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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Sub will be next North Carolina namesake

Nuclear craft, being built in Virginia, will join fleet in '08

Virginia-class submarineUnlike the showboating Battleship North Carolina, now a tourist attraction with a famous profile, the Navy's newest USS North Carolina will be a sleek nuclear submarine that aims to stay out of sight.

When the sub joins the fleet in about two years, it will carry some of the military's newest gadgets. The ship will be able to attack with missiles, torpedoes and mines or skulk silently to snoop or drop off special operations teams.

The sub, under construction at a Virginia shipyard, will be the fourth Navy vessel to carry the North Carolina name. It also will be the fourth in a new class of submarines designed for warfare after the Cold War, when the primary adversary was the Soviet Union.

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