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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.
USS Growler (SSG-577) was an early attempt by the U.S. Navy to field a cruise missile submarine that would provide a nuclear deterrent using its second series of cruise missiles. Built to deliver the Regulus I cruise missile , Growler was the second and final submarine of the Grayback class , fourth boat of the United States Navy to be named ...
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.
The bar was featured in a New Orleans edition of the TruTV series Impractical Jokers. The bar's front sign was briefly visible in a New Orleans reference in season 5, episode 13 of Family Guy, "Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey." NCIS: New Orleans, season 3, episode 5--Pride and Gregorio interview the daughter of a victim who waits tables at the bar.
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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.
Pyatyorka is a common name for the missile as the "digit 5", corresponding to the R-7 Semyorka, the digit 7. The basic version of the missile was an inertially-guided submarine-launched cruise missile to threaten the US coasts. The missile could be armed with either a 1000 kg high explosive or a 200 or 350 kt nuclear warhead.
Intrepid Museum Established 1982 Location 12th Avenue and 46th Street, Manhattan, New York, U.S. Coordinates 40°45′53″N 73°59′59″W / 40.7646°N 73.9996°W / 40.7646; -73.9996 Founder Michael D. Piccola Director Susan Marenoff-Zausner Public transit access Bus: M12, M42, M50 Subway: at 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal Website IntrepidMuseum.org The Intrepid Museum ...