USS Montana (SSN-794)
Montana will be a Virginia-class submarine of the United States Navy. She will honor the U.S. State of Montana. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced its name on 3 September 2015 at a ceremony hosted in Billings, Montana with U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT). She will be only the second commissioned warship bearing the name "Montana".
Lead boat of Virginia class, USS Virginia (SSN-774) | |
History | |
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Name: | USS Montana |
Namesake: | State of Montana |
Ordered: | 28 April 2014[1] |
Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia |
Laid down: | 16 May 2018[2] |
Launched: | [1] |
Sponsored by: | Sally Jewell |
Commissioned: | To be delivered in May of 2020 |
Homeport: | [3] |
Identification: | Hull symbol:SSN-794 |
Status: | under construction[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Virginia-class submarine |
Displacement: | 7,800 tons |
Length: | 377 ft (115 m)[4] |
Beam: | 34 ft (10.4 m)[4] |
Draft: | 32 ft (9.8 m)[4] |
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: | 12 VLS tubes, four 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes BGM-109 Tomahawk |
A contract modification for USS Oregon (SSN-793), Montana (SSN-794), and USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-795) was initially awarded to General Dynamics Electric Boat for $594.7 million in April 2012. On 23 December 2014, they were awarded an additional $121.8 million contract modification to buy long lead-time material for the three Virginia-class submarines.[6] The U.S. Navy awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat the contract to construct 10 Block IV Virginia-class submarines for $17.6 billion on 28 April 2014. The tenth boat is scheduled for delivery in 2023.[4]
Construction of Montana began in May 2015 at Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. Contract completion date is expected to be in May 2020.[7][8]
References
- "Naval Vessel Register".
- "Huntington Ingalls Industries Authenticates Keel of Submarine Montana (SSN 794)" (Press release). Huntington Ingalls Industries. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- US Navy homeport
- "SSN 774 Virginia class submarine". bga-aeroweb.com. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
- Snider, John (8 January 2015). "Shipbuilding News, January 2014". Professional Mariner. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
- Riley, John. "Montana flag presented to U.S. Navy for namesake submarine". KTVQ.com. KTVQ. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- "The Ship". USS Montana Committee. USS Montana Committee. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
External links
Further reading
- Christley, Jim. US Nuclear Submarines: The Fast Attack. Oxford: Osprey Pub., 2007. ISBN 1-846-03168-0 OCLC 141383046
- Clancy, Tom, and John Gresham. Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship. New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, 2002. ISBN 0-425-18300-9 OCLC 48749330