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Is it solar or wind-powered?
Interesting, I am wondering what tech improvement has occurred that allows for this? I am presuming this is a roughly 50 year service life?
The boat named after DC should be renamed IF we’re following the convention of naming SSBNs after states.
Good old EB. Back in the day we called our green duct tape “EB Green”. They built the boat I was on. SSBN 640. I’d like to walk through the engineering spaces when the first one is done but that’s about it. Is it a boomer or attack boat. Boomers had torpedo tubes in my days. Get rid of the birds then hunt something to shoot. Just another longer slow attack boat. If you could live long enough. Steaming in Rota Spain wasn’t much of a treat either but it beat Nam.
It pains me to say it as an Army man, but there is no more important program for deterrence in our nation than the Ohio class subs so I hope they build the best boats.
Important work like this needs to be taken out of places like Connecticut, and sent South. Too risky up there.
“Aging ohio class”...i remember the news on the launch of the ohio. Now its considered “old”...im feeling old...
Hubby wonders if you have any comment on this. He said you “wrote the book” re Trident, EB, etc.
They sure went out of their way to NOT say “nuclear powered”
Boomer huh. Sorry I should have read the post slower. As far as core life, lots of tech goes into designing a reactor core. There’s tricks to extend life. They’ve come a ways from the old S5W and S3G etc cores. I’ll bet their ice cream machine don’t smoke it’s belt and cause a fire drill as often as ours did either.
A nice order to book!
These subs are money well spent. We should build far more subs and less carriers.
The Marlin class was stillborn, these elements are now part of the Columbia class.
Im sure no gender bathrooms and womens berthing have been worked into the design.
” and is expected to be completed by October 2030.”
Probably about the same time that they get their first new delivery of HIMARS Missiles.
I am willing to supply hammers or toilet seats...
Lets get in on the graft, theft, corruption and managerial incompetence.
EB has a history... I know the guy that blew the whistle on them. Hell, lets just call it the General Dynamics tax payer pounding pimp daddy corrupt to the core scum sucker wet company. Just the facts maam.
The US Navy are no longer on our side. These are enemy submarines.