March 4, 2020
The Navy's Seawolf Submarine Was The World's Greatest For One Reason
Why did the Navy stop building them?
by Sebastien Roblin
Key point: The U.S. Navy reportedly sees the beefier, more heavily armed characteristics of the Seawolf as a model for its next SSN(X) submarine—even if it comes at a similar cost of $5.5 billion per submarine.
Late in the 1950s, the Soviet Navy’s nuclear-powered submarines—starting with the November-class attack submarine—could dive twice as deep as most of their American counterparts and often had higher maximum speed. But they had a conspicuous flaw: they were a lot noisier.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/navys-seawolf-submarine-was-worlds-greatest-one-reason-129247
