Those "Superior" Conventional Subs

clipped from fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com This is a critical mission for the toy. It helps the sub monitor a contact, without compromising the patrol mission of the sub, and with little risk of detection or confrontation with the eager to kill Iranian boat. Meanwhile, Hawaii might catch a whiff of another submarine lurking along the busy oil tanker routes in and out of the gulf. This is one reason why new US (and British) SSNs are so volumetrically large. They need the space to host these Unmanned and Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicles. And space is something in very short supply aboard the "superior" conventional submarines.