Replacing the Subs

[Czech_pivo]

I wonder how different the reaction to the sub split fleet would be if we had already awarded for 8x 212's for the traditional SSK role, scheduled to come online between 2034 and 2042, and the "split" was an operationally driven decision to get 4x KSIII's between 2032 and 2035 in order to:

• get more boats in the water/ retire the Victoria's faster
• obtain the KSIII with it's vertical launch tubes as a distinct strategic capability for Arctic sovereignty, a quasi "Boomer"

Noah talked about the need for 4 sub maintenance facilities simply due to the fact that the German sub uses non-magnetic steel and the SK one does. According to him you cannot place 1 sub type in the facility of the other without serious implications to the viability of the non-magnetic subs. This makes it basically a non-starter.

 

[IKnowNothing]

Noah talked about the need for 4 sub maintenance facilities simply due to the fact that the German sub uses non-magnetic steel and the SK one does. According to him you cannot place 1 sub type in the facility of the other without serious implications to the viability of the non-magnetic subs. This makes it basically a non-starter.

Except in the given scenario it wouldn't be a non-starter, it would be a 3rd maintenance facility as an expensive and inconvenient accepted cost of 4 more boats, much much earlier, with a novel land and long range strike capability.

 

[OldSolduer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2029564434574893076

Stephen Fuhr reiterates that despite rumours, the federal govt is not going to be doing a split fleet. It is increasingly sounding like there might be a semi-rogue party somewhere high in govt continually pushing to split up every contract.

I have a point:

I think I have a point. In the Operational Planning Process the plans people usually presented three COAs. Two viable and one throwaway.

This, I think, is the throwaway.

 

[MilEME09]

I have a point:

I think I have a point. In the Operational Planning Process the plans people usually presented three COAs. Two viable and one throwaway.

This, I think, is the throwaway.

probably, Ive said it before but Im not sure how we can not pick the koreans when they can deliver multiple subs before the Germans even give us one