The USN ASW ships need a big upgrade, the perry FFG for example is totaly useless in defence of itself.
The USN are no way masters of submarine warfare, if they were then why does the USN insist that its officers are sent on the BRITISH training scheme?
The seawolf for cost and power yeah is expencive but the papa when built cost just under what the seawolf does today.
The gotland was in open ocean when on training exercises it also does littoral exercises its basicaly just to get the USN up to speed with ASW
And again if the USN are masters in ASW why would they lease a forign submarine for a whole year and more ? (note they got thier arses kicked quite a few times)
The USN although has good platforms also has some realy bad ones and some well stone age ones.
In neptune warrior the seawolf was killed 4 times within 36 hours by a german submarine, this year they have forced the germans to put noise makers on thier subs because they are just too quiet.
The Seawolf is a excellent platform but the seawolf herself is now nearing 10 years old, the traffies are a good 15 or more, the astute are thee equivelent to the virginia.
During the exercises i dont think any sub acctualy need alot of speed, so i doubt it would be going that fast and i also doubt it had any noise makers on it at all.
Seawolf has 8 21 inch torpedo tubes for comparision the akula has 14 torpedo tubes also has AASROC missiles if you mean engine power then yeh seawolf will win also i think on the speed catagory too seawolf is a 37 knotter the akula only 35knots.
The seawolf is an excellent submarine its got everything any submarineer ever dreams of and yes it is one of thee best subs in the world.
Did you know that BAe and some other british companies acctualy make parts for US submarines? including parts for SONAR systems ?
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