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Armament. MK-48 torpedoes. 20 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles. USS Louisiana (SSBN-743) is the 18th and last ship of the United States Navy ' s Ohio class of nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarines. She carries Trident ballistic missiles and has been in commission since 1997. She is the fourth commissioned ship to bear the name ...
140 enlisted [1][2] Armament. MK-48 torpedoes. 20 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles. USS Tennessee (SSBN-734) is a United States Navy Ohio -class ballistic missile submarine that has been in commission since 1988. She is the fourth ship and first submarine of the U.S. Navy to be named for Tennessee, the 16th state.
The Submarine Base is the U.S. Atlantic Fleet 's home port for U.S. Navy Fleet ballistic missile nuclear submarines capable of being armed with Trident missile nuclear weapons. This submarine base covers about 16,000 acres (6,500 hectares) of land, of which 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) are protected wetlands.
Armament. MK-48 torpedoes. 20 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles. USS Kentucky (SSBN-737) is a United States Navy Ohio -class ballistic missile submarine which has been in commission since 1991. She is the third U.S. Navy ship to be named for Kentucky, the 15th state.
MK-48 torpedoes. 20 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles. USS Alabama (SSBN-731) is the sixth Ohio -class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, and the seventh United States vessel to be named for the state of Alabama. The boat's motto duplicates the state's motto, Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere ("We dare defend our rights").
USS George Washington (SSBN-598) was the United States's first operational ballistic missile submarine.She was the lead ship of her class of nuclear ballistic missile submarines, was the third [5] United States Navy ship of the name, in honor of Founding Father George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States, and was the first of that name to be purpose-built as a ...
The first sea-based missile deterrent forces were a small number of conventionally powered cruise missile submarines and surface ships fielded by the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s, deploying the Regulus I missile and the Soviet P-5 Pyatyorka (also known by its NATO reporting name SS-N-3 Shaddock), both land attack cruise missiles that could be launched from surfaced submarines.
USS Ohio, during her commissioning ceremony in 1981. The Ohio class of nuclear-powered submarines includes the United States Navy 's 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and its four cruise missile submarines (SSGNs). Each displacing 18,750 tons submerged, the Ohio -class boats are the largest submarines ever built for the U.S. Navy.