Navy debuts its newest nuclear-powered submarine
Navy debuts its newest nuclear-powered submarine
By Associated Press
Saturday, August 26, 2006 - Updated: 11:54 AM EST
ABOARD THE U.S. NAVY SUBMARINE TEXAS - The big red panic button here is on a computer touch screen, the steering instruments a couple joysticks instead of two cumbersome hydraulic yokes.
Its periscope projects sea-level surroundings onto a 30-inch monitor instead of a lookout sailor’s eye, and the expanded payload is made to carry and deploy special forces teams anywhere in the world.
The Navy debuted its newest nuclear-powered submarine Friday in an Atlantic Ocean swing off the Florida coast, the second in the latest fast-attack class that marks a broad departure from the Cold War-era deterrence boats.
The submarine Texas docks at Cape Canaveral, Fla. It is the newest of the Virginia-class sub fleet. (AP photo)
The Texas, which will officially earn a “USS” designator in a commissioning ceremony in two weeks, weighs 7,800 tons, measures 377 feet long and can remain submerged on covert surveillance up to three months. It travels faster than 25 knots underwater and dives farther than 800 feet.
“It’s much more effective than any ship I’ve been on before,” said Capt. John Litherland, who has been on more than 50. “It’s not the fastest, but the difference is that it’s quiet even at its top speed.”
Perhaps the biggest improvement is the ability to travel with a small special forces submarine, nine commandos and their gear. Previous subs would have carried only three Navy SEALS.
That kind of space is premium on a vessel designed to hide and spend most of its life underwater. Its maximum time submerged is limited only by the amount of food it can carry, because the boat generates its own power and oxygen.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) walks during the opening ceremony of a heavy water plant in Arak, 320 kms south of Tehran, 26 August 2006. Iran underscored its determination to produce nuclear fuel just four days before a UN Security Council deadline to freeze the sensitive work or face the risk of sanctions.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)
By Associated Press
Saturday, August 26, 2006 - Updated: 11:54 AM EST
ABOARD THE U.S. NAVY SUBMARINE TEXAS - The big red panic button here is on a computer touch screen, the steering instruments a couple joysticks instead of two cumbersome hydraulic yokes.
Its periscope projects sea-level surroundings onto a 30-inch monitor instead of a lookout sailor’s eye, and the expanded payload is made to carry and deploy special forces teams anywhere in the world.
The Navy debuted its newest nuclear-powered submarine Friday in an Atlantic Ocean swing off the Florida coast, the second in the latest fast-attack class that marks a broad departure from the Cold War-era deterrence boats.
The submarine Texas docks at Cape Canaveral, Fla. It is the newest of the Virginia-class sub fleet. (AP photo)
The Texas, which will officially earn a “USS” designator in a commissioning ceremony in two weeks, weighs 7,800 tons, measures 377 feet long and can remain submerged on covert surveillance up to three months. It travels faster than 25 knots underwater and dives farther than 800 feet.
“It’s much more effective than any ship I’ve been on before,” said Capt. John Litherland, who has been on more than 50. “It’s not the fastest, but the difference is that it’s quiet even at its top speed.”
Perhaps the biggest improvement is the ability to travel with a small special forces submarine, nine commandos and their gear. Previous subs would have carried only three Navy SEALS.
That kind of space is premium on a vessel designed to hide and spend most of its life underwater. Its maximum time submerged is limited only by the amount of food it can carry, because the boat generates its own power and oxygen.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) walks during the opening ceremony of a heavy water plant in Arak, 320 kms south of Tehran, 26 August 2006. Iran underscored its determination to produce nuclear fuel just four days before a UN Security Council deadline to freeze the sensitive work or face the risk of sanctions.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)
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