Virginia-class subs have enhanced stealth and surveillance capabilities. They can attack targets ashore with Tomahawk cruise missiles and engage in anti-submarine and anti-ship warfare, mine delivery and minefield mapping. They also can deliver special forces. The last ship to have the name USS Ark...
What is striking about the memo is its suggestion that the US' European allies handle the "threat from Moscow" while the US shifts its focus to Asia — This should pull any vestiges of wool from the eyes of the European leaders who might still harbor some hope that the US will strengthen...
“And given the long duration of the shipbuilding contracts and the shipbuilding process itself for any one of these single submarines, that margin compression can [last] for a while, offset of course by increased improvements in our Virginia-class performance, which we have histori...
“We urge you to send Congress immediately an AUKUS-specific request for appropriations and authorities alongside a multiyear plan to increase U.S. submarine production to a minimum of 2.5 Virginia-class attack submarines per year,” the......
海军弗吉尼亚级潜艇项目和AUKUS潜艇(支柱1)项目_会议背景和议题.pdf,总结为随着政府加大投入和支持,Virginiaclass潜水艇项目的采购进度逐渐加快,预计到2028年实现两艘常规潜艇和三艘先进潜艇的批量交付然而,在供应链船厂和供应商团队之间存在挑战,导致现有产能低于预期
Australia is also set to provide A$3 billion to expand U.S. and British shipbuilding capacity, with most of that to speed up production of U.S. Virginia-class submarines.
Thursday's contract will allow Electric Boat to continue hiring workers. The company is projected to hire about 3,000 new workers for the project over the next decade for both the Columbia and Virginia-class submarine projects, Kevin Graney president of General Dynamics Electric Boat said. ...
Navy’s Virginia class submarine, the USS Mississippi, appeared on the cover of Honolulu’s Star Advertiser earlier this week, as the submarine returned to its home port at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Although the image itself is a pleasant one, depicting the massive nuclear submarine juxtaposed ...
A visit by a US Virginia-class submarine – the one that fired cruise missiles into Syria last Saturday – raised the ire in Naples, Italy whose mayor spewed vitriol over the sub’s presence in the nuclear-free “city of peace.”
Virginia-class military submarines, with Britain and Australia eventually producing and operating a new submarine class, SSN-AUKUS. Article content Article content Australia’s center-left Labor government says the A$368 billion ($246 billion) deal is necessary given China’s military bui...