Ah ha, so given that the command is unwilling to risk a Suel Canal transit the sub must still round the African tip.
So the original question still remains. Lets say that the two subs are the USS Virginia homeported on the USA east coast and the other is the USS Texas homeported at Hawaii. The advanced optics and spy gear on the subs is desperatedly needed for some urgent ELINT and only these two subs exist that can provide the necessary capability, needed ASAP. The Suel canal is not an option because SubCommand does not wish to risk the surface transiet...
... who will get there first, the Hawaii based USS Texas or the East Coast based USS Virginia?
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