Burton K Wheeler
Moderator
Love the fish names too, might be a bit hypocritical of me, given that I do have a TL similar to this in planning stages, where fish names come back, but the USN there would probably have to fight a heck of a lot less for its budget than in your TL
Pretty much any surface ship the US would build for Green Water ASW would be fit for Blue Water ASW, so long as it had the seaworthiness and endurance, and adding these is the cheapest in monetary terms
SSK for coastal ASW is one of those things I am ambivalent on, could go either way, I don't really want to argue one way or another for the 1990-2020 period, post 2020 I prefer the French sort of SSKish SSN approach
I'd like to see your TL on this subject. I'm basically done thinking about Navy stuff at this point and once the last Marine post is done I'm going back to the Army part of the New World Order TL.