Submarines are poised to take on a major role in strike warfare, but is that a good idea?

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Submarines are poised to take on a major role in strike warfare, but is that a good idea?
By: David B. Larter   October 28
 
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is preparing to ink one of the largest contracts in its history with General Dynamics Electric Boat and the firm’s partner shipyard Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News that will make the new generation of attack submarines a major force in strike warfare.

The Block V Virginia contract is expected to produce 11 boats with eight Virginia Payload Modules, and will triple the Virginia’s Tomahawk Land Attack Missile capacity to 40 missiles per hull. Experts say that the new Virginia Payload Module will also be large enough to accommodate boost-glide hypersonic missiles like those the Navy is developing with the Army.

But the logic for the Virginia Payload Module has always been about replacing the Ohio-class guided missile submarines retiring in the 2020s. Because submarines have been the Navy’s go-to asset to penetrate areas threated by Chinese and Russian surface-to-surface and anti-ship missiles, attack submarines loaded with strike missiles would have to be the ones to get close enough to be able to launch land-attack strikes.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2019/10/28/submarines-are-poised-to-take-on-a-major-role-in-strike-warfare-but-is-that-a-good-idea/

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In the 70s the Russians had satellites that could pick up any surface ship within 6 miles of it's exact location.  I would venture today it can not only get the exact position but can anticipate it's course.  This makes the surface Navy about useless in a major conflict.  Submarines are a different animal.  My sister-in-laws brother flew P3s hunting submarines and has said Russian submarines are easy to detect because they make so much noise while American subs are virtually impossible to find because they are so quiet.  From those two aspects alone it would seem a good idea.