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Originally Posted by wet dog
What's cheaper to manage, (2) at 180 days or (3) at 121 days at sea, or (1) per year?
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1 for five years would be cheapest.
All kidding aside it gets into stretching the force. In the future will some patrols be canceled because the required boat is in maintenance?
A lot of countries are upgrading their diesel sub force.
Gets into the funding we were talking about for aircraft.
Should we go back to smaller diesel boats for routine stuff and save the nukes for the high speed stuff?
Look at all the money we are saving by giving space to the Chicoms.
One of these days they might have a space station armed with nukes parked over Iowa.