A Swedish Gotland-Class Diesel Submarine Worth About $100,000,000 Slipped Past an Entire US Navy Carrier Group. The $6,000,000,000 Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Ronald Reagan was ‘Sunk’.

A Swedish Gotland-Class Diesel Submarine Worth About $100,000,000 Slipped Past an Entire US Navy Carrier Group. The $6,000,000,000 Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Ronald Reagan was ‘Sunk’.

The familiar version is that the US Navy was so embarrassed when a Swedish submarine reached a firing position on USS Ronald Reagan that it leased the boat to learn how to hunt it. The chronology says otherwise. The United States initiated the arrangement in 2004, signed the training agreement on 21 March 2005, and Gotland arrived in San Diego on 27 June — months before the December exercise. The lease is why the simulated kill happened, not the…