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Originally Posted by fatty
That's a really cool figure but I think it's a little misleading. It makes no distinction about quality or capability of subs beyond nuclear/non-nuclear; this is probably not so important because I think most nations that have been operating noisy unsafe tubs (China is coming to mind) have been learning a lot. Still, the numbers only tell part of the story.
Re: the Kilo - I think 12.5 is what they meant to put. Most of the websites out there peg the Kilo's surface speed at somewhere around that figure. They do go faster underwater.
Where are the U.S.'s planned subs?
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US submarines spell quality to me ... of course I am a little prejudice, but I think our country has a higher standard of living to account for that fact.
They just authorized and bumped the ship building capability of US nuclear submarines up to two a year. That comes to around 4.5 billion dollars for two of them. The only problem is that they are putting them out of service faster than they are in service.
That article DAB has sure would make a nice start for a sub sim even if it doesn't represent a war, yet.