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The US Navy’s SSN(X) Submarine Program Is Slowly Sinking

The US Navy does not have the capacity to build the SSN(X) submarines at scale—but rather than acknowledging this, it has simply attempted to delay their completion dates.
The Pentagon on November 17 awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat a $2.28 billion contract to support advance procurement and construction of five Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines, the ...
The United States is racing to field a new generation of nuclear-armed submarines, betting that a fleet of 12 of its largest ballistic-missile boats will quietly patrol the oceans and close a looming ...