The United States continues to rapidly strengthen the water area on both its coasts. So, the other day the American fleet was replenished with new atomic submarines. On February 2, the USS South Dakota submarine was on combat duty.
This submarine was laid in 2013, and in August 2018 it was handed over to the fleet for acceptance tests. The new nuclear submarine is already the third warship named South Dakota in the US Navy. She received the board number SSN 790, is the 17th of 48 planned for construction, as well as the seventh submarine of the Virginia type Block III modification.
The US Virginia class submarines of the Block III series differ from previous models with a modified nose section. In addition, the submarines of this series have not twelve, but only two rocket mines with a diameter of about 2.2 m with turret launchers, each of which contains six Tomahawk BGM-109 cruise missiles. In addition, the boat is armed with four torpedo tubes. The crew of the submarine has 134 people.
Its South Dakota variety belongs to the category of low-noise submarines designed to combat ground targets, enemy ships at deep and shallow depths, including performing special operations in coastal waters.
