What is being missed is that the two different platforms fulfill different missions, and especially in the case of the US the requirements we have of our submarines are a lot different than the requirements Japan or Pakistan have for theirs.
We need those legs and that speed to do what we need to do and get where we need to go. Considering where warfare is moving, once you get a submarine to a certain level of quiet it's debateable whether it's worthwhile to go any further now.
We live in brown water. The cold war is over, and so are cold war submarine realities.
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