USS seawolf submarine pictures

The nuclear-powered attack submarine Jimmy Carter (SSN 23)

General Dynamics Electric Boat moves the third and final Seawolf-class nuclear attack sub , Jimmy Carter (SSN 23)


The last true submarine built for the "Cold War" with an expensive price tag. Her best features were applied to the new Virginia Class with a new mission to stay current with World events and to replace the aging fleet of Los Angeles class submarines


The fastest, quietest, most heavily armed nuclear-powered attack submarine in the world, Seawolf (SSN 21)


Naval Base Kitsap,

stealth nuclear-powered submarine

Seawolf-class fast-attack sub USS Connecticut (SSN22) departs Submarine Base New London.



Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN22) load supplies onto the boat.
The Seawolf class submarines have a top speed of 25 knots on the surface ,The maximum submerged speed is 35 knots, making the SEAWOLF class fastest submarine in the world

The Seawolf class are the most advanced but also the most expensive submarines in the world.The cost of the Seawolf class in 1991 was estimated at $33.6 billion

The us navy Seawolf class Nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) was the successor to the Los Angeles class,They were intended to combat the then-threat of large numbers of advanced Soviet ballistic-missile submarines in deep ocean, such as the Typhoon class, and to reply to the new Soviet Akula class attack submarines, they are the fastest, quietest, most heavily armed submarine in the world
Seawolf class are the most advanced and the most expensive submarines,The cost of twelve submarines of this class in 1991 was estimated at $33.6 billion. At one time, an intended fleet of 29 submarines was to be built over a ten-year period, But after the Cold War, construction was stopped at three boats.
The Seawolf class subs most important advantage of the design is its exceptional quietness even at high tactical speeds. Whereas most submarines need to keep their speed down to as little as 5 kts to avoid detection by passive sonar arrays, the Seawolf class are credited with being able to cruise at 20 kts and still be impossible to locate.a Seawolf at 25 kts makes less noise than a Los Angeles tied up alongside the pier!
specification

Power Plant One S6W reactor
one shaft at with 52,000 shp with pumpjet propulsor

Length 353 feet (107.6 meters)
Draft 35 feet (10.67 meters)
Beam 40 feet (12.2 meters)
Displacement 7,460 ton surface displacement
9,137 tons submerged displacement
Speed Official: 25+ knots (28+ miles per hour, 46.3+ kph)
Actual: 35 knots maximum submerged speed
Actual: 20 knots tactical ["silent"] speed
Operating Depth Official: "greater than 800 feet"
Actual: About 1600 feet (Jane's Fighting Ships: 2000 feet)
Armament eight 660-mm torpedo tubes
50 Tomahawk cruise missiles or
50 Harpoon antiship missiles or
50 Mark 48 ADCAP torpedoes or
up to 100 mines
Crew 12 Officers; 121 Enlisted