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(U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Andrew C. Lennon)
In exercise Dynamic Manta, that we're
hosting right now in the central

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Mediterranean Sea, we're going to be
practicing finding submarines using a

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task group consisting of ships,
fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and

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other submarines.

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Submarines have a wide variety of
capabilities: The ability to launch

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missiles that can threaten our
population centers, critical

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infrastructures, and our nations. So, it's
very important for NATO to understand

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where adversaries' submarines are.
It's a very asymmetric problem. In other

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words, it often takes several assets just
to track one submarine.