March 14, 2021
This U.S. Navy Submarine Has Just One Mission: Wage Nuclear War
Designed in the 1970s, the Ohio-class are the largest submarines ever built for the U.S. Navy, and only the Russian Navy's Soviet-design Typhoon-class and BoreiÂ-class are larger.
by Peter Suciu
In November of last year, the U.S. Navy began to look into how it could extend the service lives of its Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines beyond the now forty-two year planned life of the SSBNs. This could be necessary to ensure that that the Navy will be able to maintain its submarine force as the replacement Columbia-class SSBNs enter service.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-navy-submarine-has-just-one-mission-wage-nuclear-war-180196