USS Omaha (SSN-692)

6300 tons surfaced, 7100 tons submerged

110.3 m

10 m

9.7 m

12 officers, 115 teams

A S6G reactor

30 nodes

4533 -mm torpedo tubes

The USS Omaha (SSN -692 ) was a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and was among the Los Angeles - class. The boat was named after Omaha, Nebraska.

History

The contract to build SSN- 692, was issued in early 1971 at the Electric Boat, a shipyard from the General Dynamics Corporation. Two years later, the keel was laid, the construction lasted just over three years. Godmother for the Omaha was the wife of Roman Hruska, the former senator from Nebraska. In 1978 the commissioning of the submarine. The Omaha drove in the Pacific Fleet.

In 1995, after only 17 years of service, the Omaha was decommissioned. Therefore saved the U.S. Navy, the cost of the upcoming replacement of the reactor fuel, as well as the operating costs are saved. The reduction of the fleet was due to geopolitical changes, including the end of the Cold War.

Currently the submarine is in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, where it should be canceled from October 2007 in the Ship- Submarine Recycling Program.