Yay! Submarines!
Especially, loved the Ohio. Huge ship.
My uncle was major operative in the weapons systems design.
So old school. Just wait until the commies make them all battery powered with a diverse and inclusive crew.
Iran and North Korea have to know they can never hope to destroy or disable these. So any strike against the U.S. is guaranteed to receive a response. Why do they persist in their anti-American rhetoric (or is it more than words?), knowing they would be destroyed? Or do they gamble on whomever is leading the U.S. failing to respond with these sub’s nukes?
Nuclear...ewwwwww!
Anyone see the new drag queen Navy advertisements? I KID YOU NOT.
the company i worked for made the cameras in the aerospike that was part of the celestial navigation system...
looong time ago
Built back when we were a rich and powerful nation with the greatest Science, Tech and Engineering schools in the world churning out hundreds of thousands of brilliant graduates.
Can they be built today and work? Can we maintain and upgrade the old fleet? I fear the answers are increasingly “Doubtful” or “No.”
We are coasting on the great fumes of achievements of prior generations and a nation proud of who it was and what it could accomplish.
It’s a good thing the “prez” isn’t controlled by China? /s
I watched them launch the ver 1st one
Never go into war with a submarine crew, have you ever watched those guys in bayonet training? They are lousy at it.
Should have given one to Taiwan.
“The 18 Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines are some of the most exceptional military machines in human history..”
Not after Biden and his toadies in the DOD get through with them and crew them up with god knows what.
FWIW, back in 1984 with Doug Dalgleish I wrote the first major history of the Trident sub program.
Most common reaction from US Navy: “How the hell did you get this info?”
Most common reaction from the Soviets: “Where can we buy more copies of this?” (joke)
Thanks for a very good and informative posting!
One of my childhood friends dad worked at Electric Boat in Groton. Subs are amazing...A replica of the Bushnell’s Turtle is at the Connecticut River Museum. The Turtle was the first sub.