USS Texas (SSN-775)

7925 tons submerged

115 m

10.4 m

9.5 m

134

A S9G reactor nozzle ring propeller

25 nodes

4 torpedo tubes, 12 vertical missile launch tubes

The USS Texas ( SSN -775 ) is a nuclear submarine of the Virginia class.

History

The contract to build the Texas, was issued in 1998 at the Newport News Shipbuilding. The keel-laying ceremony was held in 2002 at the shipyard of the company, which belongs to Northrop Grumman, on the shipyard in Newport News, Virginia instead. The boat was christened by First Lady Laura Bush in the name of Texas, according to the U.S. state of Texas. The speech at the ceremony on 31 July 2004 was given by the Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.

In 2005, the boat was launched and began its first dynamic tests, called initial or Alpha Sea Trials. This ended the Texas in May 2006 successfully, whereupon followed a dockyard time, were eliminated in the last error. On 9 September 2006, the boat was officially submitted to the United States Navy in service. Since 2009, there has been stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In October 2009, the Texas surfaced near the North Pole. Thus, it was the first boat in its class, which operated in Arctic waters. The first regular use led the submarine from May to August 2010 in the eastern Pacific, where it acted under the command of the Joint Interagency Task Force South. In June 2011, the submarine moved into the western Pacific, on the way it went, among other ports in Japan and South Korea.