USS New Mexico (SSN-779)
 The New Mexico during her christening in the shipyard |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | Nuclear submarine |
| Shipyard | |
| Order | August 14, 2003 |
| Keel laying | April 12, 2008 |
| Launch | January 18, 2009 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | March 27, 2010 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
7925 tons submerged |
| length |
115 m |
| width |
10.4 m |
| Draft |
9.5 m |
| crew |
134 |
| drive |
An S9G reactor, nozzle ring propeller |
| speed |
25+ knots |
| Armament |
4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes |
The USS New Mexico (SSN-779) is a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy . It belongs to the Virginia class and was named after the US state of New Mexico .
history
SSN-779 was commissioned in 2003 and laid down at Newport News Shipbuilding in April 2008 . The boat was christened at the end of 2008, the godmother of Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani's wife , Cindy Giambastiani. On January 18, 2009, the dry dock of the New Mexico was flooded and the boat was launched. It was planned to hand over the boat to the Navy at the end of September 2009 and to put it into service on November 21. However, after problems with the weapon management in the torpedo room became known, the original schedule had to be abandoned. At the end of December 2009, the Navy picked up the boat, around four months before the end of the contractually agreed deadline, which required delivery by April 30, 2010. The commissioning took place on March 27, 2010 in the Naval Station Norfolk .
literature
- Garant Verlag GmbH (Ed.): U-Boats. History of Submarines , January 15, 2017 Renningen, ISBN 978-3-7359-1338-8 , p. 173
Web links
- Official website (English)
- ussnewmexico.net (English)
- SSN-779 in the Naval Vessel Register (English)