NEWTOWN, Conn. | Forecast International’s “The Market for Submarines” analysis projects that 111 submarines worth $106.7 billion will be produced from 2011-2020. The average value of these submarines will be $960 million, an indicator of the growing complexity of the modern submarine and the increasing use of air-independent propulsion, both of which add substantially to the cost of diesel-electric boats.
111 additional in just 9 years! Not too many then to threaten a carrier, one torp and goodbye "moveable airfield" a lot of resource concentrated in a very small space. Now does that sound sensible? Didn't we learn that lesson about dispering your assets. I guess the Navy is totally confident in its ASW assets being 100% effective, logically it seems close to madness!
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