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Old 10-28-2011, 08:56 PM   #31
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I don't know why its so hard to understand the need for nuclear powered subs.

The subs we have now have cost over $1 billion just to repair. That money would have been better spent in purchasing new ones.

Beyond that, they give us a MUCH greater ability to control our interests everywhere in the world.
Its a shame what happened to those boats. They really are a pretty good concept.

Most of the difficulty happened because they sat in storage for so long before we claimed them.

But diesel electric boats really aren't the best choice for a nation with an arctic coast line to monitor.

If we were ever to have purchased nuclear subs, it was back in the 80's when Mulrooney was in power and promised them and we were on the verge of mothballing the really terrible Oberon class boats.
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