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French Barracuda-class submarine, a French nuclear attack submarine commissioned in 2020; Sierra-class submarine also known as the Project 945-class submarine, a Soviet nuclear attack submarine; United States Barracuda-class submarine (1919), a three-boat class that formed a part of the United States Navy's V-boats; the first class of V-boats ...
The Barracuda-class submarines (originally the K-1-class submarines) were the product of Project Kayo, a research and development effort begun immediately after World War II by the United States Navy to "solve the problem of using submarines to attack and destroy enemy submarines".
USS Barracuda (SSK-1/SST-3/SS-550) (originally USS K-1 (SSK-1)), the lead ship of her class, was a submarine that was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the barracuda, a voracious, pike-like fish. Her keel was laid down on 1 July 1949 by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut.
The Suffren class is a class of nuclear-powered attack submarines, designed by the French shipbuilder Naval Group (formerly known as DCNS and DCN) for the French Navy. It is intended to replace the Rubis-class submarines. Construction began in 2007 and the lead boat of the class, Suffren, was commissioned on 6 November 2020. [2]
Suffren (Q284/S635) [6] is a French nuclear attack submarine.It is the lead ship of the Suffren class, stemming from the Barracuda program.The vessel, like several others before it, is named after Vice-Admiral Pierre André de Suffren.
The class was developed as mobilization prototypes should large numbers of Soviet submarines based on the Type XXI U-boat appear. [citation needed] K-2 arrived at Pearl Harbor on 23 May 1952 to join Submarine Division 72. Since she was a new type of submarine, she engaged in special evaluation operations to determine her capabilities and ...
Tourville (S637) is a French nuclear attack submarine (SNA). [4] After the Suffren and Duguay-Trouin, it is the third of six Suffren-class submarines in the Barracuda program, the French Navy's second-generation nuclear attack submarine.
The V-boats were a group of nine United States Navy submarines built between World War I and World War II from 1921 to 1934 under authorization as the "fleet boat" program.. The term "V-boats" as used includes five separate classes of submarines: large, fast fleet submarines (V-1 through V-3), large long-range submarines (the minelayer V-4 and two submarine cruisers V-5 and V-6) and three ...