We should be doing that. My nightmare is that swarms of cheap quiet diesels subs can take out super expensive US Navy ships. Functioning like an RPG, meaning creating lots of expensive damage at a low cost. RPGs and anti-tank rockets have neutralized Israel's armor, neutralized that costly advantage. Small diesel subs can wreck our "armor" of the high seas, our aircraft carriers
Israeli armor now has a much harder time projecting and so will our heavily armored and heavily protected Navy ships
These Nuke boats will be deploying underwater RPV's to hunt mines & presumably diesel SSK's. Coordinating the attack of diesel SSK's would be difficult given current technology. German & US wolfpack attacks relied on the subs communicating with eachother & a central command via surface radio.
“Functioning like an RPG, meaning creating lots of expensive damage at a low cost. RPGs and anti-tank rockets have neutralized Israel’s armor, neutralized that costly advantage. Small diesel subs can wreck our “armor” of the high seas, our aircraft carriers”
Mega bump. How many BILLIONS of dollars is being pumped into the CVN Jerry Ford? From the looks of this article it’ll be cost effective for China to simply throw a dozen disel’s her way with disasterous results on our end. And then there’s the worry over PLA cruise missiles which can be manufactured for a pittance and which it seems we have no defense against!