USS Massachusetts: How the Navy's '25th Virginia-class submarine' is reshaping undersea warfare

The USS Massachusetts (SSN 798), the 25th Virginia-class submarine, has officially joined the US Navy. Commissioned in Boston ...
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US Navy adds 377-foot nuclear-powered submarine with 25-knot underwater speed

The U.S. Navy has officially welcomed a new nuclear-powered attack submarine into its fleet.
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The US Navy Has a New USS Massachusetts

The new USS Massachusetts submarine shares a name with a “lucky” battleship of World War II—and an exceptionally unlucky one ...
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Virginia-class attack submarine is the new ‘backbone’ of Navy’s undersea service

BREMERTON, Wash. — The Navy officially has a new “backbone” of its submarine fleet that is bigger, faster, quieter, and has more endurance and firepower than the Vietnam War-era design it passed by in ...
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Work starts on 31st Virginia-class attack submarine

The keel was laid this week for the future USS Barb, the 31st Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, as the Navy continues to transition away from dependence on the Cold War-era Los ...
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How 1950s-era SkipJack Submarines Influenced Modern US Navy Virginia-Class Subs

The US Navy is widely regarded for its global undersea superiority, a distinction which the service is intensely working to preserve through extensive modernization and submarine production. Today’s ...
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Huntington Ingalls Supplies Virginia-Class Submarine to US Navy

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) recently stated that its Newport News Shipbuilding (“NNS”) division has delivered the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine Massachusetts (SSN 798) to the U.S. Navy.