USS Arkansas (SSN-800)
USS Arkansas (SSN-800) will be a Block 4 Virginia-class submarine for the United States Navy. It was ordered on April 28, 2014. During a naming ceremony on June 15, 2016, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that future U.S. Navy submarine SSN-800 will bear the name USS Arkansas.[2]
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History | |
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Name: | USS Arkansas |
Namesake: | State of Arkansas |
Ordered: | April 28, 2014[1] |
Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Virginia-class submarine |
Displacement: | 7,800 tons |
Length: | 377 ft (115 m) |
Beam: | 34 ft (10.4 m) |
Draft: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
Propulsion: | S9G reactor auxiliary diesel engine |
Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
Endurance: | can remain submerged for up to 3 months |
Test depth: | greater than 800 ft (244 m) |
Complement: |
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Armament: | 2 VPT tubes for 12 Tomahawk Cruise missiles, four 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes BGM-109 Tomahawk |
In popular culture
USS Arkansas was featured in the 2018 navy thriller film Hunter Killer, which was based on the novel Firing Point by George Wallace and Don Keith.
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