USS Newport News (SSN-750)

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 Newport News (SSN -750 ) is a nuclear submarine of the Los Angeles-class. The patron of the boat is the city of Newport News in Virginia, among other things, Newport News Shipbuilding is a resident.

History

SSN -750 was given in April 1982 in order and placed in March 1984 at Newport News Shipbuilding in Kiel. After two years in dry dock the final outfitting took place at the pier, after the first test drives the Newport News was officially put into service in 1989.

In 1991, the Newport News participated in Operation Desert Storm, and three years later the boat was ordered to the Persian Gulf. In 2002, the Newport News left her home port with the carrier battle group led by the USS George Washington ( CVN -73) and took the beginning of 2003 to Operation Iraqi Freedom in part. During this shot the boat cruise missile BGM -109 Tomahawk from on land targets in Iraq. For this was the then commander of the boat, Cmdr. Frederick J. Capria, the Bronze Star. The next deployment began in 2004 and led the boat to the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN -69) in the North Atlantic.

On 8 January 2007 the submarine collided on underwater journey with the Japanese tanker Mogamigawa. The Newport News hit the tanker with its bow at the rear. The boat was again as part of the Battle Group of the Eisenhower go, the battle group supported from the Arabian Sea out an attack on suspected Al- Qaeda fighters in Somalia. The submarine and the tanker both remained seaworthy, the Newport News drove in connection to Bahrain, where the damage were investigated in detail. The reason given was that the 300,000 displaced ts Mogamigawa drove away on the barely 7,000 ts big boat and there due to the Venturi effect " ansaugte ". On January 29, the commander of the Newport News, was Cmdr. Matthew A. Weingart, relieved of command. 2009 moved the submarine for six months in the Atlantic.