Are Submarines About to Become Obsolete?

[Onkel Neal]

What would happen if U.S. nuclear attack submarines—some of the most sophisticated and expensive American weapons of war—suddenly became obsolete? Imagine a scenario where these important systems became the hunted instead of the hunter, or just as technologically backward as the massive battleships of years past. Think that sounds completely insane? If advances in big data and new detection methods fuse with the anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) ambitions of nations like China and Russia, naval planners around the world might have to go back to the drawing board.

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Hard to imagine, but with the advances in drone technology.... picture a dozen drone torpedoes swarming a $3 billion dollar Fast Attack....