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Saturday, February 09, 2013

Cruise-missile submarines on the way out

USS Michigan (SSGN 727) |The Navy has decided it can do without cruise-missile submarines.

The Navy recently removed the four boats, designated as SSGNs, from the list of combat vessels it “currently requires.”

The four subs — USS Ohio and USS Michigan at Bangor and USS Florida and USS Georgia at Kings Bay, Georgia — will patrol until their nuclear fuel is spent in the mid-2020s, said Navy spokeswoman Lt. Courtney Hillson.

No replacements will be built.

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