Word: seawolfs
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...plated strategic-weapons systems. But, notes Gordon Adams, respected director of the independent Defense Budget Project, "he did not even hint at slowing down any of them." These include the mobile MX/rail garrison missile project (budgeted for $2.8 billion), the B-2 Stealth bomber ($540 million apiece), and the Seawolf submarine ($3.5 billion apiece), not to mention the Strategic Defense Initiative (which the Administration wants to increase from $3.6 billion to $4.5 billion next year...
This approach might justify not building more than one advanced Seawolf attack submarine. The reliable Los Angeles class is still the best attack sub in the world, fully capable of protecting American vessels against enemy prowlers...