Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus hosted a ship-naming ceremony May 24 in Jersey City, NJ, to announce that SSN 796, a Virginia-class attack submarine, will bear the name USS New Jersey. New Jersey was where USS Holland, the Navy's first submarine, was designed and constructed in October...
WASHINGTON, Sept.29 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Navy on Saturday commissioned its newest Virginia class attack submarine U.S.S. Indiana in the U.S. state of Florida. The submarine, hull numbered SSN 789, is the 16th of its class, and the 6th of the block III model to enter service. The...
Navy will be retiring the converted Ohio-class cruise missile submarines at around the same time and will help make up for the coming shortfall in long range missile firepower. Ashley Cowan Virginia-class submarine USS Delaware. The VPMs won’t just carry Tomahawk missiles. The new modules ...
The future US Navy Virginia-class submarine USSNew Jerseywas recently launched into water at Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division. The submarine, which had been in a floating dry dock since being transferred from a construction facility in March, was submerged...
Construction began in 2012 on the USS Indiana, which is the Navy's 16th Virginia-class fast attack submarine. The submarine is the fourth vessel to be named after Indiana. Two others were battleships — one used during the 1898 Spanish-American War and the other during World War II. ...
“The Navy has made it clear how important both the Columbia- and Virginia-class submarine programs are to our nation’s defense,” said Brandi Smith, NNS vice president of Columbia-class submarine construction. “The Multi-Class Submarine Production Facility is an intentional investment to accelera...
the bill adds $542 million for Indo-Pacific Command’s FY24 unfunded priorities list. It also retains $2.1 billion in funding for the submarine-industrial base aimed at helping the Navy meet its submarine production goals while preparing to transfer as many as five Virginia-class submarines...
A debate over whether to create harsher penalties for soliciting and buying sex from older teenagers exploded in the California Legislature this week Associated PressMay 1, 2025 Submarine Designers in Connecticut Say They'll Strike on May 18 if Contract Deal Isn't Reached ...
Bucco (R-25) attended the commissioning ceremony for the USS New Jersey, the first Virginia-class nuclear submarine designed with crew gender integration in mind. Read on... Steinhardt Statement on Governor's Conditional Veto of Ida Aid Senator Doug Steinhardt (R-23) released the following ...
In its place came the Virginia class submarine. Compared to the Seawolf, these boats were not small but smaller, they were not cheap but cheaper. Previously known as the NSSN in its development stage, FAS.org explains: The Secretary of Defense in his October 1993 bottom-up review determined...