SSN Thread (older operational, but not PLAN)
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41 Los Angeles class in service homeported in 5 ports :
Groton, Connecticut : 9
Norfolk, Virginia : 7
Point Loma, CA : 7
Pearl Harbor : 15
Guam : 3
SSN-21 Seawolf Submarine
The most faster, quiet and powerful, 2 based to Bremerton, Washington rattached to Submarine Development Squadron 5.
Groton, Connecticut : 9
Norfolk, Virginia : 7
Point Loma, CA : 7
Pearl Harbor : 15
Guam : 3
SSN-21 Seawolf Submarine
The most faster, quiet and powerful, 2 based to Bremerton, Washington rattached to Submarine Development Squadron 5.
SSN shipyards :
USA : 2 :
Electric Boats to Groton, Connecticut 41°20'39.88"N 72° 4'45.28"O the biggest US, the oldest, build submarines for more than a century have build approximately half of the Los Angeles, Virginia and all Ohio and Seawolf.
Newport-News, Virginia 36°59'22.78"N 76°26'12.79"O have build approximately half of the Los Angeles, Virginia.
Russia : 1 :
Severodvinsk, Sevmash 64°34'31.77"N 39°47'13.43" which have built the largest number nucl sub' s actually build Project 885 Yasen and Pr 955 Borey, SSBN have built Typhoon, Oscars monsters and November, Echo II, Papa, Alfa, Yankee, Delta I/II/III/IV and Akula.
Existed at the time of USSR also 3 others shipyards who built nuclear submarines :
- Gorki/Nijni Novgorod on the Volga : Charlie I/II, Victor II, Sierra I/II
- Leningrad : Alfa, Victor I/II/III and also Lada, Foxtrot.
- Komsomolsk : Akula, Echo I/II, Yankee, Delta I, Victor III and Kilo.
France : 1 :
Cherbourg, DCNS 49°39'11.11"N 1°38'8.61"O : Rubis, future Barracuda, SSBN Le Redoutable and Triomphant
China : 1 :
To Huludao 40°43'0.04"N 120°59'39.57"E which have built all Chinese nuclear submarines : Han, Xia, Shang, Jin.
UK : 1 :
Barrow-in-Furness, BAE, 54° 6'31.50"N 3°13'55.95"O : Astute before Trafalgar, Swiftsure, almost all Churchill/Valiant, SSBN Vanguard, 2 on 4 Resolution
2 Resolution and 1 Churchill/Valiant built to Birkenhead.
USA : 2 :
Electric Boats to Groton, Connecticut 41°20'39.88"N 72° 4'45.28"O the biggest US, the oldest, build submarines for more than a century have build approximately half of the Los Angeles, Virginia and all Ohio and Seawolf.
Newport-News, Virginia 36°59'22.78"N 76°26'12.79"O have build approximately half of the Los Angeles, Virginia.
Russia : 1 :
Severodvinsk, Sevmash 64°34'31.77"N 39°47'13.43" which have built the largest number nucl sub' s actually build Project 885 Yasen and Pr 955 Borey, SSBN have built Typhoon, Oscars monsters and November, Echo II, Papa, Alfa, Yankee, Delta I/II/III/IV and Akula.
Existed at the time of USSR also 3 others shipyards who built nuclear submarines :
- Gorki/Nijni Novgorod on the Volga : Charlie I/II, Victor II, Sierra I/II
- Leningrad : Alfa, Victor I/II/III and also Lada, Foxtrot.
- Komsomolsk : Akula, Echo I/II, Yankee, Delta I, Victor III and Kilo.
France : 1 :
Cherbourg, DCNS 49°39'11.11"N 1°38'8.61"O : Rubis, future Barracuda, SSBN Le Redoutable and Triomphant
China : 1 :
To Huludao 40°43'0.04"N 120°59'39.57"E which have built all Chinese nuclear submarines : Han, Xia, Shang, Jin.
UK : 1 :
Barrow-in-Furness, BAE, 54° 6'31.50"N 3°13'55.95"O : Astute before Trafalgar, Swiftsure, almost all Churchill/Valiant, SSBN Vanguard, 2 on 4 Resolution
2 Resolution and 1 Churchill/Valiant built to Birkenhead.
Exist also a third USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23), a subgroup, more big, 30 m longer than the other two Seawolf for highly classified missions and testing of new submarine systems.
As Seawolf rattached to Submarine Development Squadron 5 but homeported to Bangor.
Russia :
7 Project 971 Shchuka B, Akula I/II
1 Project 971 Shchuka B, Akula III
1 Project 945 BARRAKUDA, Sierra I
This submarine is the equivalent of 971 project, but with a hull in titanium , and that is why it weighs only 8200/8500 t max Sierra I/II against 12800/13400 for Akula's.
USRR is the only country to have build submarines with a hull in titanium : Alfa, Papa and Sierra titanium very difficult to weld must not oxygen. And only country to have commissioned SSN with a liquid metal cooled reactor, Alfa, if the metal is to freeze the reactor is fatal that is what happened at the firstAlfa, never returned to service, USN have only test this technology, with this we could have a powerful reactor while being small enough.
2 Project 945A KONDOR , Sierra II
4 Project 671RTM Shchuka, Victor III
With ofc 6 unusual SSGN project 949A ANTEY , Oscar II and 1 Yasen Pr 885, GRANEY
OOB :
NSF :
1425th Subs Naval Base at Zaozersk/Zapadnaya Litsa* :
- 24th Subm Div to Gadzhievo 69°15'30.23"N 33°20'19.25"E : 4 SNA Akula I/II Tigr, Pantera, Leopard, Vepr , 1 Akula II Gepard
- 11th Subm Div to Zaozersk/Zapadnaya Litsa 69°26'7.21"N 32°24'42.86"E: 3 Oscar II : Voronezh, Smolensk, Orel ; 1 SNA Yasen : Severodvinsk
2 Victor III : Petrozavodsk, Obninsk
- 7th Subm Div to Vidayevo 69°19'25.01"N 32°51'14.74"E: 1 SIERRA I : Kostroma, 2 SNA SIERRA II : Nijni Novgorod, Pskov, 2 Victor III : Moskovskiy, Tambov
*Also 31th Subm Div to Gadzhievo with 6 Delta IV, 1 Borey and 29th Br to Olenya Guka for special missions with 1 Delta III modified : Orenburg and mini sub : 3 Kashalot, 3 X-Ray and confidential AS-12 Projet 10831 Losharik.
Pacific Fleet :
Subs Cmd :
- 11th Subm Div to Vilyuchinsk/ Rybachev : 3 SNA Oscar II : Tver, Tomsk, Omsk, 3 SNA Akula I : Magadan, Samara, Kuzbass.
Exist also to Vilyuchinsk/ Rybachev 52°54'46.95"N 158°29'8.24"E25th Subm Div with 3 Delta III must receive 2th and 3th Borey temporarily based in Gadzhievo until the work to accommodate is completed.
7 Project 971 Shchuka B, Akula I/II
1 Project 971 Shchuka B, Akula III
1 Project 945 BARRAKUDA, Sierra I
This submarine is the equivalent of 971 project, but with a hull in titanium , and that is why it weighs only 8200/8500 t max Sierra I/II against 12800/13400 for Akula's.
USRR is the only country to have build submarines with a hull in titanium : Alfa, Papa and Sierra titanium very difficult to weld must not oxygen. And only country to have commissioned SSN with a liquid metal cooled reactor, Alfa, if the metal is to freeze the reactor is fatal that is what happened at the firstAlfa, never returned to service, USN have only test this technology, with this we could have a powerful reactor while being small enough.
2 Project 945A KONDOR , Sierra II
4 Project 671RTM Shchuka, Victor III
With ofc 6 unusual SSGN project 949A ANTEY , Oscar II and 1 Yasen Pr 885, GRANEY
OOB :
NSF :
1425th Subs Naval Base at Zaozersk/Zapadnaya Litsa* :
- 24th Subm Div to Gadzhievo 69°15'30.23"N 33°20'19.25"E : 4 SNA Akula I/II Tigr, Pantera, Leopard, Vepr , 1 Akula II Gepard
- 11th Subm Div to Zaozersk/Zapadnaya Litsa 69°26'7.21"N 32°24'42.86"E: 3 Oscar II : Voronezh, Smolensk, Orel ; 1 SNA Yasen : Severodvinsk
2 Victor III : Petrozavodsk, Obninsk
- 7th Subm Div to Vidayevo 69°19'25.01"N 32°51'14.74"E: 1 SIERRA I : Kostroma, 2 SNA SIERRA II : Nijni Novgorod, Pskov, 2 Victor III : Moskovskiy, Tambov
*Also 31th Subm Div to Gadzhievo with 6 Delta IV, 1 Borey and 29th Br to Olenya Guka for special missions with 1 Delta III modified : Orenburg and mini sub : 3 Kashalot, 3 X-Ray and confidential AS-12 Projet 10831 Losharik.
Pacific Fleet :
Subs Cmd :
- 11th Subm Div to Vilyuchinsk/ Rybachev : 3 SNA Oscar II : Tver, Tomsk, Omsk, 3 SNA Akula I : Magadan, Samara, Kuzbass.
Exist also to Vilyuchinsk/ Rybachev 52°54'46.95"N 158°29'8.24"E25th Subm Div with 3 Delta III must receive 2th and 3th Borey temporarily based in Gadzhievo until the work to accommodate is completed.
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Bernard
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If it is possible Forbin could you delve deeper on everything the SeaWolf Class is and does and everything about it. I've always been so fascinated by it. But Wiki doesn't say much. Is one always on patrol, what are the missions like, etc. I always thought of it as in the league of small uber expensive classes of America's arsenal. Like for fighters the F-22 only built like 190 of them. For bombers the B-2 only 22? were built and Zumwalt only 3 will be built, and subs the SeaWolf only 3 were built. I don't know if I'm missing something. But thanks. Would we be better off now and later, if we had built the initial number of all of them I always ponder that.
IMHO, India needs a second Akula.
That way they can always have one available for escort duties.
Are there any firm schedules and dates for that second Akula coming to India? Links?
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the INS Chakra is just out of a three month refit.thats important info.i think.
they might buy one more akula from russia,
but none of their home built submarines is likely to be SSN's, they are more likely to be SSBN's.
a couple of years ago the navys designing group proposed small attack scorpenes with nuclear power plant,simillar to the ones being built by Brazil,but the navy refused saying that they wanted SSGN's .
the arihant class (you may also call them Kilo class SSBN's considering their ancestry can be traced to INS Sindhukirti )considering their small size is likely to give rise to SSGN's though with a more powerful propulsion system.
INS Sindhukirti which was under refit for almosts a decade and whose refit got over just a year within which the Arihant will go for trials
INS Sindhukirti
INS Arihant
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