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A nuclear submarine is a submarine powered by a nuclear reactor, but not necessarily nuclear-armed.In the US classification, nuclear-powered submarines are designated as SSxN, where the SS denotes submarine, x=G means that the submarine is equipped with guided missiles (usually cruise missiles), x=B means that the submarine is equipped with ballistic missiles (usually intercontinental) and the ...
The Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine. Nautilus put to sea for the first time on 17 January 1955, transmitting the historic message, "Under way on nuclear power." [14] Up until that point, submarines had been torpedo boats tied to the surface by the need to charge their batteries using diesel engines relatively often.
Unique submarine; liquid metal cooled S2G reactor (replaced with a pressurized-water reactor in 1959) Skate: 4 USS Skate (SSN-578) 21 July 1955 USS Seadragon (SSN-584) 5 December 1959 Skipjack: 6 USS Skipjack (SSN-585) 29 May 1956 USS Snook (SSN-592) 24 October 1961 First nuclear submarine class with teardrop hull form.
Nuclear-powered attack submarines. Churchill class; HMS Dreadnought; Swiftsure class; Valiant class; Nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines
In the 67 years since the Navy launched the world's first nuclear-powered sub, USS Nautilus, its boats have only gotten more capable and more deadly.
First submarine to complete a submerged circumnavigation of the Northwest Passage. SSN-585 Skipjack: Lead boat of a class of 6. First nuclear powered submarine with a teardrop hull. SSRN-586 Triton: Unique submarine. First submarine to complete a submerged circumnavigation of the globe, and the only Western submarine powered by two nuclear ...
The Navy's Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines are equipped with specialized compartments that can host special operators, as well as facilitate their ingress and egress from target ...
Yasen-class submarines, also known as Project 885M, are nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines, built to replace Soviet-era nuclear attack submarines as part of a programme to modernise the ...