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An attack submarine or hunter-killer submarine is a submarine specifically designed for the purpose of attacking and sinking other submarines, surface combatants and merchant vessels. In the Soviet and Russian navies they were and are called "multi-purpose submarines". [ 1 ]
A hunter-killer group would typically be formed around an escort carrier to provide aerial reconnaissance and air cover, with a number of corvettes, destroyers, destroyer escorts, frigates, and/or United States Coast Guard Cutters armed with depth charges and Hedgehog anti-submarine mortars.
Nets were also deployed across the mouth of a harbour or naval base to stop submarines entering or to stop torpedoes of the Whitehead type fired against ships. British warships were fitted with a ram with which to sink submarines, and U-15 was thus sunk in August 1914. [11] [10]
Hunter-killer team, a team that separates the tasks of "hunting" and "killing" to two or more individuals; Hunter-killer armored-vehicle team, scout vehicles and tanks operating in concert as "hunters" and "killers" Hunter-killer sight, a vehicle commander's sight, independent of the gunner's sight; Attack submarine or hunter-killer submarine
These operations ended 5 March 1950 as Grouper entered the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for conversion under project SCB 58 to the Navy's first "hunter-killer submarine". Her classification was changed to SSK-214 on 2 January 1951.
She was the flagship of Task Group 21.14 (TG 21.14), a hunter-killer group formed to destroy German submarines in the North Atlantic. In 1964, while operating as an aircraft ferry, Card was sunk with explosives planted by two Viet Cong commandos in the Harbor of Saigon , South Vietnam.
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HMS Triumph is a Trafalgar-class nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy and was the seventh and final boat of her class. She is the nineteenth nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine built for the Royal Navy. Triumph is the tenth vessel, and the second submarine, to bear the name.