"A New Era In Nuclear Weapons And Submarine Warfare" Topic

…Is Beginning.

"Almost nobody knows where they are at any given time, yet nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines quietly patrol dark domains of the undersea realm in strategically vital waters around the globe, bringing the prospect of unprecedented destruction upon potential enemies -- all as a way to keep the peace.

It would not be an exaggeration to call the first "cut of steel" for the lead ship in a class of new nuclear-armed Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines a historic occasion, as the boat is intended to usher in a new era in firepower-reliant strategic deterrence

A "cut-of-steel" for advanced construction of the first boat took place at Newport News Shipbuilding June 17 -- three weeks early -- marking the formal beginning of a long and carefully labored process of building the most technically advanced ballistic missile submarine ever to exist…"

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Amicalement
Armand

I beg to differ.

The Columbia class is not particularly even an evolutionary advancement in firepower from the Ohio-class, as it carries fewer of the same missiles.

And sea-based deterrent has been a thing since 1962.

Thanks!.

Amicalement
Armand

Fewer missiles than the Ohio class?

Then what's the point?

It's a treaty limitation.