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That explains why the Navy tried to hook turbines directly to electric motors on a few subs (besides the obvious noise reduction advantages). As somebody that works in a machine shop, you have no idea how impossible this is. You will never be able to produce everything needed on base, simply...

If you want the in-depth, Norman Polmar explanation, here it is:

The Jimmy Carter is a Seawolf class - it's the one that got stretched out to replace Parche as our special intel ops sub.