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USS Arkansas was featured in the 2018 navy thriller [[Hunter Killer]], which was based on the novel "Firing Point" by George Wallace and Don Keith. |
USS Arkansas was featured in the 2018 navy thriller film [[Hunter Killer]], which was based on the novel "Firing Point" by George Wallace and Don Keith. |
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Revision as of 07:49, 4 February 2020
_returns_to_the_General_Dynamics_Electric_Boat_shipyard.jpg) Lead boat of the Virginia class, USS Virginia (SSN-774) returns to the General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard following the successful completion of its "alpha" sea trials in 2004
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Arkansas |
| Namesake | State of Arkansas |
| Ordered | April 28, 2014[1] |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Template:Sclass- |
| Displacement | 7,800 tons |
| Length | 377 ft (115 m) |
| Beam | 34 ft (10.4 m) |
| Draft | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Propulsion | S9G reactor auxiliary diesel engine |
| Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h) |
| Endurance | can remain submerged for up to 3 months |
| Test depth | greater than 800 ft (244 m) |
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| Armament | 2 VPT tubes for 12 Tomahawk Cruise missiles, four 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes BGM-109 Tomahawk |
USS Arkansas (SSN-800) will be a Template:Sclass- for the United States Navy. During a Naming Ceremony on June 15, 2016, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that future U.S. Navy submarine SSN-800 will bear the name USS Arkansas. [2] Arkansas is a Block 4 Template:Sclass- that was ordered on April 28, 2014.
In popular culture
USS Arkansas was featured in the 2018 navy thriller film Hunter Killer, which was based on the novel "Firing Point" by George Wallace and Don Keith.
References
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