Ormata wrote:Idea:
Larger fishing trawler operating under no hull number, military ensign, or uniformed personnel which performs duties as a trawler aught. It would be armed with a pair of underwater 30in (Seawolf style) allowing for 21in torpedoes to 'swim out'. These torpedoes would be wire-guided only no sonar and not self-guided whatsoever. The trawler would use her commercial Furuno radar to guide the torpedoes to a close target (Within 10-ish nautical miles perhaps). If the plan went as it should, the target's navy (It's hopefully sunk) would assume a submarine attack.
And yes this is me trying to compensate for inferior conventional forces. This idea is linked to such as:
1) Use of commercial and civilian craft to lay mines (To be decided due to heavy submarine force)
2) Use of commercial and civilian craft to perform as AGIs
3) Use of the Klub K-style missile system with commercial box containers (To be decided due to massive political issues)
4) Heavy submarine to surface combatant ratio
The value of a Q-ship is that it is not expected. If you rely on them constantly, it will soon cease to be unexpected one way or another.