>only 3 active in its class is now out of commission. There's potentially even worse intangible costs. Chinese military watching rumormills are alleging that R

>only 3 active in its class is now out of commission. There's potentially even worse intangible costs. Chinese military watching rumormills are alleging that Russian and Chinese forces were monitoring the multi-carrier exercise that Connecticut was part of, may have isolated the subs acouistic signiture and are poring over old sonar records to identify past Seawolf class activity. I'm somewhat skeptical, but PRC has been absolutely saturating region with anti-submarine warfare assets especially when US conducts exercises in the region.