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USS Ohio undergoing conversion to a cruise missile submarine. The U.S. Navy's first cruise missile submarines were developed in the early 1950s to carry the SSM-N-8 Regulus missile. The first of these was a converted World War II era Gato-class submarine, USS Tunny, which was fitted with a hangar capable of carrying a pair of Regulus missiles.
Whiskey Twin Cylinder submarine. In the 1950s and 1960s, some Whiskey submarines were converted to guided missile submarines, with the capability to fire one to four SS-N-3 Shaddock cruise missiles. In 1956, the first prototype was ready. It was a regular Whiskey class modified with a launch tube aft of the sail containing a single SS-N-3c.
The US deployed the short-range Harpoon anti-ship missile on submarines beginning in 1981. The Soviet Navy converted 13 Whiskey-class submarines (Project 613) for the land-attack cruise missile (LACM) role in the late 1950s (Whiskey Single Cylinder, Whiskey Twin Cylinder, Whiskey Long Bin), armed with the SS-N-3 Shaddock (П-5) missile.
Upon returning to San Diego, the ship took the lead in establishing shore-based services that will support the submarines after McKee's departure. In November 1998, the weapons department of the USS McKee loaded Tomahawk cruise missiles onto HMS Splendid (S106). These were the first of 67 Tomahawk cruise missiles sold to the Royal Navy and the ...
2 × Regulus missile hangars (4 x Regulus I missiles or 2 x Regulus II missiles) 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) USS Grayback (SS/SSG/APSS/LPSS-574) , the lead ship of her class of submarine , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grayback .
Submarine Group, San Diego was established in 1946, and Submarine Flotilla 1 was activated in 1949. In 1959 Fort Rosecrans was turned over to the United States Navy . The Navy Submarine Support Facility was established in November 1963 on 280 acres (1.1 km 2 ) of the land. [ 4 ]
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Continuing her missile guidance duties with consorts Tunny (SSG-282), and Carbonero (SS-337) she operated in Hawaiian waters with a cruise to San Diego in 1957 and duty in the Far East in 1958 and 1960. In the fall of 1961 Cusk had her Regulus missile guidance equipment removed and reverted to attack submarine profile. After successfully ...