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To All Bubble Heads .... In that picture..; aren't the forward vertical launch tubes missing?????
36 posted on 04/09/2009 10:45:48 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Robe

The San Fran is SSN-711 which did not have vertical launch tubes. That started with the SSN-718 I think. We could fire Tomahawks out of the torpedo tubes however.


37 posted on 04/09/2009 10:52:33 AM PDT by OA5599
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Memory failed; should have looked it up first. The VLS tubes were first installed on the SSN 719 (USS Providence), NOT the SSN 718 (USS Honolulu).


48 posted on 04/09/2009 11:22:56 AM PDT by OA5599
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