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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Admiral: Military needs to replace submarines at Navy base along Georgia coast

Ohio class SSBNThe Navy needs to replace the aging Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, and it needs to do it on schedule, the chief of naval operations said Tuesday during a visit to the base.

"We have to build an Ohio replacement," Adm. Jonathan Greenert told an audience that included elected officials from Georgia and Florida. "It will happen, and it will be done right. The first ship will be on patrol in 2031."

The British Navy is also planning to build a new fleet of ballistic missile submarines, and will share the same nuclear missiles as those on the next generation of submarines that will be built in the United States.

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