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Submarines are the greatest threat to offensive CVSG (carrier strike group) operations. The stealth of modern submarines (anechoic coatings, sound-damping equipment mountings, hydrodynamic design, etc.), can allow a submarine to get extremely close to an HVU target. The move towards shallow-water operations has greatly increased this threat. The threat is such that even the suspicion of the presence of a submarine means a fleet must commit resources to removing it, as the possible consequences of an undetected submarine are too serious to ignore. In most cases submarines have an upper hand in any naval combat.
The vulnerability of carrier strike groups to diesel-electric submarines owned by many smaller naval forces has been proven by the German U24 of the conventional 206 class which in 2001 "sank" USS Enterprise during the exercise JTFEX 01-2 in the Caribbean Sea by firing flares and taking a photograph through its periscope[1] or the Swedish Gotland which managed the same feat in 2006 during JTFEX 06-2 by penetrating the defensive measures of Carrier Strike Group 7 undetected and snap several pictures of USS Ronald Reagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Carrier_Group_tactics
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