US Navy Virginia Class Nuclear Attack Submarines

[Jeff Head]

Wow...no way. So how did he escaped from that?

I watched a survival show once and a guy showed how to get loose from an Octopus. If you try to just pull them straight off, you will not get them loose.

He showed how you have to pinch hard on each side of each sucker and they will let go and come loose, one at a time, then move on to the next one.

I do not ever intend to be in that situation, but I do remember the show.

 

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I post here for very interesting data on US SSN forces

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The peak projected wartime demand is about 35 SSNs deployed within a certain
amount of time. This figure includes both the 10.0 SSNs that are to be deployed
on a day-to-day basis and 25 additional SSNs surged from the United States
within a certain amount of time.26

35 on 54 : 65 % operationnal, good.

And

Lengthening SSNdeployments from six months

By comparison CVN 6 month theoretical in fact this last years often up to 8 and goes to 9.

Very interesting reports !

Actually 58 SSN/SSGN :
4 Ohio
3 Seawolf
10 Virginia
41 LA whose 22 x 688i best

This year the 11th Virginia the North Dakota is comissionned and for end of the year the 688 Dallas decomissionned.

 

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North Dakota (SSN 784) is expected to conduct sea trials in April 2014 ahead of delivery in May 2014

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No exact price for 10, one Virginia want actually 2.6 billion $, these are prior-year advance procurement (AP) funding and others ... the remaining be paid later.

With this order 28 Virginia are planned sure : 10 in service, 1 in trial, 5 under construction and 12 ordered ( 2 + 10 ) all delivered for 2023.

US Sub's force : this year the LA Dallas will be decommissioned the 26 Sep 14, but North Dakota commissioned then the fleet will remain quantitatively the same : 54 SN ( + 4 SSGN ).

 

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Accuracy for this contract

Ten subs for the price of nine saves Navy $2 billion

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[asif iqbal]

That means USN has deployed at anyone time 10 x SSN maybe more there must be roughly two in every ocean

I know the Royal Navy has always and I mean always deployed 1-2 x SSN deployed at anyone time they do this because they need to provide Tomahawks as per NATO commitment

Ohio Class carrys the real firepower though I read somewhere that a Ohio Class SSGN can empty its entire inventory of 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles from its carousels in under 24 minutes that's one launched roughly every 10 seconds

 

[Jeff Head]

That means USN has deployed at anyone time 10 x SSN maybe more there must be roughly two in every ocean

I know the Royal Navy has always and I mean always deployed 1-2 x SSN deployed at anyone time they do this because they need to provide Tomahawks as per NATO commitment

Ohio Class carrys the real firepower though I read somewhere that a Ohio Class SSGN can empty its entire inventory of 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles from its carousels in under 24 minutes that's one launched roughly every 10 seconds

With 54 SSNs in service, I believe it is safe to bet that there are at least 15 deployed at any one time.

 

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Homeport/units for 10 Virginia :

Groton, Connecticut :
Submarine Squadron 4 : 6 Virginia : Virginia, New Hampshire, Missouri, California, Mississippi, Minnesota
Submarine development Squadron 12 : New Mexico

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii :
Submarine Squadron 1 : Texas, Hawaii, North Carolina

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Others SSN/SSGN classes, numbers by homeport :

Atlantic : 25
Groton, Connecticut : 7 x Virg, 9 x LA : 16
Norfolk, Virginia : 7 x LA
King's Bay, Géorgia : 2 x Ohio SSGN

Pacific : 33
Bangor, Wash.: 3 x Seawolf, 2 x Ohio SSGN : 5
Point Loma, CA : 7 x LA
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii : 3 x Virg, 15 x LA : 18
Guam : 3 x LA

 

[asif iqbal]

No doubt the bulk of the USN fleet will be based in the Pacific during Cold War it was in the Atlantic

Also a Ohio Class SSBN test fired a unarmed trident missiles infact two shots were fired

In my opinion the two biggest deterrence threats are a carrier strike group deployment and a SSBN deployment

And I mean CSG on the go 24/7 365 at all times same for SSBN rotated in and out

 

[Blackstone]

Why do we need so many SSBNs? Aren't we better off mothballing some of them in favor of more SSNs?