The latest Russian Navy submarine to be commissioned, B-274 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, in St. Petersburg, November 25 2019. Unlike U.S. Navy submarines she is conventionally powered. Russian Ministry of Defense
Forbes: The Latest Russian Submarine Is Unlike Any In U.S. Navy Service
There is an aspect of submarine operations where the Russian and U.S. Navies take fundamentally different stances. The latest Russian submarine to enter service, B-274 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, illustrates this. She is unlike anything in U.S. Navy service because she is conventionally powered, meaning that she does not have a nuclear reactor. For comparison the last time the U.S. Navy commissioned a non-nuclear submarine was in the 1950s.
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WNU Editor: Cheaper to build and maintain. That is why Russia is building them.
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They are also more silent, depend less on the complicated vibration/shock absorbing noise cancellation mechanics.
I believe a mix is good. Number will tell in choke points of SLOC and in coastal areas.
A farsighted renewables advocate, who was not anti-defense, would welcome the US Navy researching battery tech. To be sure the Navy is already researching this tech, but it would take on a different level of urgency is they has diesel electric subs and if they had the day to day working problems and knowledge of operating such a fleet.
Diesel Electric would serve the US well in the Caribbean basin in case of war.
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