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Yeah, picked up on the SF use, then looked up and found the picked up a 66 man "special operator" contingent with the retrofit. Navy gets cool useful toys.Nice reply. I am not a navy guy and doubt you are either, but I notice what looked like a hump behind the conning tower and looked up the USS Georgia, followed to the entry on Ohio Class submarines and saw a picture showing it to look like a small submarine, propeller clearly visible. If you have a huge bllistic missile submarine, why piggy back a small sub? Any Navy people out here?Completely stealth...I'm sure the move was announced to show we can anytime we want....
The USS Georgia was retrofitted to be an SSGN. They no longer carry the ballistic missiles. They now carry cruise missiles and the like. The smaller sub piggybacking on the USS Georgia is likely some sort of special forces stealth sub.
And speaking of stealth, FBM subs are known for being almost impossible to detect. Changing them over to cruise missiles gives the task force an edge against other ships and land targets.