The U.S. Navy Needs to Starting Building More Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarines
But will it happen? Money and political will seem to be the bottleneck.
Dave Majumdar [2]
Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding launched the attack submarine Indiana late last week. Over the next several months, workers will fit the new vessel with various systems and make sure that the hardware meets specifications.
Indiana will eventually become the United States Navy’s sixteenth Virginia-class SSN when she is eventually delivered and commissioned into service. But while the Virginia-class submarine program is a bright spot in the Navy’s acquisitions portfolio, the service needs more of those vessels as SSN fleet dwindles well below the Pentagon’s requirements.
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