USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23)
_flying_Jack.jpg) The 2005 Jimmy Carter in port |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | June 29, 1996 |
| Keel laying | 5th December 1998 |
| Launch | June 5, 2004 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | February 19, 2005 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
12,139 standard bins |
| length |
138 meters |
| width |
12.2 meters |
| Draft |
11 meters |
| Diving depth | > 240 m |
| crew |
14 officers and 126 men |
| drive |
S6W pressurized water reactor, nozzle ring propeller |
| speed |
> 25 knots |
| Armament |
8 × 660 mm torpedo tubes |
The USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is a Seawolf-class nuclear submarine that has been modified for special operations (especially spying data from submarine cables).
history
Construction and planning
The keel of the Jimmy Carter was laid in 1998 at Electric Boat , and a year later a multi-mission platform 30 meters in length was installed for $ 887 million . This allows the Carter to launch miniature submarines , launch divers and transport a dry deck shelter . Up to 50 men of the special forces have space on board. The installation made the boat 30 meters longer, about 2000 tons heavier and two knots slower. Additional stabilizers have also been attached to the bow to allow it to hover in one place. The boat replaces the old USS Parche (SSN-683) of the Sturgeon-class submarine .
On June 5, 2004, it was launched and baptized by Rosalynn Carter , wife of the namesake, former US President Jimmy Carter . Carter is the only US president to date to serve on submarines during his military service. In 2005 the Jimmy Carter entered service.
The cost of building and equipping the submarine came to just under 2.5 billion euros.
Rides
Her first trips took place at the end of 2004, her Alpha Sea Trials , i.e. the first test drives , ended on November 19th. The boat was in Groton ( Connecticut provided) into service. In October 2005, the Jimmy Carter began her voyage to her new home base, Naval Base Kitsap , when she was hit by an unusually high wave, while still on the surface, which damaged the tower . On November 9th, the Jimmy Carter reached the base.
espionage
The boat is also believed to be used for tapping submarine cables, providing a central listening point for the programs that became public as part of the 2013 surveillance and espionage affair .
Web links
- Article about the modifications by Admiral John P. Davis in the US Navy magazine Undersea Warfare (Fall 1999, Vol. 2, No. 1)
- Article about the commissioning in Undersea Warfare (Spring 2005, Vol. 7, No. 3) (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Mascolo : The outer world of the inner world , faz.net, June 25, 2013
- ^ A b Christoph Sydow: NSA wiretapping scandal: The data robbers from the USS "Jimmy Carter". In: Spiegel Online . July 1, 2013, accessed July 3, 2013 .