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SUBMARINES

VIRGINIA nuclear powered submarines (2004-)

Virginia 2010

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Block I
SSN774 Virginia 257 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 2.8.1999 8.8.2003 23.10.2004 in service (2020)
SSN775 Texas 657 Huntington Ingalls Newport News 12.7.2002 9.4.2005 9.9.2006 in service (2020)
SSN776 Hawaii 258 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 27.8.2004 28.4.2006 5.5.2007 in service (2020)
SSN777 North Carolina 659 Huntington Ingalls Newport News 22.5.2004 5.5.2007 3.5.2008 in service (2020)
Block II
SSN778 New Hampshire 259 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 30.4.2007 21.2.2008 25.10.2008 in service (2020)
SSN779 New Mexico 664 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 12.4.2008 17.1.2009 27.3.2010 in service (2020)
SSN780 Missouri 260 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 27.9.2008 20.11.2009 31.7.2010 in service (2020)
SSN781 California 666 Huntington Ingalls Newport News 1.5.2009 13.11.2010 29.10.2011 in service (2020)
SSN782 Mississippi 261 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 9.6.2010 13.10.2011 2.6.2012 in service (2020)
SSN783 Minnesota 668 Huntington Ingalls Newport News 20.5.2011 3.11.2012 7.9.2013 in service (2020)
Block III
SSN784 North Dakota 262 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 11.5.2012 15.9.2013 25.10.2014 in service (2020)
SSN785 John Warner 670 Huntington Ingalls Newport News 16.3.2013 10.9.2014 1.8.2015 in service (2020)
SSN786 Illinois 263 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 2.6.2014 8.8.2015 29.10.2016 in service (2020)
SSN787 Washington 672 Huntington Ingalls Newport News 22.11.2014 25.3.2016 7.10.2017 in service (2020)
SSN788 Colorado 264 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 7.3.2015 29.12.2016 17.3.2018 in service (2020)
SSN789 Indiana 674 Huntington Ingalls Newport News 16.5.2015 4.6.2017 29.9.2018 in service (2020)
SSN790 South Dakota 265 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 4.4.2016 14.10.2017 2.2.2019 in service (2020)
Block IV
SSN791 Delaware 676 Huntington Ingalls Newport News 30.4.2016 17.12.2018 4.4.2020 in service (2020)
SSN792 Vermont 266 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 2.2017 20.10.2018 18.4.2020 in service (2020)
SSN793 Oregon 267 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 8.7.2017 5.10.2019 2021 building (2020)
SSN794 Montana   Huntington Ingalls Newport News 16.5.2018 2020 2021 building (2020)
SSN795 Hyman G. Rickover 268 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 11.5.2018 2020 2021 building (2020)
SSN796 New Jersey   Huntington Ingalls Newport News 25.3.2019 2021 2022 building (2020)
SSN797 Iowa 269 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 20.8.2019 2021 2022 building (2020)
SSN798 Massachusetts   Huntington Ingalls Newport News 2020 2021 2022 building (2020)
SSN799 Idaho 270 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 2020 2021 2022 building (2020)
Block V
SSN800 Arkansas   Huntington Ingalls Newport News 2021 2022 2023 building (2020)
SSN801 Utah 271 General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 2021 2022 2023 building (2020)
SSN802 Oklahoma   General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 2022 2023 2024 authorized (2020)
SSN803 Arizona   General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 2023 2024 2025 authorized (2020)
SSN804     Huntington Ingalls Newport News 2022 2023 2024 authorized (2020)
SSN805     General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 2023 2024 2025 authorized (2020)
SSN806     Huntington Ingalls Newport News 2024 2025 2026 authorized (2020)
SSN807     Huntington Ingalls Newport News 2024 2025 2026 authorized (2020)
SSN808     General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 2025 2026 2027 authorized (2020)
SSN809     Huntington Ingalls Newport News 2025 2026 2027 authorized (2020)
SSN810     General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div., Groton 2025 2026 2027 authorized (2020)

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

6930 / 7800

Length, m

114.9

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

9.30

No of shafts

1 pumpjet

Machinery

2 geared steam turbines, 1 General Electric S9G nuclear reactor

Power, h. p.

40000

Max speed, kts

25 / 34

Fuel, t

nuclear

Endurance, nm(kts)

practically unlimited

Armament

SSN774-783: 1 x 12 Tomahawk CruM (VLS, 12 UGM-109), 4 - 533 TT (amidships, 28 torpedoes, inc. 16 Tomahawk UGM-109 CruM instead of part of torpedoes or mines)

SSN784-790: 2 x 6 Tomahawk CruM (VLS, 12 UGM-109), 4 - 533 TT (amidships, 28 torpedoes, inc. 16 Tomahawk UGM-109 CruM instead of part of torpedoes or mines)

Electronic equipment

SSN774-779: BPS-16(v)4 or BPS-16(v)5 radar, BQQ-10(v)4 sonar suite (BQG-5A sonar (LWWAA array), TB-16, TB-29A/BQ or TB-33 towed arrays), WLQ-4, WLY-1, ASTECS ECM suites, BLQ-10 torpedo decoy, BLQ-11 mine detection system, 2x CSA Mk 2 Mod.2 decoy launchers, BYG-1 CCS

SSN780-783: BPS-16(v)4 or BPS-16(v)5 radar, BQQ-10(v) sonar suite (BQG-5A sonar (LWWAA and CAVES arrays), TB-16, TB-29A/BQ or TB-33 towed arrays), WLQ-4, WLY-1, ASTECS ECM suites, BLQ-10 torpedo decoy, BLQ-11 mine detection system, 2x CSA Mk 2 Mod.2 decoy launchers, BYG-1 CCS

SSN784-790: BPS-16(v)5 radar, BQQ-10(v) sonar suite (BQG-5A sonar (LABA and CAVES arrays), TB-16, TB-29A/BQ or TB-33 towed arrays), WLQ-4, WLY-1, ASTECS ECM suites, BLQ-10 torpedo decoy, BLQ-11 mine detection system, 2x CSA Mk 2 Mod.2 decoy launchers, BYG-1 CCS

Complement

134

Diving depth operational, m

490 (test depth)

 

Project history: Originally referred to as the 'Centurion' class until late 1993 when renamed the NAS (New Attack Submarine), renamed New Nuclear-powered attack Submarine (NSSN) by 1995 and announced as the Virginia class 10.9.1998. Under a joint production arrangement General Dynamics Electric Boats and Newport News each build selected parts of each boat. The yards alternate reactor compartment construction and final assembly. General Dynamics built the reactor compartments and performs final assembly on boats with odd numbers, and Newport News assembled boats with even numbers initially, but in future this consequence will be changed.

    The single S9G pressurized water reactor has a core expected to last for the 30-years life of the submarines. The class is reportedly "as quiet at 25kts as an SSN688 at the pier". Although not capable of diving as deep or as fast as the SSN21 class, these boats were designed to be as quiet acoustically as the Seawolf unit, but with greater nonacoustic stealth capabilities. Block I submarines were built in 10 modules. Later boats consist of fewer, larger modules and will be built faster. Block III submarines have the new Large Aperture Bow conformal passive sonar array in place of. Two Virginia payload tubes (MAC - Multiple All-up-round Canisters) will replace the 12 vertical launch tubes. Each payload tube is capable of storing and launching 6 Tomahawk LACM. Block V units will be fitted with Virginia Payload Module system. This VPM system would comprise four large-diameter payload tubes in a revolver-type module inserted amidships, extending the hull by 28.7m and increasing the number of Tomahawks from 12 to 40. Also this proposed module would allow to use UUVs underway.

    SSN780 and later boats have the CAVES (Conformal Acoustic Velocity Sonar) and, from SSN784, LABA (Large Aperture Bow Array) instead  the previous spherical sonar array and LWWAA (Lightweight Wide Aperture Array). All have HF sail- and chin-mounted active sonar arrays. The class is equipped with 9-man lockout chamber and stowage space for SEAL Team Combat Rubber Raiding Craft. The weapons total payload in the initial units is about 86t. The torpedo room is reconfigurable to give 68m³ of stowage space for SEAL equipment and berthing for 40 SEALs. SSN782 and later boats have new reactor compartment and new composition of spaces used for special operations.

Modernizations: planned: - TB-16 towed sonar array; + TB-34 towed sonar array

Naval service: No significant events.

Virginia 2004

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