[judicial meanz]

The good thing is the Golf class is a well known adversary submarine class to the USN, and I doubt those things would be capable of being overhauled and operating in a reliable fashion after all the neglect they suffered.

The bad news is they could cut those tubes and the periphery out and put them on essentially any vessel that is deep draft and floats, as the Reuters article points out Hipshot posted.

If they did put it on a merchant ship hull, the USN could take it out in a few minutes, max.

Those guys are plain nuts.

[HipShot]

"If they did put it on a merchant ship hull, the USN could take it out in a few minutes, max.

Unless we've got some good assets, they'd be taking it out after the tubes were empty. I keep thinking sunburn, btw. Knowing that NK and Iran intend to share test data, I'd not be surprised if their books were open to each other. The possibility of 200kt on an actively defensive highspeed AS cruiser is not something to ignore.