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ouroboros said:An extreme solution could be a catamaran hulled cargo WIG with the sub hanging from the center airfoil might have the cargo capacity necessary to pull it off, assuming the trade went the other way and you shrunk the sub some as it can be short legged. Low altitude so the detection radius is more like a surface ship, but it can quickly slip in past an ASW/AWACS gap, drop off, and egress back out. Pickup might be more problematic.
So an AIP, all it's fuel, and transport WIG (and all it's fuel and supply/training/maintenance chain) is going to be cheaper than an SSN? Really?