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Except ...


If Greyback & Growler were built as Attack Submarines they wouldn't be available for conversion into Transport Submarines so 2 new APSS would have to be built to replace Perch and Sealion.


Or ...

  • If a 36th Lafayette was built to replace George Washington early, then the redundant George Washington would have been available for conversion into a Nuclear Transport Submarine (APSSN) in place the OTL conversion of Growler.
  • Furthermore, as there was a requirement for 2 Transport Submarines it would make sense to build a 37th Lafayette which would allow a second George Washington to be come the second APSSN.

I think this is plausible because the Ethan Allen class Sam Houston & John Marshall were converted to SEAL Carriers in the early 1980s and they were in turn were replaced by the Lafayette class Kamehameha & James K Polk in the 1990s.


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