March 17, 2018 – USS Colorado SSN-788 commissioned
Virginia Class Attack Submarine: Named PCU Colorado (SSN-788) on 25 June 2012.The contract to build her was awarded to Huntington Ingalls Industries in partnership with the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics in Newport News, Virginia on 22 December 2008.
SSN-784 through approximately SSN-791 are planned to make up the Third Block or “Flight” Block III subs will feature a revised bow, including some technology from Ohio class SSGNs. SSN-788 will be built at Electric Boat.
Her keel laying ceremony was on 7 March 2015.
Christened on 3 December 2016 & commissioned on 17 March 2018.
Specifications:Power Plant: One S9G pressurized water reactor, 29.84MW (40,000hp), one shaft with pumpjet propulsor, Improved Performance Machinery Program Phase III one secondary propulsion submerged motor. Displacement, 7,800 tons submerged. Length: 377 feet. Draft: 32 feet. Beam: 34 feet. Speed: 25+ knots submerged. Depth: Greater than 800 feet. 12 VLS & four torpedo tubes, capable of launching Mark 48 torpedoes, UGM-109 Tactical Tomahawks, Harpoon (missile)s and the new advanced mobile mine when it becomes available: Unmanned Undersea Vehicles, Special Warfare: Dry Deck Shelter. Advanced SEAL Delivery System. Sonars: Spherical active/passive arrays. Light Weight Wide Aperture Arrays. TB-16, TB-29, and future towed arrays. High-frequency chin and sail arrays. Countermeasures: 1 internal launcher (reloadable 2-barrel) 14 external launchers. Crew: 134 officers and men.
(FROM navsource.org)
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