On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:45 AM, Lymon Twist <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
The Alphas were titanium hulled, they could dive deeper.

Yep. And the latest American subs are INCREDIBLY expensive. Might some of that expense be due to titanium hull construction?

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Richard Aiken


Design always has trade offs and I don't see how having a lot of extra crush depth increases your ability to fight well. My understanding of sub warfare is that it mostly happens at relatively shallow depths. I could of course not understand because I don't know much about it.

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Douglas E Knapp