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Originally Posted by Oberon
They could possibly use the Vanguard once the Dreadnaught (I still prefer the name 'Successor', Dreadnaught should be used for a surface vessel imho) class is introduced, but I doubt it. If anything is going to get retrofitted it'd be something like a small coastal patrol boat.
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Don't you plan to retire the V-class boats?
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Originally Posted by Oberon
By the way, that '100 megaton' weapon? Actually more likely to be a 10 megaton device:
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This is a miniature nuclear powered submarine after all, with only 4-6 carried per mothersub. The UUV is sufficiently larget to carry a number payloads - for example torpedoes (it can carry full size heavyweight ones) or the 100mt class physics package. The physics package is salted and is desighned to deny large coastal areas to an adversary for extended periods of time via fallout.
Tsunami effect, while it was studied back in the 60s, is not the primary intent behind this desighn.