SSGN Conversion Going Well
This one kind of surprises me. The Navy is reporting that USS Ohio will finish her refueling and conversion to a cruise-missile carrying submarine (SSNG) will be finished by November. This is a conversion plan that I honestly expected would run into delays, since the process of converting the missile tubes to carry 7 Tomahawks apiece rather than a Trident missile seemed likely to run into engineering issues. If they can actually pull it off on time, they will have exceeded my expectations.
Going deep...
Bell-ringer 2201 02 March: From a comment, here's a link to potential Unmanned Aerial Vehicle applications on submarines, including the SSGNs.
posted by Bubblehead at 6:45 AM
6 Comments:
that boat is going to be one seriously big dog in damned near any sea/land conflict. 7? per tube? sure wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that barrage.
3/01/2005 3:19 PM
When the four boats are done, their combined 560 TLAMs are going to be a big portion of the fleet's striking force. Since they'll be staying with the 2 crew concept, they'll also be on station most of the time; anyone who wants to pull a fast one will have to take into account that they'll have no idea where they might be.
3/01/2005 8:09 PM
The Tomahawks themselves are not a single capability weapon, including the ability to carry a tactical Nuke. Don't forget UUV and maybe sub launched UAV future capabilities. I'd say the Trident SSGN is going to be one bad ass mofo!
Former NavET
3/01/2005 10:09 PM
That would be pretty awsome if those converted Ohios could launch and recover UAV's. Kind of like those aircraft carrier subs the Japanese had in WWII.
3/02/2005 10:24 AM
If your interested in the Sub-launched UAV concept check this link http://www.navlog.org/ssgn_uav.html
Former NavET
3/02/2005 11:24 AM
I'm not too familiar with that last link on Sub-Launched UAVs. Here's a more formal source John Hopkins - Applied Physic Lab site on same exercise. http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/aplnews/2003/giant_shadow.htm
Former NavET
3/02/2005 12:52 PM
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