BREMERTON, Wash. -- The first of four conversions to allow older Trident submarines to carry 154 conventionally armed cruise missiles instead of 24 nuclear missiles has been completed.
The USS Ohio is ready to be transferred to a training center at St. Marys, Ga., where sailors will learn how to launch Tomahawk missiles from the converted subs.
The $1.1 billion conversion contract with General Dynamics Electric Boat was signed in 2002 and is expected to be completed by September 2007, according to company spokesman Robert Hamilton.
The Ohio was converted at the Puget Sound Navy Shipyard in Bremerton, Wash., and so will the USS Michigan, scheduled to be completed in December. Hamilton said the USS Florida, a few months behind the Ohio, will be completed by April at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Virginia. The USS Georgia conversion is slated for completion in September 2007, also at Norfolk.
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