Any opinions?

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Im sure you wont find any lack of opinions around here

Personally I say 'who knows'

But it looks like normal wear and tear to me. Since it is around ALL of the tubes evidently.

Well I looked at other pix of subs, of the same class, returning from long deployments and haven't seen rust isolated around the VL tubes before.

One example.... six month deployment.
http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=73215