USS Cheyenne (SSN-773)

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 Cheyenne ( SSN -773 ) is the most recently built nuclear submarine of the Los Angeles-class.

History

The USS Cheyenne was laid on 6 July 1992 at Kiel and released in April 1995 by the Newport News Shipbuilding stack. She was christened by the wife of the Senator from Wyoming, Mrs. Ann Simpson, after the city of Cheyenne. On September 13, 1996, she was found to be 62 and last unit of the Los Angeles-class in service. Her first commander was Commander Peter H. Ozimik. Your first home base after the test drives was from 1998 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

The Cheyenne served since then as a test platform for new sonar displays, which work on the basis of commercially available flat panel displays.

In July 2002, the Cheyenne abandoned as part of the carrier battle group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln ( CVN -72 ) Pearl Harbor to the west. On this mission, she participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where she was the first warship a volley BGM -109 Tomahawk fired.

In October 2004, the Cheyenne ran out to an operation in the western Pacific.

The Cheyenne in fiction

The Cheyenne was described in Tom Clancy's novel SSN, as they engaged in a conflict over the Spratly Islands. In the PC game to Tom Clancy's SSN, the Cheyenne is controllable.