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The $3 billion submarine the Navy can't build again

Some machines are so specialized that they outlive the moment that created them. The Seawolf-class attack submarine is one of those machines. Conceived in the last decade of the Cold War, Seawolf was ...
The end of the Cold War resulted in a premature end for the promising and heavily armed Seawolf-class of submarines, capable boats that arguably would have been continued if Pentagon decision-makers ...
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Why the Navy’s Seawolf sub couldn’t be built again

“Essential, unique capabilities” was the warning attached to the Seawolf debate more than three decades ago, in a 1992 industrial-base discussion that now reads less like a budget argument and more ...