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34. All surface ships are targets, now more than ever.

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 10:21 PM

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The world’s militaries are failing to learn from the lessons of the Malvinas (Falklands) war, and from the current Ukraine conflict.

Submariner boasting aside, in the past couple of years we have seen how a few tens of thousands dollars worth of drones can destroy warships that cost in the 100s of millions. In the Falklands (about 40 years ago) Great Britain learned that a minor military power (Argentina) could destroy the UK’s best ships.* The only reason they didn’t lose their carrier to an (undetected) Argentinian submarine was because of a torpedo tube malfunction.

Submarines are not quite obsolete yet, but it is only a matter of time before underwater drone technology catches up.

*To be accurate , part of the reason for the UK’s losses were due to completely idiotic communication procedures that required all ships to simultaneously turn off their early warning radars in order to transmit/receive message traffic. Still, everyone was surprised how effective land based anti-ship missiles were.

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