And what's with all the hype around AIPs I never really understood. According to me they are the most useless dead weight thing carried on a sub(especially after lithium batteries on sub became a thing)
SSNs are the technologically superior ones. Also, you don't actually ever launch ballistic missiles IRL(Yes all the threats of launching Nukes are just shit show nothing else) so SSBNs are useless in an actual war scenario
What's the problem with developing an slbm with that range?? I mean we can simply say that we want to target China from the Atlantic Ocean. Actually we really need to do that