Ohio-class subs could be unfit underwater in a decade, STRATCOM warns

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Ohio-class subs could be unfit underwater in a decade, STRATCOM warns

By: Leo Shane III, April 4, 2017
WASHINGTON — Navy officials may have as little as a decade before their Ohio-class submarine fleet won’t dive beneath the waves anymore, the head of U.S. Strategic Command warned lawmakers on Tuesday.

“Each submarine is built to go down, under pressure, a certain number of times. Once you reach the end of life, you can't go down any more,” said Air Force Gen. John Hyten, STRATCOM commander, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. “And a submarine on the top of the water is not an effective deterrent.”

http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/ohio-class-submarines-useless-decade-stratcom

[Smokin Joe]

I think what he meant is that they'll go down, they just won't come back up. A lack of parity in those events is an undesirable outcome.

[GtHawk]

“Each submarine is built to go down, under pressure, a certain number of times. Once you reach the end of life, you can't go down any more,” said Air Force Gen. John Hyten, STRATCOM commander, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

I don't mean to quibble with the good General, but surely the issue is not with the submarine being able to go down, but with it's ability to surface again.