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Re:France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia ... by i_am_proteus on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:49PM (#28579174)
Look at the USS San Juan and later hulls.

My source is having been on all three classes of submarine.

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Re:France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia ... by GareyBaldo on Saturday September 18, 2021 @10:21PM (#28581170)
Concur. Unlikely to find prompt jumps in design that weren't previously field tested. Technologies pioneered by Seawolf class were rolled into the VA class, but ultimately decades of building 688s was more valuable than 3 Seawolfs (seawolves?)
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