
Diesel Subs? Although the Navy could save money by making part its submarine fleet diesel-powered, Rear Adm. Frederick “Fritz” Roegge, submarine force commander for U.S. Pacific Fleet, expects the submarine fleet to remain entirely nuclear, at least for now. “As I look today at the sorts of tasks” that Adm. Scott Swift, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, “has in mind for the submarine force, I don’t see an effective role for a diesel submarine in executing that vision,” Roegge says…