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Originally Posted by Oberon
Seems a bit overkill, but I guess that's how things are going now. Guess the US will have to re-activate the Neutron bombs. |
As a strategic platform - it is a decent deterent, but in my opinion it's tactical applications are more valuable.
p.s. we have a consistent effort to introduce various non TT launched UUVs onto our submarines. Currently:
- we have Oscar-II->Oscar-III refits which would receive non autonomous UUVs.
- experimental Oscar-II refit to house various UUVs, including Status-6.
- purpose built Status-6 carriers (Khabarovsk class).
- future Husky class multirole SSNs/SSGNs which would also carry various UUVs.
Some of the UUV systems, such as the ones selected for the Oscar-III configuration are already quite mature.
Makes me wonder how RN and other second class Navies are doing on UUV front.