Displacement:
9,150 tons submerged
Length: 350 feet
Beam: 40 feet
Draft: 35 feet
Speed: 25+ knots submerged
Propulsion: S6W reactor
Depth: Greater than 800 feet
Complement: 133
Armament: eight 30-inch torpedo tubes, 50 torpedoes and missiles,
or 100 mines
The
Seawolf-class attack submarines (SSN) are quieter than the
previous Los Angeles class, faster, have more torpedo tubes,
and carry more weapons. They use the more advanced AN/BSY-2
combat system, which includes a new larger spherical sonar
array, a wide aperture array (WAA), and a new towed-array
sonar. Originally intended as a fleet of 29 submarines to
be built over a ten-year period, the end of the Cold War
and budget constraints dropped that number to three and
led to the design of the Virginia class submarine.
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