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2. SUBSAFE - Wikipedia

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   The Submarine Safety Program ( SUBSAFE) is a quality assurance program of the United States Navy designed to maintain the safety of its submarine fleet, specifically, to provide maximum reasonable assurance that submarine hulls will stay watertight, and that they can recover from unanticipated flooding. SUBSAFE covers all systems exposed to sea ...

3. Emergency main ballast tank blow - Wikipedia

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   Emergency main ballast tank blow. USS Columbus (SSN 762) performing an emergency ballast blow. An emergency main ballast tank blow is a procedure used aboard a submarine that forces high-pressure air into its main ballast tanks. The high-pressure air forces ballast water from the tanks, quickly lightening the ship so it can rapidly rise to the ...

4. USS West Virginia (SSBN-736) - Wikipedia

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   Armament. MK-48 torpedoes. 20 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles. USS West Virginia (SSBN-736) is a United States Navy Ohio -class ballistic missile submarine. She has been in commission since 1990. She is the third U.S. Navy ship to be named for West Virginia, the 35th state, and the 11th of 18 Ohio -class submarines.

5. USS Thresher (SSN-593) - Wikipedia

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   USS. Thresher. (SSN-593) USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine to be named after the thresher shark . On 10 April 1963, Thresher sank during deep-diving tests about 350 km (220 mi) east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, killing all ...

6. Saddle tank (submarine) - Wikipedia

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   Saddle tank (submarine) The German submarine U-995 at the German Navy memorial at Laboe, showing the starboard saddle tank as the elongated bulge along the side of the submarine. Saddle tanks are a type of ballast tank configuration fitted to submarines . Saddle tanks are fitted in pairs external to the pressure hull, one on each side, in a ...

7. Submarines in the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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   Submarines in the United States Navy. There are three major types of submarines in the United States Navy: ballistic missile submarines, attack submarines, and cruise missile submarines. All submarines currently in the U.S. Navy are nuclear-powered. Ballistic missile submarines have a single strategic mission of carrying nuclear submarine ...

8. List of submarine classes of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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   Prototype "fleet submarines"—submarines fast enough (21 knots (11 m/s)) to travel with battleships. Twice the size of any concurrent or past U.S. submarine. A poor tandem engine design caused the boats to be decommissioned by 1923 and scrapped in 1930.

9. Vent (submarine) - Wikipedia

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   Vent (submarine) The vents of the Redoutable are under the casing. The square openings in the casing are limber holes to facilitate draining the superstructure. In submarine technology a vent is a valve fitted to the top of a submarine 's ballast tanks to let air escape from the top of the ballast tank and be replaced by water entering through ...