I think maybe this video could be important.  Seems to me it potentially shows a certain one-sidedness to NATO exercises.  When do we get to see some of an American sub exercising with a French Burke-equivalent while it is replenishing underway?

 

Off doing a real mission instead of sailing past a pair of allied ships.

 

Herald :
""Fixed the reactor on the Amethyst yet?""

This Amethyst Sub seems combat ready and just proved it , don 't you think ?

Nope. I see a standard periscope sighting taken . Nothing seen indicates anything else.

Herald

From 5000m away .

h*tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwlsNJhheuQ&feature=related

Cheers .

Herald , if we had reactor problem , do you think that our Subs would be at sea ?
I mean , come on , a reactor problem is a huge problem ! We don 't play around with the lives of our submariners .
We 're not Russian ...

Nichevo :
""BW, with the best will in the world, how were we to stop you?  Sink you? 
Should we do that next time?""

lol ! Well , that was an exercise Nichevo . We don 't sink each other in exercise but the USN should have been able to protect the Arleigh because it was supposed to be a serious drill , don 't you think ?
We came as close at 5000m when the 2 ships where sitting ducks , is that serious ???

Cheers .

No, that's not serious.  I couldn't give a sh!t if a French submarine can get within 5000m, or 5m, of an American ship--unless France is planning on building one of those subs for someone we might actually fight someday, like maybe China or Iran.  Why do you?

 

 

Herald , if we had reactor problem , do you think that our Subs would be at sea ?
I mean , come on , a reactor problem is a huge problem ! We don 't play around with the lives of our submariners .
We 're not Russian ...

No, you are worse. The same reactors that were found wanting in the Chuckles de Gaulle (too little shielding) are the ones you use in your subs. The Marine has done NOTHING to mitigate them in the subs. [They can't] At least these days the Russians try to mitigate their own fiascoes with better shielding. 

Nichevo :
""BW, with the best will in the world, how were we to stop you?  Sink you? 
Should we do that next time?""

lol ! Well , that was an exercise Nichevo . We don 't sink each other in exercise but the USN should have been able to protect the Arleigh because it was supposed to be a serious drill , don 't you think ?
We came as close at 5000m when the 2 ships where sitting ducks , is that serious ???

We don't know the parameters of the exercise, cretin. The Amythyst may have been a bodyguard and just running drills to check  mechanical operations. We zero on you  all the time. You make NICE stand-ins for the Pak and PRC bandit scum.

Herald