Reply #12: Nowadays, you're right, they're not intended to attack shipping [View All]

[bushmeister0]

like they were originally created for. Nowadays, they're intended to deliver several super-sonic SLICBMs with ten 100kt warheads to a certain north-eastern European capital, which will remain unnamed(hence the stealth).

Since that particualar country is no longer a threat to us, or to Britian or France, they're mission is outmoded, expensive and potentially dangerous. If there had been a Kursk-type of incident at the bottom of the Atlantic, we'd all be wondering about how many of those 48 or so warheads and two nuclear reactors were leaking radiation.

If these subs can't see what's right in front of them, and therefore constantly in danger of crashing into each other, I'd say we need to get them out of the oceans before something really bad happens.