The VA isn’t anything to to sneeze at, I’d think. The Columbias should be far more capable than the Russian Borei’s of similar size. I’d probably best the Columbias will be 5-25 times quitter? US Sub have always vastly outperformed their Russian counterparts.
Main thing is, I bet both sides would delivery sub strikes on every major city on the others’ sides almost equally as well.
Didn’t say it is. Just saying it was indeed a budget sub, basically after the Seawolf proved too expensive for declining MIL budgets. Part of that budget is from making it smaller. Less material = less cost. I’ve always had my doubts it’ll ever be up to par as in the Los Angeles class. But, perhaps if they really do build as many as promised, it can be formidable.
I worked on this ship. Short time but one never forgets the circus one goes thru at EB. My uncle was a major figure on the Ohio weapons systems.