USS Wyoming (SSBN-742)

Surfaced 16,764 tons, 18,750 tons submerged

170.7 m

12.8 m

11.1 m

15 officers, 140 sailors

A S8G reactor

Dipped 20 kn

24 ICBMs, 4 torpedo tubes

The USS Wyoming (SSBN-742) is a nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and is part of the Ohio - class. As Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear she leads with 24 ICBMs.

History

The contract to build the Wyoming, was issued on October 18, 1989 at Electric Boat, a subsidiary of General Dynamics. The keel was laid on 8 August 1991 at the shipyard of EB in Groton, Connecticut. The submarine was left after nearly four years of construction on 15 July 1995 by the stack and baptized in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Godmother was Mrs. Monika B. Owens. The commissioning of the ship in the United States Navy on 13 July 1996.

Add the following to the commissioning days, the Wyoming led first tests on the high seas. This took place off the east coast of the USA. The fact that the ship in how the Navy officially confirmed on 17 July 1996 off Long Iceland continued, fueled conspiracy theories that the submarine could be implicated in the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800. This denied the Navy, however.

On July 26th of that year, the Wyoming finally reached their home base, Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia, where she was in 2006 still stationed and performed as part of the nuclear deterrent patrols with 24 intercontinental ballistic missiles Trident II D5 type.