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In a previous thread some months ago, I asked if it possible for Germany, Italy and the Netherlands with some other nations included could put their own deterrents into service in the form of SSBN's.

With this in mind and excluding the UK.

How plausible would it be for the Western European nations that are part of NATO (including France) to club together to fund a joint/united deterrent based on SSBN's?

What I was thinking of is a fleet of 20 boats, each with French designed and manufactured missiles and a mixed European crew from the joint nations, funded and run as the NATO E-8 Sentry force is.

You could even for effect and in the same way as the E-3 fleet, have them registered to the Luxembourg Navy, although it's a land locked nation.

Would this be possible or work?

Regards filers.
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