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US Navy wants to avoid shortfall of nuke-armed subs in 2030s
« on: November 03, 2022, 08:32:31 am »
 US Navy wants to avoid shortfall of nuke-armed subs in 2030s

By Megan Eckstein
 Nov 2, 09:15 AM
 

ARLINGTON, Va. — U.S. Navy officials are worried the service in the 2030s may have just enough nuclear-armed submarines to meet operational requirements — but no extras in case one becomes unavailable.

So the sea service is looking at steps to both extend the service lives of some outgoing Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines and hasten the delivery of new Columbia-class submarines.


Rear Adm. Scott Pappano, the program executive officer for strategic submarines, said the submarine force is required to have 10 SSBNs ready to go to sea at any given time. These submarines go on long deployments, tasked with lurking undetected in the depths of the oceans and carrying the nuclear missiles the United States hopes to never launch.

As the Ohios age out of the fleet, though, and the new Columbias come online, there are times when the fleet is expected to have 10 or fewer boats available, Pappano said Nov. 1 at the Naval Submarine League’s annual conference here.

https://www.navytimes.com/naval/2022/11/02/us-navy-wants-to-avoid-shortfall-of-nuke-armed-subs-in-2030s/
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Re: US Navy wants to avoid shortfall of nuke-armed subs in 2030s
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2022, 08:35:06 am »
At the rate Biden and Milley are destroying the military, our military will have a distinctive Chinese flair by the 2030s so how many subs we may have won't matter. :nono:
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Re: US Navy wants to avoid shortfall of nuke-armed subs in 2030s
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2022, 09:40:49 pm »
Get/generate better charts of the South China sea.

Analyze Chinese (and other) ship movements looking for where they might be building underwater obstacles, too.
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