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Originally Posted by TTM0TION
Just finished Blind Man's Bluff, so all the sub content is peaking my interest. That latest Virginia is something else.
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The activities covered in Blind Man's Bluff have been taking place for very many years and continue to this day.
One area of sensitive operations was that involving the USS Parche, a specially modified submarine designed for sea floor operations. The Parche is long gone, but the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23) carries on that mission. Very little of the boat's activities are known publicly. That's the thing about submarines; they can leave port, submerge and they are gone to parts unknown, only to return home quite a while later. Where did they go? What did they do? As the saying goes, they could tell us, but then they'd have to kill us.
Perhaps many years from now the story can be told in a sequel to Blind Man's Bluff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter
As discussed in the Wikipedia article, the Carter was specially modified as well; she is 100 feet longer than the other two SSNs of the Seawolf class.