[Camel Joe]

You’re going to have to build a lot of em then to get lucky, why not just outfit a nuke with batteries to quiet them down some??? Once you surface your stealth is gone and four weeks is a small window of opportunity in the larger scope of things. D=VT, 5 knots x 4 weeks is a small distance compared to the size of the seas. 3.1 mi/hr x 672hr = just under 2100 mi. Not much!!

[rottndog]

You’re going to have to build a lot of em then to get lucky, why not just outfit a nuke with batteries to quiet them down some???

That's the point...Diesels are much cheaper to build, thus you can build and deploy many more of them than you can nucs. BTW, the battery driven nuc has been tried. Didn't work.

[Camel Joe]

Darned Friday math D=VT, 5.75mi/hr x 672hr = 3864 mi and is still not much.

[fso301]

5 knots x 4 weeks is a small distance compared to the size of the seas. 3.1 mi/hr x 672hr = just under 2100 mi. Not much!!

The Taiwan Strait is only 100 miles wide. A dozen D/E's loitering about submerged in such a tight space just waiting for something to come sailing through could present a real problem in a conflict with Taiwan.