What is a submarine with no periscope?

Wonder how they do that. They used to have to communicate by ELF when submerged. Sounds like a significant advance in the state of the art.

I just finished my first Joe Buff novel, so the concept of a photonics mast is not entirely new to me.

That's probably how they receive E-mail as well.

I'm playing poker right now, but I'll come back and read this later.

I have to say, I am sufficiently impressed.

"photonic mast" I gotta get me one of them. By The way, what is it?

PS, why are we building subs? All we have to do is wait till all the Russian ones sink themselves. Also, many of our fields of operation arent blessed with an excess of water in which to hide a submarine, so, do we like, tow it on a flatbed to KAbul?

I think that's what the cruise missles are for.

Cruise missile ranges are what?

Iran has a coastline.

The story reads like they want lots of these. How many is sufficient?

Enough to protect our coastlines?