USS John Warner (SSN-785)
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An artist's rendering of a Virginia-class submarine underway. |
| Career |
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| Namesake: |
John Warner |
| Builder: |
Huntington Ingalls Inc., Electric Boat[1] |
| Laid down: |
Expected in 2010[2] |
| Status: |
Ordered |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: |
Virginia-class submarine |
| Displacement: |
7800 tons light, 7800 tons full |
| Length: |
114.9 meters (377 feet) |
| Beam: |
10.3 meters (34 feet) |
| Propulsion: |
S9G reactor |
| Speed: |
25 knots (46 km/h)[3] |
| Range: |
Essentially unlimited distance; 33 years |
| Complement: |
134 officers and men[3] |
John Warner (SSN-785) will be a Virginia-class submarine. She will be the first in the class to be named after a person; the previous 11 were named after states. John Warner will be built by the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics in Groton, Connecticut, and by Huntington Ingalls Inc. in Newport News, Virginia. This ship is the second of the Block III subs, which will have a revised bow and some technology from Ohio-class cruise missile submarines.[4]
Her name was announced on January 8, 2009,[5] five days after John Warner, a Republican from Virginia, retired after serving 30 years as a United States Senator. John Warner is one of a few U.S. Navy vessels to be named for a living person and only the third American nuclear-powered submarine with this distinction. The previous two are the USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-709), a Los Angeles-class submarine and the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23).
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