Cruise_missile_submarine Cruise_missile_submarine

Cruise missile submarine - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Bathyscaphe, Bathysphere, Buried, Drowned, Flooded, Immersed, Periscope, Scuba, Snorkel, Sub

SSGN is the United States Navy hull classification symbol for a cruise missile submarine. The SS denotes a submarine, the G denotes "guided missile" as B denotes "ballistic missile," and the N denotes nuclear power.

The US Navy is modifiying surplus Ohio class Trident submarines to SSGN configuration. This is achieved by the installation of vertical launch systems (VLS). If the maximum of 154 Tomahawk missiles were loaded, one Ohio-class SSGN would carry an entire Battle Group's equivalent of cruise missiles.

See Also: SSN, SSBN, Submarine

Example Usage of submarine
flipphillips: @modernscientist The submarine-low-frequency-radio-waves 'metaphor' is splitting my sides.
jmarcuslittle: Just switched from BMW to submarine mode.
LargeAssociates: . . which is in response to a question of 'how much radioactivity would be released in an accident involving the submarine reactor ?'
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