Friday, February 12, 2021

Is This Submarine The Most Fearsome US Navy Weapon In The Pacific?

The guided-missile submarine USS Ohio rendezvous with a US Marines combat rubber raiding craft for an integration exercise off the coast of Okinawa, Japan this month. 


Hong Kong (CNN)Born of the Cold War and launched with enough firepower to destroy well over a dozen Soviet cities in a single salvo, the USS Ohio, the largest submarine the United States Navy has ever put to sea, has been stripped of its nuclear missiles. 

But it still may be the most fearsome and versatile US weapons platform operating in the Pacific. 

As the Biden administration is demonstrating its commitments to US allies and protecting a free and open Indo-Pacific, it has been making statements with naval hardware. 

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WNU Editor: There are only four of these guided-missile submarines in the US Navy carrying 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles each. 

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