Cold War possibilities
I served on a fleet snorkel boat out of Pearl in the mid-fifties which completed three "simulated war patrols" while I was aboard. There is no question in my mind that such experiences could provide an operational basis for the extention of SHIV. For example: recon (locating and tracking shipping - naval and merchant, port monitoring while evading the hunters, remaining undetected in the midst of naval manuevers - theirs not ours, ECM missions, and others. I know these missions don't require you to sink ships, but the excitement, the tension, the danger was very real. Another area that could be addressed in mods for any time period could be the everyday challenges of going to sea in a sub - failure of crucial equipment, surviving a typhoon (the smoke boats had to ride them out on the surface), fire, flooding, etc. All of this while trying to remain undetected. No "fire one", but an adventure nonetheless!
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