I would agree that diesel boats employed wildly differently to the nuke boats, the Kilo is very quiet it uses a 50hz floating bus system which is rafted so even the older boats are very quiet and now with the 636.3 and a 7 blade screw makes them more so (around 53db).
Conventional boats weakness is the fact it has to run the main engines, and its that point in which a SSN will sit and wait, the moment you click them on you increase the chances of detection and right then and there is when the ADCAP or spearfish is on its way.
In reality the Kilo is a force multiplier and while I can limitedly take on submarines its mainly designed for ASuW operations.
It is likely these boats will be forwardly deployed to choke points in the event of hostilities and become the first lime almost like a picket line.
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