« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: The U.S. Navy's New Columbia-Class Missile Submarine Has a Problem  (Read 438 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline rangerrebew

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 177,020
The U.S. Navy's New Columbia-Class Missile Submarine Has a Problem
« on: June 25, 2024, 06:57:32 am »
The U.S. Navy's New Columbia-Class Missile Submarine Has a Problem
 
Summary and Key Points: Maintaining a technologically superior nuclear triad is crucial as U.S. nuclear-armed adversaries grow increasingly hostile. The Ohio-class submarines currently form the backbone of America's sea-based nuclear deterrent, set to be replaced by the more advanced Columbia-class submarines in the early 2030s.
 
-However, delivery of the first Columbia-class submarine is delayed by 12 to 16 months, primarily due to slower delivery of turbine generators by Northrop Grumman. The Columbia-class submarines, the largest and most complex ever built, will feature advanced stealth capabilities and enhanced missile systems.
 
-Despite rising costs and delays, ensuring the timely deployment of these submarines is vital to maintaining national security.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-u-s-navy-s-new-columbia-class-missile-submarine-has-a-problem/ar-BB1oOr3I?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=f2e2aad959054f82a62aa8b043396dcd&ei=28
Logged
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

Online Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 61,127
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: The U.S. Navy's New Columbia-Class Missile Submarine Has a Problem
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2024, 07:22:21 pm »
Quote
-Despite rising costs and delays, ensuring the timely deployment of these submarines is vital to maintaining national security.

But they are already delayed by a year to a year and a half, and that does not even include the shakedown cruise.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »