I know how they justified killing off the Sea Wolf claiming that it was designed for an enemy that no longer exists. However I am still pleased that we have a constant pipeline of subs being built vs nothing new for the Russian since they are broke.
Hate to tell you, but the Virginia build program was massively slowed down by the sequester... and someone forgot to tell the Russians that they didn’t have anything new because they ‘only’ developed two new classes in that time (Yasen, Borei) and they just launched another brand new one that is supposed to rival or surpass the Seawolf, let alone the bargain basement Virginas.
Oh, and they’re back up to Cold War patrol levels. We’re, uh, not.