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USS Connecticut (SSN-22)

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received extensive overhauls from 2012 to 2017. She returned to operation in early 2018 and participated in the Arctic ICEX 2018 operational readiness exercise. Later that year she deployed to the western Pacific before returning on 30 January 2019.
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weapons systems, sensors, stealth and engineering proficiency. She participated in Joint Task Force Exercise 2-99 as an opposing force asset, and completed acoustic trials, a shallow water exercise, and an anti-submarine warfare exercise.
470:-class submarines to be transferred from New London to Kitsap as part of a larger U.S. Navy realignment shifting 60% of the fleet's submarines to the Pacific. Upon arrival at Kitsap on 30 January 2008, 566:. About eleven sailors sustained injuries, though none were reported to be life threatening. The submarine's propulsion system were said to be operating normally. After an investigation, the 1101: 1412: 381:
began a Post-Shakedown Availability (PSA) at the Electric Boat shipyard. Despite a 100% growth in the amount of PSA work, making this the submarine force's most demanding PSA,
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participated in ICEX 2011 to "train today’s submarines in the challenging Arctic environment", as well as "refine and validate procedures and required equipment."
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The US Navy intends to repair the submarine, with work to begin in 2023 and a planned repair time frame of 31 months, returning to service in September 2025.
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Schank, John F.; Cesse, Cameron; Ip, Frank W.; Lacroix, Robert; Murphy, Mark V.; Arena, Kristy N.; Kamarck; Lee, Gordon T. (2011).
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completed all work ahead of schedule. This PSA concluded as the safest in the 100-year history of Electric Boat.
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was largely confined to port as she underwent a prolonged maintenance cycle.
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8 × 26.5 inch torpedo tubes, sleeved for 21 inch weapons (up to 50
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107.5 meters (353 feet) overall, 107.5 meters (353 feet) waterline
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1999 was spent conducting shakedown operations that evaluated
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by Patricia L. Rowland, wife of the Governor of Connecticut,
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underwent maintenance and modernizing in a drydock at
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breaks polar ice and is encountered by a polar bear.
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Index

USS Connecticut

Connecticut
General Dynamics Electric Boat
Kitsap Naval Base
Bremerton, Washington

Seawolf-class
submarine
S6W
PWR
HEU
pump-jet
Tomahawk land attack missile
Harpoon anti-ship missile
Mk 48 guided torpedo
Seawolf-class
nuclear powered
attack submarine
United States Navy
United States Ship
Connecticut
Electric Boat
General Dynamics
Groton, Connecticut
launched
sponsored
John G. Rowland
commissioned
University of Washington

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