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| 1st sub, screws for propulsion; New York hardbor 9-7-76 |
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| confed; sank Housatonic in Charleston Harbor |
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| 314 (111 before, 203 after); sank 1392, 5.3 million tons, 8 carriers, 200+ warships |
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| first nuke sub, tear-drop hull, 1-17-1955 |
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| USS Thresher, USS Scorpion |
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| lost in Cold war; deep diving sea-trial and weapons casualty; Soviets lost 9, 8 damaged |
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| Peacetime Ops; Intel, Survell, Recon; SpecOps; Precision Strike; Sea Denial; Strategic and Conventional Deterrence |
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| demonstrate US interest in region; visible or invisible interest; support carrier groups, surface task forces, other subs |
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| attack subs; surveillance, intelligence, warning; line of sight transmissions |
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| insert, support, extract SEALs, EODs; collect tactical intel, coastal area recon; Advanced SEAL Delivery Vehicle (ASDV) on special LA, VA and SSGN subs: up to 16 SEALs, EODs |
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| targets with 650 miles of coast of Tomahawk; enhanced with SSGN payload |
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| stop use of seas in legit war, blockages of ports, war of attrition; Falklands War 1982 |
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| Strategic and Convential Deterrence |
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| primary role of ballistic sub as nuke detterence; attack subs as conventional detterent |
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designed to: seek and destroy enemy subs, project power with Tomahawks and SEALs, intel-survell-recon, support Carrier and Expeditionary Strike Battle Groups, mine warefare
advantages: longer range, endurance (no refuel), higher speed, sustained submersion
disadvantages: larger size for reactor, louder, techno and cost of nuke
Pearl Harbor, SD, Guam; Groton, CT, Norfolk |
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| SSN-688(i) LA-class attack sub |
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| SSN-21 Seawolf-class attack sub |
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| SSN-774 VA-class attack sub |
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| Ballistic Missile Subs (SSBN) |
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| strategic deterrence; 2 crews; 14 Trident II SSBNs carry 50% US warheads; Bangor, WA and "Boomers" King's Bay, GA |
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| SSBN-726 OH-class Ballitic Missile Sub |
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| Cruise Missile Submarine (SSGN) |
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| first 4 OH-class converted; transport, support SpecOps; VLS into MAC - 22 cells carry 7 Tomahawks, 2 cells LOC for SpecOps (sub supports team 66 men, 90 days); launch UAVs, UUVs: "remote eyes and ears"; so far USS OH, FL next USS GE and MI |
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| Mk 48/ADCAP Torpedo, UGM-109 Tomahawk, Trident II D5 SLBM, Mk 67 SLMM |
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| principle anti-sub/surface torpedo; all SSns, most SSBNs; breaks ships "back"; pre-programmed search, active seeker head, controlled by guidance wire |
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| TLAM as all weather, long range, subsonic cruise missile; launched from standard 21" diameter, VLS of improved LA, VA and SSGN; 154 on SSGN; blast fragmentation(hard targets), combined effects bomblets(ant-airfield), thermonuclear tactical strike |
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| long range ballisitic, OH-class; multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles (MIRVs); 3stage solid propellant; star fixes |
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| Mk 67 SLMM (sub launched mobile mine) |
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| destroy enemy shipping; modified Mk 37; self-propellant |
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| Sonar (sound nav and ranging) |
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| active and passive; active emits pulses, passove listens to others sounds; Acoustic Rapid COTS Insertion (ARCI) advanced project |
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| takes info from SONAR, periscope, radio, torpedo to program speed course range |
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