USS New Mexico (SSN-779)

7925 tons submerged

115 m

10.4 m

9.5 m

134

A S9G reactor nozzle ring propeller

25 nodes

4 torpedo tubes, 12 vertical missile launch tubes

The USS New Mexico ( SSN -779 ) is a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy. It belongs to the Virginia class and was named after the U.S. state of New Mexico.

History

SSN -779 was given in 2003 in order and placed in April 2008 at Newport News Shipbuilding in Kiel. The end of 2008 the boat was baptized godmother was the wife of Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Cindy Giambastiani. On 18 January 2009, the dry dock of New Mexico was flooded and left the boat so that the stack. It was planned to hand over the boat end of September 2009 to the Navy and to put into service on 21 November. Having problems with the weapons control have become known in the torpedo room, the original schedule but had to be abandoned. End of December 2009, the Navy from the boat, about four months before the end of the committed period, which called for the delivery up to 30 April 2010. The commissioning took place at Naval Station Norfolk on 27 March 2010.