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• s  defensive against enemy submarines

• The Kiev and Minsk are thus multipurpose warships: their principal mission seems to be antisubmarine warfare, but they and their aircraft can attack surface ships.
• The Navy argued hard for a subsonic nuclear turboprop seaplane for antisubmarine warfare and long-range radar-warning patrol.
• When Vice Admiral Charles Martell was assigned to head the Navy's lagging antisubmarine warfare program (ASW) in May 1964, the job looked even less appealing than battleship duty.

News & Articles

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• Whidbey’s patrol craft pays a visit
  RECORD STAFF The Navy’s newest land-based, long-range, antisubmarine warfare (ASW) patrol aircraft, the Boeing P-8A Poseidon, came to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station June 16 to conduct training and evaluation on new and extensively upgraded capabilities from the older aircraft, the P-3C Orion.
  July 9, 2013 - South Whidbey Record

Quotes

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• Evan Thomas in Boston Globe (registration)
  The Bush administration has provided $1.6 billion in foreign military financing and $5.56 billion in coalition support funds. The former funds to buy radars and antisubmarine planes to track the nonexistent al-Qaida air force and navy, and the... Gary Ackerman http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ackerman&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHKbWQOt8Zebb5Is3v3J-KVqixNRA Times of India http://www.google.com/url?q=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Why_terror_flourishes_in_Pakistan/articleshow/3326100.cms&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGmWUaxapyNUhD4hX9y4w0o0Yyhrg Aug 4, 2008 4376 6532 antisubmarine The Japanese did not think that the Americans had the stamina required for long stretches of submarine duty, so they neglected antisubmarine warfare -- with the result that American submarines were able to cut the vital supply lines between Japan...