[rahbert]

We lease the Swedish subs for ASW practice. Far cheaper
than owning. Plus the Swedes get to visit Kaliph.

[gridlock]

Of course, the US Navy has defensive responsibilities as well. We could use some nice quiet boats to patrol the waters off of San Diego, Pearl, Bremerton or Norfolk.

If you want to, paint them white with a big red stripe and call them part of the Coast Guard.

[Little Ray]

Cheaper, but I assume they’re manned by Swedes so the expertise goes home with the crew.
We should do what we can to keep the expertise in our own Navy. (And the subs and crews will be available for “special” missions...)

I hope we train against the these guys real hard...

[El Gato]

We lease the Swedish subs for ASW practice. Far cheaper than owning.

And a fairly recent development. A good one I think.

[sukhoi-30mki]

I believe that Sweden leased only one Gotland class sub(it only has 3) to the USN & that ended some time in the middle of last year.I don’t think you could call that regular practise given that the Swedes have their own requirements.