My comment was only to point out just how tough our equipment is. :-)
Don't you think that the Chicoms and Ruskies said, "Uh-oh!" when the San Fran rammed a mountain then sailed home on its own?
Heck, yeah it got their attention! Given the fatal incompetence of the Chicom submarine force in the recent Golf II incident and the terrible state of maintenance in parts of the Russian fleet (along with the Kursk accident), they probably count themselves lucky every time one of their submarines surfaces after diving!
However this situation won't last forever (especially with the Chinese) and it is up to us to capitalize on the opportunity while it still exists by developing (and building in suffficent quantities) new classes of really superb naval combatants.
Not sure how (or even if) a modernized fast, big gun, heavily armored ship fits into that equation. Would love to see it though. There is nothing like a battleship for pure military sex appeal (Freudian pun intended).