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Virginia-class submarine - Wikipedia  The Virginia class, also known as the SSN-774 class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack .... This contract will bring the Navy's Virginia-class fleet to 18 submarines. And in .... Propulsion: The S9G nuclear reactor delivering 40,000 shaft horse power. ... Block II boats (excluding SSN-778) were also built under a multi-year...
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Kill SSBN(X) and Give The Virginia Class Subs SLBM ... - Next Navy  Oct 28, 2013 ... Kill SSBN(X) and Give The Virginia Class Subs SLBM Capability ... under the watch of a few EM Rail Guns and other missile defenses, .... The VA class reactor and propulsion system is designed for a small fast attack submarine. ... of buying a handful of each type of tool might seem like a great idea, but it...
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Submarine 101 - The Basics about U.S. Nuclear Powered Submarines  The U.S. Navy's submarines are nothing like that - they're practically spotless, huge submarines. ... We have one type of ballistic missile submarine today - the Ohio class, .... Inside the Operations Compartment - Control Room (Virginia Class) ..... dropped on Hiroshima, so you can imagine the destructive power of a single...
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AIP vs nuclear submarines  Defense Issues  Mar 3, 2013 ... STRATEGIC COMPARISION COST Cost of typical AIP sub is 100 ... PEM fuel cells currently have very low power output, but like all .... where diesel-electric submarines  or any type of AIP submarine .... The massive 8000 ton Virginia-Class SSN was 1 billion for the block 2 iteration in then-year dollars.
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DeepFlight  High Performance Personal Submarines  DeepFlight produces the most advanced and highest performance personal submarines on the planet. ... DragonA New Class of Personal Submarine ... Integration & TrainingWith purchase of a submarine, DeepFlight includes customized...
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nuclear submarines and carriers? | Paradox Interactive Forums  Apr 16, 2012 ... I'm playing FTM 3.05 have all the tech researched upto the end of the 20th ... Epidemics, diseases, prosperity and depopulation, the Reaper has arrived! .... Nuclear subs are much much larger then diesel electric submarines which ... The advantage of a nuclear sub is the almost unlimited power which gives...
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USS Nautilus (SSN-571) - Wikipedia  USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine. The vessel was the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on .... To commemorate the first submerged voyage under the North Pole, all Nautilus crewmembers who made the voyage may wear a Presidential Unit...
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Presidential Yachts - USS Potomac  After the M ayflow er becam e the Presidential Yacht, the Sylph ... W hen Herbert Hoover becam e President he ordered ... Roosevelt had a sm all cabin w ith a single bunk, a joining bathroom and for his beloved dog Fala, a sleeping basket. ... W eight added above the m ain deck had m ade the Potom ac top heavy and...
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Why do destroyers carry each of their torpedoes in torpedo tubes ...  May 1, 2015 ... The submarine is a knife fighter. He wants to get in close to stab you. While his ... While these are available to submarines, in my opinion their use is limited, and ... fires bow or stern; Tubes are under water and open to water when fired ... A destroyer has torpedos as one of many potential weapons whereas...
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Patent US5666897 - Submarine weapon-handling and discharge ...  Sep 16, 1997 ... A weapons-handling and discharge system for a submarine which ... therefore, fixed in relation to the location of the torpedo tubes while the tubes themselves are usually constrained by the size and position of the large main bow sonar ... Sea mines--Submarine launch allows clandestine delivery of these...
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Jeopary Questions page 873 - MEET THE PREZ - TriviaBistro.com  SUBMARINE LIFE: This country's submarine fleet, partly based at Severomorsk, suffers from underfunding & deterioration  CELEBRITY RHYME TIME: Willis'...
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Hyman George Rickover facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ...  His immediate superior, Admiral Earle Mills, was in favor of it, as were others. ... 1948 when the navy made a firm commitment to develop nuclear propulsion. Rickover then received two choice assignments: head of the Nuclear Power Branch ... As the navy added more nuclear submarines to the fleet, and then surface ships,...
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Submarine - Wikipedia  A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term most commonly refers to a large, crewed, autonomous vessel. ... Submarines have one of the widest ranges of types and capabilities of any vessel. They range from...
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Virginia-class submarine - Wikipedia  The Virginia class, also known as the SSN-774 class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines .... Two redundant sets of these sensors are mounted on two AN/BVS-1 photonics ... The Block III submarines have two multipurpose Virginia Payload Tubes (VPT) ... Decoys: Acoustic Device Countermeasure Mk 3/4...
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5 Billion-Dollar Defense Companies That Dominate The Industry  Oct 13, 2015 ... Here's a rundown of the top five defense industry giants. ... Still, companies like Lockheed Martin have managed to generate billions of .... One of the oldest defense companies in the United States, General ... to deliver 10 Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines at a rate of two ships per year.
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History of submarines - Wikipedia  Beginning in ancient times, humans sought to operate under the water. From simple ... 'Worth all the rest put together is the little ship, in which he calmly dived under .... After its public maiden dive in 1866, the Sub Marine Explorer was used for pearl ..... In the 1950s, nuclear power partially replaced diesel-electric propulsion.
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This Is How the U.S. Navy's Submarine Force Dominates the World's ...  May 17, 2016 ... However, while America's submarine fleet maintains its technical edge, ... U.S. subs are still much quieter for a given speed and have superior...
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Nuclear-Powered Ships | Nuclear Submarines - World Nuclear ...  Nuclear power and nuclear reactors used to power shipping, ice breakers, ... about 4 Soviet submarines, another four of which had fires resulting in loss of life.) ..... Since 1959 Russia has used five types of PWRs in its civil; fleet: OK-150 in the...
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Submarines and Deep Technology - MarineBio.org  Legend says Alexander the Great ventured below the waters of the Aegean Sea ... The U.S. Navy improved these systems along with the German-perfected .... This one-person submarine, which was the first to be used during war, was very ... USS Holland (SS-1), used a gasoline engine while on the surface and an electric...
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The Fleet Type Submarine - Chapter 4  In a submarine, the principal ballast is water. ... It is the arrangement of these tanks that makes possible controlled diving .... Simultaneously with the flooding of bow buoyancy, the safety tank also in the special ballast tank group, is flooded.