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The Los Angeles class of submarines are nuclear-powered fast attack submarines in service with the United States Navy. Also known as the 688 class (pronounced "six-eighty-eight") after the hull number of lead vessel USS Los Angeles (SSN-688), 62 were built from 1972 to 1996, the latter 23 to an improved 688i standard.
USS Los Angeles (SSN-688), lead ship of her class of submarines, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Los Angeles, California.The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 8 January 1971 and her keel was laid down on 8 January 1972.
USS Columbia (SSN-771) is the 21st flight III, or Improved (688i) Los Angeles-class attack submarine of the United States Navy.Commissioned in 1995, the submarine is assigned to Submarine Squadron 7 and homeported in Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
USS Los Angeles (SSN-688) ... Attack submarine. 23 commissioned as of September 2024 ... List of submarines of the United States Navy.
First diesel-powered attack submarine with a teardrop hull. SS-581 Blueback: Last conventionally powered attack submarine in service with the US Navy. Museum ship, OMSI Museum, Portland, Oregon SS-582 Bonefish: Last conventionally powered submarine built for the US Navy. Laid after Blueback but launched and commissioned before SSN-583 Sargo ...
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.
USS Miami (SSN-755) was a Los Angeles-class submarine of the United States Navy.She was the third vessel of the U.S. Navy to be named after Miami, Florida. Miami was the forty-fourth Los Angeles-class (688) submarine and the fifth Improved Los Angeles-class (688I) submarine to be built and commissioned.
The US Navy is considering a "short-ish repair availability" to keep its aging Ohio-class subs around longer as it awaits its new Columbia-class subs.