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      • The Ohio class of nuclear-powered submarines includes the United States Navy 's 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and its four cruise missile submarines (SSGNs). Each displacing 18,750 tons submerged, the Ohio -class boats are the largest submarines ever built for the U.S. Navy.
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  2. The Ohio class of nuclear-powered submarines includes the United States Navy's 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and its four cruise missile submarines (SSGNs). Each displacing 18,750 tons submerged, the Ohio-class boats are the largest submarines ever built for the U.S. Navy.

  3. May 1, 2023 · The 14 nuclear-armed Ohio -class submarines ensure that hundreds of nukes are resting quietly in the world’s oceans, ready to enact a devastating reprisal against any surprise attack on the...

  4. Nov 6, 2023 · The Ohio class is named after Ohio because the USS Ohio submarine is the lead submarine in its class. There are 18 total Ohio-class submarines, 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBN)...

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  5. Nov 24, 2021 · In the U.S. Navy the current Ohio Class SSBN will be replaced by the Columbia (SSBN-826) Class from the 2030s. Meanwhile the first of the Royal Navy’s Dreadnought Class submarines, which will replace the current Vanguard Class, has already been started.

  6. The Ohio Class submarines serve the US Navy as virtually undetectable undersea launch platforms of intercontinental missiles. The Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics based at Groton, Connecticut, built 18 Ohio submarines commissioned between 1981 and 1997.

  7. 4 days ago · The Ohio-class SSBN was conceived in the early 1970s as an eventual successor to the original group of 41 SSBNs - the famed "41 For Freedom" - commissioned between 1959 and 1967. At 560 feet, the...

  8. Nov 15, 2023 · Ohio-Class guided-missile submarines (SSGN) provide the Navy with unprecedented strike and special operation mission capabilities from a stealth, clandestine platform.

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