Talk:Knox-class frigate/@comment-2001:5B0:51C7:6EF0:0:FF:FEC7:80BF-20180922040738

Having served on FF-1084 as a Sonar Technician for 4 years I wish to tell you that the comment "the ships themselves were basically incapable of combating a modern submarine target," is completely false and points out your lack of understanding of modern submarine warfare. These shipe were not designed to go out in the open ocean and run down submarines, they were designed to defend either an area, choke point ot a capital ship like a carrier or amphibious ship. They tactics used were to sprint and drift to reduce own ships noise. Submarines had a very hard time detacting the Knox class at slow speeds due to their quiet design and Prairie/Masker systems installed. I prevented many submarines from approaching our carrier that we were protecting at very long ranges. We typically operated from 30 to 50 miles outside the outer screen as a scout or outrider. The area we were in was quiet and away from the thundering herd of a carrier screen. we also made 31-32 knots easily without resorting to the war burners in our boilers. We expected to get 4-6 knots more with the war burners in, the trade off was excessive fuel use. The U.S. Navy maligned the ships in an effort to sandbag the Soviets in to believing they were less capable than they were. Soviet submarines would approach the carrier screen and be unaware we had detected them at long range and marked them with either our SH-2 Seasprite or a carrier SH-3 Helo. Our preferef method of target prosecution was always to send out a Helo. The only defeciency was a lack of surface to air missile system, BPDMS was a poor substitute for a Standard missile launcher.