USS Omaha (SSN-692)

The Omaha in front of Subic Bay
Overview
Order	January 31, 1971
Keel laying	January 27, 1973
Launch	February 21, 1976
1. Period of service
Commissioning	March 11, 1978
Decommissioning	5th October 1995
Whereabouts	Canceled
Technical specifications
displacement	6300 tons surfaced, 7100 tons submerged
length	110.3 m
width	10 m
Draft	9.7 m
Diving depth	approx. 300 m
crew	12 officers, 115 men
drive	An S6G reactor
speed	30+ knots
Armament	4 533 mm torpedo tubes

The USS Omaha (SSN-692) was a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy and belonged to the Los Angeles-class submarine to. The boat was named for Omaha , Nebraska .

history

The order to build SSN-692 was given to Electric Boat , a shipyard from the General Dynamics group , in early 1971 . The keel was laid two years later, and construction took just over three years. The godmother for Omaha was the wife of Roman Hruska , the then Senator from Nebraska. In 1978 the submarine was put into service. The Omaha was in the Pacific Fleet.

In 1995, after only 17 years of service, the Omaha was decommissioned. This saved the US Navy the costs for the upcoming renewal of the reactor fuel, and operating costs were also saved. The downsizing of the fleet was caused by geopolitical changes, namely the end of the Cold War .

The submarine is currently in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard , where it will be demolished from October 2007 in the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program .

Web links

Commons : USS Omaha (SSN-692)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Images on navsource.org (Engl.)