Event Brief
Swedish Gotland submarine “sank” US Nimitz-class carrier
By The BriefBrief · Sources (1)
Filed: Aug 28, 2026 at 8:00 PM ET
Summary: A Swedish HSwMS Gotland diesel-electric submarine conducted exercises in which it “sank” a $6.2 billion US aircraft carrier using simulated torpedoes. The article says the submarine slipped through a screen of US ships and entered an exclusion zone off California during a December 2005 exercise involving USS Ronald Reagan.
WHO: HSwMS Gotland submarine (Sweden) and the US Navy
WHAT: A Swedish submarine exercise used simulated torpedoes to “sink” a US aircraft carrier during an anti-submarine scenario.
WHEN: Aug 28, 2026
WHERE: Off the coast of California
WHY: The exercise was intended to test how vulnerable modern US aircraft carriers are to submarine threats.
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