If the ship of Theseus was a submarine, that would be it (bow of the sub burnt while in dry dock and got replaced with the bow of an other sub of the same class which was going to be scrapped)
plus it’s a small nuke submarine (Rubis class), which is always fun
Terrible reason to give US the jet yes, second part however hell no, the F14 Iranian should go to the US as its an f14, we shouldn’t be fighting for more exported vehicles in other nations unless they are in desperate need theirs already way to much fucken copy pastes. so as much as I would want it, according to IRAF tomcat and not needing more copy pastes especially for US or Russia it should probably go to Russia or it should wait until the I think confirmed now, polish/ eastern European tech tree which could contain Ukrainian vehicles so this could be a useful top tier for them.
but the plane is still stuck with r60mk, i can find proof of it firing or carrying r73 or the iran reverse eng aim9, ( fattah ? ) that would be hard to give it a proper br.
I get they are largely Agosta class boats with a reactor section inserted to replace the machinery section, but I genuinely do not understand how they managed to make such small nuclear submarines.
At that point its got to be almost more expensive to miniaturise everything compared to making a larger, more capable SSN. Still interesting boats though.
Less power mainly, I would imagine (limited to 20-25 Knots max, depending on sources). I also think miniaturization was not that much of a problem, since the US managed to fit a nuke reactor in a 400T sub more or less a decade earlier in the form of NR-1 (granted it wasn’t a military submarine)
Rubis are budget SSNs with questionnable crew comfort, and they also pale in comparison of others when it comes to ammo capacity (mix of 14 torps and AShMs in total).
Thankfully, Suffren exists X)
Still, having a SSN almost as short as a type VII seems fun.