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USS Massachusetts (SSN-798), is a Virginia-class nuclear powered attack submarine currently being built for the United States Navy. She is the twenty-fifth boat of the class and the eighth vessel to be named for the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Then Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, announced the name on 8 November 2015 in an opinion piece for The Boston Globe. She is the first vessel to be named after the Commonwealth since the now-preserved battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) was decommissioned in 1947.
Massachusetts was part of a $17.6 billion contract awarded by the U.S. Navy to prime contractor General Dynamics Electric Boat to construct ten Virginia-class submarines.[ Her keel was laid 11 December 2020 at Newport News in a virtual ceremony because of the COVID-19 .
General characteristics
Class and type: Virginia-class submarine
Displacement: 7,800 tons
Length: 377 ft (115 m)
Beam: 34 ft (10.4 m)
Draft: 32 ft (9.8 m)
Propulsion: S9G reactor auxiliary diesel engine
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h)
Endurance: can remain submerged for up to 3 months
Test depth: greater than 800 ft (244 m)
Complement:
15 officers
120 enlisted
Armament: 12 VLS tubes, four 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes BGM-109 Tomahawk.
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