That is the US navy’s new submarine the USS Jimmy Carter is on it’s way to Washington state where it will based out of Kitsap.
Heavily Armed USS Jimmy Carter in Fleet
By CARA RUBINSKY, Associated Press Writer
GROTON, Conn. – The USS Jimmy Carter entered the Navy’s fleet Saturday as the most heavily armed submarine ever built, and as the last of the Seawolf class of attack subs that the Pentagon ordered during the Cold War’s final years.
The $3.2 billion Jimmy Carter was commissioned Saturday, the first named after a living ex-president. Carter, himself a former submariner during his time in the Navy, was on hand for the ceremony signaling the end of an era in submarining.
The 453-foot, 12,000-ton submarine has a 50-torpedo payload and eight torpedo tubes. And, according to intelligence experts, it can tap undersea cables and eavesdrop on the communications passing through them.
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