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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]TomWilm
(1,832 posts)24. The most expensive US sub ever, and only three Seawolf was build ...
Seawolf was projected to be the most expensive ever built, with a total program cost for 12 submarines estimated in 1991 at $33.6 billion in current dollars. As many as 29 submarines were planned. The Navy's plans for Seawolf would have resulted in spending 25 percent of the Navy's shipbuilding budget on a ship that was designed for threats that vanished with the end of the Cold War.
Two Seawolf Class submarines were authorized by Congress, which in 1995 agreed to terminate the program at three boats. President Clinton endorsed the construction of SSN-23 as the most cost- effective method of retaining the vitality of the submarine industrial base while bridging the gap to the future New Attack Submarine. The Fiscal Year 1998 $153.4 million budget request was the final increment of funding required for the third SEAWOLF to complete the program.
https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/ship/ssn-21.htm
Two Seawolf Class submarines were authorized by Congress, which in 1995 agreed to terminate the program at three boats. President Clinton endorsed the construction of SSN-23 as the most cost- effective method of retaining the vitality of the submarine industrial base while bridging the gap to the future New Attack Submarine. The Fiscal Year 1998 $153.4 million budget request was the final increment of funding required for the third SEAWOLF to complete the program.
https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/ship/ssn-21.htm
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I think that's very unlikely. The sub's sonar would have detected anything that large.
Martin68
Oct 2021
#26
Thus, unlikely to be an enemy vessel. Large marine life or semi-submerged flotsam might be more
Martin68
Oct 2021
#34
This had nothing to do with "demonstrating military prowess." What gave anyone that idea?
Martin68
Oct 2021
#35
What does that mean? Why would they want steel samples, please (or was it a joke?)
NullTuples
Oct 2021
#20
Sometimes a chunk of the other submarines steel would be embedded in our sub after a collision.
NutmegYankee
Oct 2021
#21
I got it. USO. Unidentified Submerged Object, it was aliens, I knew it!
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Oct 2021
#33