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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Rep. Forbes On The Shrinking Sub Fleet: HASC Hearing Preview

USS OhioTomorrow is a big day for Navy submarines on Capitol Hill. A hearing of the House Armed Services seapower and projections forces subcommittee will focus on some of the knottiest issues in undersea warfare:
  • staying ahead of the Russians and Chinese.
  • getting extra funding for the Navy’s new ballistic missile submarine, the SSBN-X.
  • keeping the production rate of the Virginia-class attack sub at two a year despite the sequester.
  • pushing ahead on the Virginia Payload Module, a multi-purpose launcher for both missiles and unmanned vehicles. Senate appropriators stripped all funding for the VPM.
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