This, the threat from the modern diesels, is an extremely serious problem. But our problem is more institutional and political than it is technological.
In the cold war, this would have been a problem that was worked on and solved.
Now it is a tech backwater project. And the Navy is focused on advancing homosexuality, man weddings at the Naval Academy, improving the moonpig F-35, buying littoral combat ships that are a step backwards, etc.
And ASW has been gutted, the P-8 is great for program officers, but it is as big a loser as the F-35.
Its a fact that our ASW capability is far less than it was in 1991. And the threat is more dangerous.
But our problem is philosophical, not technological.
Yeah you hit the nail in the head with that, but F-35 is not moonpig because even Israeli air force ordered so many it.