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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 23 June 2004 00:00 |
What are these monsters doing to us??
{IMAGE1} - Nuclear powered
- Armed with long-range strategic missiles
- OHIO-class submarines
- Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN)
- 560 feet long
- 155 Crewmen
- Inception in 1960
- First Deployed November 11, 1981
- Subs cost $1.5 billion each
- Built by General Dynamics Electric Boat Division
- The cost of a single trident submarine could vaccinate the world's children from Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
- 18 Trident Subs
- Each submarine carries 24 nuclear missiles
- It takes 12 Nukes to Destroy the World
- The 432 nuclear missiles stored on these Subs make up half of the US allotment of strategic warheads
- Each nuclear missile costs $3.5 million
- Nine submarines are homeported at Kings Bay, Georgia
- Nine submarines are homeported at Bangor, Washington
- Four subs are being overhauled to carry Tomahawk cruise missiles
- The overhauled subs will carry 154 Tomahawks each
- The subs will be able to fire all of their Tomahawks in less that 6 minutes
- Each Tomahawk costs about $500,000
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