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On 28 July 2016, it was reported that the first submarine of the class will be named Columbia, to commemorate the District of Columbia, the capital of the United States. [28] The Columbia class was officially designated on 14 December 2016 by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, and the lead submarine will be USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826). [29]
General Dynamics Electric Boat: Status: Announced: General characteristics; Class and type: Columbia-class submarine: Displacement: 20,810 long tons (21,140 t) (submerged) Length: 171 metres (561 ft) Beam: 13 metres (43 ft) Propulsion: Turbo-electric drive, pump-jet: Range: Unlimited: Complement: 155: Armament: 16 × Trident II ICBMs; Torpedo tubes
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 District of Columbia (SSBN-826) will be the lead boat of the United States Navy's Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines and the Navy's first vessel to be named for the District of Columbia. On 25 July 2016, U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced that the new submarine would be named USS Columbia. [ 2 ]
USS Wisconsin (SSBN-827) will be the second Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine. She is the third vessel of the United States Navy to be named after the state of Wisconsin . [ 2 ] The previous name holder was the Iowa -class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) , which decommissioned in 1991 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 2006.
The submarine was placed in the water on 20 November 2009, and christened on 5 December 2009. Missouri ' s sponsor is Becky Gates, wife of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. [2] Rebecca Gates christens Missouri at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut. Missouri was commissioned on 31 July 2010.
Russia’s Typhoon-class submarines are the biggest subs ever built. Each u-boat stretched to nearly 600 feet long and was wider than the average American house.
USS Ohio (SSBN-726/SSGN-726), the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), is the fourth vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the U.S. state of Ohio. She was commissioned with the hull designation of SSBN-726, and with her conversion to a guided missile submarine she was re-designated SSGN ...