Why Did America Stop Building the Best (and Most Dangerous Sub)

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Originally Posted by ikalugin

In an SSN you can always outrun those light UUVs, decoy them (remember small size = poor sensors and processing power) and so on and so forth. Under water you then get the comms problem, that is - it is hard to make a good and stealthy comm system for under water (though I guess there was decent work done on green lasers).

Mmm I dont know, if have to you pick up speed to out run something then its too late, you've been discovered and another can easily find you. As far as sensors go, they are not all that 'poor'. Commercial research firms already use magnetometers in their drones. I can only imagine but I'm sure U.S. and Russian navies are aware of this and have developed MAD designs that can easily fit in a suitable drone.