08.08.2010 - US Navy rozšířilo flotu o další ponorku

The navy of the United states of america has taken over from the shipyard of Huntington Ingalls Industries (formerly Newport News Shipbuilding) consortium Northrop Grumman already 8. sub-class Virginia - the unit California - and that's a full 8 months earlier than planned (the construction lasted 65 months).
PCU California can launch a naval acceptance trials and tests, in order to be subsequently introduced into the services as SSN-781 USS California (probably 29. October 2011).

Class Virginia is in the future form the backbone of the u.s. submarine force, which is currently composed mainly of the attack submarines of the class Los Angeles, which are complementary to the 3 class submarines Seawolf and furthermore 14 submarines with ballistic missile class Ohio + 4 submarines with cruise missiles with cruise missiles of a class Ohio.



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