Tour the USS New Mexico. This is a very well done interactive tour. Sure looks different than the inside of a Trident SSBN (Ballistic Missile Submarine *Nuclear*). Especially the control room and main navigation. Look at all those flat screens!
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This is, by far, the most advanced attack submarine ever constructed. There are even some rumored technologies on this class of boat that are revolutionary. I won’t touch on them here, but do yourself a favor and Google the speculation if you must.
Some statistics of the war machine from the Federation of American Scientists: (old article BTW, but still relevant) It is interesting to note that much of the speculation about this class was true and well researched.
The Virginia class (or SSN-774 class) of attack submarines are U.S. submarines designed for a broad spectrum of open-ocean and littoral missions. They were designed as a less expensive alternative to the Cold War era designed Seawolf-class attack submarines, and they are slated to replace the aging Los Angeles class submarines, seventeen of which (from a total of 62) have already been decommissioned. Read the rest of this entry »
