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  1. A submarine is made with very heavy steel to withstand the pressure from the outside, it wouldn’t make much sense to assemble something like it in space. But dont fret, we are already assembling something similar in space with much lighter materials, the International Space Station.

  2. It would be useless.
    you would have thousands of tons of useless steel to push around. Ion engines would be totally too weak. The design is meant to keep water pressure outside. The seals are designed that way. In space the seals would be backwards and maybe let the air out.
    The power plant would be a waste because it is designed to generate a lot of steam to run the propeller. It would not be needed in space.

    :-D Basically a heavy useless steel tube. Even the torpedoes wouldn’t work.

  3. prolly will explode, you see, the matter is the air pressure, given a hollow object, if you submerge in the sea, the water will try to _enter_ so a submarine is heavily reinforced to prevent the water to enter.

    Now, in space is exactly the opposite, there’s _nothing_ outside, so the pressure is from inside to the outside, that is: the air will try to escape the object. A submarine is not designed to retain the air inside, since in the sea that just happens naturally.

How would a Nuclear Submarine do in space?

Of course, assuming that you replaced the propellers with ion engines, and the ballast tanks with air and water tanks? And you wouldn’t have to launch it into space, that’s impossible with ion engines, it would be assembled in space. And thoughts?