• i know it sounds like somebody wrapped a 2004 Pontiac Aztek in packing tape after filling it with kettle bells and dumped it into Lake Erie… but the Ohio class was once the largest & near silent premptive nuclear decapitation strike submarine and critical piece of “deterrence” in that they could be anywhere and allowed the US to dictate terms like an armed gunman to any rival.

      “stealth” air force bombers and icbm silos can be watched from space, but those 18 subs were the compartmentalized, invisible fail safe to kill billions of humans around the world if the political and military leadership was ever under existential threat of major strategic loss/revolution/etc by a more advanced party.