[rjsw]

> in 2006 china managed to tail a US aircraft carrier and emerge in torpedo range with a Song 039 type submarine, a generation behind the US, which was previously thought incapable of such an operation.

The alternative version of that story is that the Carrier Group commander was quietly commended for not giving away how far out they detected the submarine.

[sanguy]

The extended alternate version is that the SSN Jimmy Carter had been ghosting the Song 039 for <<undisclosed>> days.

[rjsw]

I thought that every carrier group had at least one SSN, using the Jimmy Carter for this kind of thing seems strange.

[sanguy]

Not strange considering where and what the Jimmy is used for.