USS Asheville (SSN-758)

6300 tons surfaced, 7100 tons submerged

110.3 m

10 m

9.7 m

12 officers, 115 teams

A S6G reactor

30 nodes

The USS Asheville ( SSN -758 ) is a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and is part of the Los Angeles- class. It is named after the city of Asheville, North Carolina.

History

The Asheville in 1984 at Newport News Shipbuilding commissioned, placed there in 1987 to Kiel and left after a construction period of three years from the stack. Entry into service with the U.S. Navy took place 1991.

In December 1996, Asheville was selected as a test platform for a new drone. Here, the start of a Sea Ferret Northrop Grumman was simulated by the submarine, while the drone was actually transported from a Cessna 206. Steering commands were successfully transferred from the submarine to the drone, as could the command are passed to ground-based teams.

To May 2005 was operating in late 2004, the Asheville in the Pacific and it took part in two exercises. She ran to the ports of Guam, Singapore, Saipan and Hawaii. In 2007 and 2010 drove the submarine for six months in the Pacific. In October 2010, Asheville practiced it together with her sister USS Topeka (SSN -754 ) and the Chilean Thomson, a boat of the German Class 209 Particularly, the focus was going to capture a modern diesel-electric boat and get to know its characteristics.