The American Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt was theoretically sunk by a foreign submarine in 2015. In this case, it was one of France’s absurdly heavily armed Rubis-class nuclear-powered submarines that “sank” the carrier, during a joint exercise in the North Atlantic.
The fact that countries could build or acquire three or four diesel submarines costing $500 to $800 million each for the price of a single nuclear submarine gives them undeniable appeal.
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