USS Pittsburgh (SSN-720)

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 Pittsburgh (SSN -720 ) is a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and is part of the Los Angeles- class. It is named after the city of Pittsburgh.

History

The Pittsburgh in 1979, where at Electric Boat in order and four years later established there in Kiel. After a construction period of 19 months, the boat ran in late 1984 from the stack. On November 23, 1985, the official commissioning ceremony at the United States Navy.

The Pittsburgh was used in the Second Gulf War to fire cruise missiles of the type UGM -109 Tomahawk at targets in Iraq. Also, during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 scored the submarine cruise missiles against Iraq from.

Pittsburgh in 2008 began with the USS Vella Gulf (CG- 72) USS Mitscher ( DDG 57) and USS Carter Hall (LSD -50) at the Fleet Week Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida part. Following the submarine shifted to February 2009 in the southern Atlantic Ocean.