RN has stayed still?
Our ships are very quiet (we have stealth too!)
Our sonars are very good.
The best defence against submarines has always been another submarine.
We have some of the best kit and people in that department.
If the Russians, Americans, Dutch or Germans or a handful of others come for us, then yes they have an even chance.
There is always the lucky shot from an amateur with a purchased diesel electric, but it is much the same as North Korea buying a Su27 and having a go.
It takes more than just the kit to make any weapon effective, and very few nations are competent.
People have brought up nuclear depth charges/torpedoes on here before as if they are a devastating weapon.
If you had ever had to do the bucket of sunshine training, you would know just how astonishingly miniscule is the kill radius of these weapons.
Navaleye
Even when we had "other assets", they still couldn't get to the fleet when we needed them in '82
The SKASAC may be slow making it a bit crap at supporting attacks, but it will always be around for defense, and who says it can't go above 10000ft?
Nothing to stop a Seaking with Carson fit and Oxy going a long way up.