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Former Trident Ohio deploys Saturday after sub-change operation
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BANGOR, Wash. -- The Navy says the submarine Ohio departs Bangor Saturday for its first deployment since a $1 billion conversion.
Instead of carrying Trident nuclear missiles, the submarine carries 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles. It also can carry a 66-member special operation team that can leave and enter the sub under water through missile tubes.
The 560-foot sub is the first of four Trident submarines to be converted to carry cruise missiles. A second, the Michigan, also was converted at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and is in testing.
A third, the Florida, has been converted and is in testing at the King's Bay, Georgia, base where it will be joined later this year by the submarine Georgia.
Former Trident Ohio deploys Saturday after sub-change operation
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BANGOR, Wash. -- The Navy says the submarine Ohio departs Bangor Saturday for its first deployment since a $1 billion conversion.
Instead of carrying Trident nuclear missiles, the submarine carries 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles. It also can carry a 66-member special operation team that can leave and enter the sub under water through missile tubes.
The 560-foot sub is the first of four Trident submarines to be converted to carry cruise missiles. A second, the Michigan, also was converted at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and is in testing.
A third, the Florida, has been converted and is in testing at the King's Bay, Georgia, base where it will be joined later this year by the submarine Georgia.