Supposedly a Chinese submarine snuck up on one of our aircraft carriers in the middle of a military exercise. However, if this was really true why wouldn’t we pretend we knew about it and did nothing? After all we wouldn’t want to signal to China that our sensors weren’t any better. On the other hand if we had detected it what would we have done about it? Surely we weren’t going to sink the Chinese submarine but we might very well want to pretend that we didn’t see it.

Then again pride plays into it on our side just as it does theres and for the conspiracy theorists out there this is a wonderful ploy to increase support for spending on new weapons systems or sonar tests (I wonder if they were using the whale killing sonar at the time). In short this sort of story, without much more background information, tells us absolutely nothing even if it is kinda amusing.