DEFENSEWATCH: Tomorrow's Submarine Fleet: The Non-nuclear Option

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Tomorrow's Submarine Fleet: The Non-nuclear Option

The U.S. Navy nuclear fast attack submarine fleet is the most awesome suite of weapons ever built, but gains in non-nuclear propulsion technology over the last few decades raise the question of whether we should augment our nuclear submarine fleet with equally effective and dramatically less expensive non-nuclear submarines. We currently float 55 fast attack submarines. Thirty are Los Angeles class and 23 are of the Improved Los Angeles class - quieter, with improved weapons, retractable bow... Sign in to see full entry.

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