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Just to humour you since you wanted to know about ASW exercises, maybe this will helpYou're guessing. i'm telling you with certainty. If you doubt my post's authenticity, look it up, its that simple. It was an actual exercise with actual ships. The word war games doesn't imply that no actual equipment is used. red flag is a war game. And of course you don't sink your own ships in exercises genius. How do you think ASW is practiced? By lobbing actual depth charges and torpedoes against YOUR OWN warships and personnel? Even in live-fire drills, no one actually sinks their active ships, maybe old hulks are turned into reefs but that's it.
If the exercise was soooo useless, why did it lead to the pivot of US navy focus towards the littoral combat zone? No one does drills and war games for fun Ray, they're expensive and very useful, if it was as you say: "Blueland always wins over the Redland", there would be no point to war games. How else would the US Navy have discovered their CBG's weakness against SSK's had they not borrowed a Swedish sub and carried out exercises against it? How would they have discovered the need for a Littoral combatant had they not had these very "small boat vs large surface combatant in the littoral" excercises?
MULTI-NATIONAL
SUBMARINE AND
ANTI-SUBMARINE
EXERCISE MANUAL
http://info.publicintelligence.net/NATO-SubmarineManual.pdf