Versatility of converted subs earns praise
By Andrew Scutro - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Oct 27, 2008 16:54:34 EDT
Its potency has been compared to a floating army division by a special operations general. It’s a war machine so useful to SEALs that it makes them actually want to open up and talk for once.
And its lethality is easily recognized — the official Chinese news agency dubbed it “A Warehouse of Explosives ... a Devil of Deterrence.”
The operational debut of the Navy’s four Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines converted to carry Tomahawk cruise missiles and conduct large-force special warfare missions has exceeded expectations, according to operators, managers and leadership.
Two former silent members of the nuclear triad — the Ohio and Florida — are on deployment loaded with various combinations of Tomahawk cruise missiles, SEALs and submersibles. The Michigan sets out in the coming weeks and will — for the first time on this type of boat — employ the Advanced SEAL Delivery System, a minisub. The Georgia will deploy in 2009.
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Versatility of converted subs earns praise
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Versatility of converted subs earns praise
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A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Re: Versatility of converted subs earns praise
I wanna see one of these boomers ripple fire all 154 Tomahawks. 
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Describing what HTRN does as "antics" is like describing the wreck of the Titanic as "a minor boating incident" ~ First Shirt
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Re: Versatility of converted subs earns praise
At Tehran...HTRN wrote:I wanna see one of these boomers ripple fire all 154 Tomahawks.
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all of them being "specials" 
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Re: Versatility of converted subs earns praise
was sitting off the coast of FL in a small boat drifting and fishing years ago when a sub launched a test missile about 2000 yards off in the distance... scared the shit out of us...HTRN wrote:I wanna see one of these boomers ripple fire all 154 Tomahawks.
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we called the CG on the radio and complained... and were told that we shouldnt be in that area...
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