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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Navy Fears Pentagon Neglects New Missile Sub; SSBN(X) Must Survive Almost 80 Years

Ohio class submarine |Right now, the Navy is designing the ballistic missile submarine that will provide 70 percent of the nation's nuclear deterrent until 2080.

Yet even as the service prepares to award research and development contracts this December, the submarine community is deeply worried that the rest of the military is neglecting the program -- which has already had to make some painful trade-offs on schedule, numbers, and capability.

And the service has not even started work on whatever nuclear missile the new sub will end up carrying for the latter half of its life.

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