I saw an interview with an ex Admiral who said for the price we paid for the subs the could have bought new, nuclear powered state of the art subs from either Germany or Ausralia who apparently have a sub plant going. With what it has ended up costing us with repaira and all he said we could have built them ourselves at one of our shipyards. Very sad, the maritimes could have used the work. I think there must have been a lot of political pressure for this deal to through, and still more for us not to return these garbage heaps after so much truoble and a sailor's death so soon after delivery. I say send them back, take the loss and give our sailors equipment that won't kill them.