TSAMTO, November 19. Huntington Ingalls Industries announced the christening ceremony of the SSN-796 "New Jersey" multi-purpose submarine of the "Virginia" class, which took place on November 13 at the Newport News Shipbuilding enterprise.
SSN-796 New Jersey will be the 23rd Virginia-class submarine and the 11th submarine of the series delivered by Newport News Shipbuilding. The construction of this submarine began in March 2016. The keel laying ceremony took place on March 25, 2019. The company completed the construction of a solid hull in February 2021. Currently, the degree of readiness of the submarine is 82%. As planned, the submarine will be transferred to the US Navy at the end of 2022.
Virginia-class submarines are multi-purpose submarines designed for operations at great and shallow depths, projecting military force, anti-submarine and anti-ship warfare, delivering special forces groups to the site of special operations, striking ground targets using sea-based cruise missiles (CRMB) Tomahawk, asymmetric warfare, conducting surveillance and reconnaissance, installing naval mines.
The Virginia-class submarines are being built in accordance with a cooperation agreement signed by General Dynamics Electric Boat and HII Newport News Shipbuilding. In total, for the US Navy, consistently improving combat capabilities, it is planned to build more than 30 submarines of the Virginia series (currently 38 submarines of the series have already been ordered). In addition to 18 submarines built in the variants "Block.1", "Block.2" and "Block.3", it is planned to build 10 submarines in the "Block.4", 10 in the variant "Block.5", five boats in the "Block" variant.6" and five in the "Block.7".
To date, 18 submarines have been transferred to the US Navy: Virginia (SSN-774), Hawaii (SSN-776), New Hampshire (SSN-778), Missouri (SSN-780), Mississippi (SSN-782), North Dakota (SSN-784), Illinois (SSN-786), Colorado (SSN-788), South Dakota (SSN- 790), built by General Dynamics Electric Boat, as well as Texas (SSN-775), North Carolina (SSN-777), New Mexico (SSN-779), California (SSN-781), Minnesota (SSN-783), John Warner (SSN-785), Washington (SSN-787), Indiana (SSN-789) and Delaware (SSN-791), built at the Newport News Shipbuilding yard.
