Congress Has Already Allocated Tens Of Millions For USS Connecticut Repairs
Congress has approved $50 million in total to help fix the USS Connecticut, but the repair bill could grow to be significantly larger.
Congress has approved $50 million in total to help fix the USS Connecticut, but the repair bill could grow to be significantly larger.
USS Connecticut is now near its homeport in Bremerton nearly three months after hitting a seamount.
USS Connecticut is making its way back to its home in Washington State after slamming into a seamount in the South China Sea.
The damaged USS Connecticut’s covert journey across the Pacific must have been an arduous and complex affair.
The Danish Navy described the situation as “dramatic” as the submarine Orel drifted towards its territory following an unknown propulsion malfunction.
The rare satellite image shows a Chinese nuclear submarine entering into the mysterious submarine cave system at Yulin Naval Base on Hainan Island.
Getting assigned to your first sub doesn’t make you a submariner and once you become one you’ll find yourself in a social structure unlike any other.
Nuclear submarines have many parallels to fictional starships, but in this case, these super high-tech vessels are made to dive down, not fly up. The massive facility these boats are being built in is the largest of its kind in Europe and was referred to as “Maggie’s Farm” at the tail end of the Cold War.
The system in question was clearly very advanced for its time and appears similar to the unique navigation system in A-6 Intruders from the same era.
The unique 75-year-old vessel could provide much needed dry dock capacity for the Navy’s submarine fleet or it could be scrapped for its recycling value.