Colombia class nuclear submarine laid down in the USA

In the United States laid the lead strategic nuclear submarine of the new generation "Columbia". Boats of this project as they become available to the Navy should replace the outdated Ohio-type strategic missile carriers.

In service with the US Navy today is 18 strategic nuclear submarines such as "Ohio." Underwater displacement 18,5 thousand tons. The length of the submarine - 170 meters with a diameter of 13 meters. Each ship is capable of carrying Trident 24 ballistic missiles. In addition, the submarines are equipped with four torpedo tubes caliber 533 millimeter.

According to the plans of the US Navy, new Columbia-type 12 submarines will be built, the first of which should be operational in the 2027 year, and from the 2031 year it will be on alert.

The details of the project are classified, it is known that in terms of displacement and length with diameter they are almost identical to submarines of the Ohio type. Each new submarine is planned to be equipped with Trident II D16 ballistic missiles 5. Service life is planned for 42, with no recharging required.

The submarine of the new generation will receive X-shaped stern rudders, as well as horizontal depth rudders installed on the wheelhouse. Instead of a screw on the submarine install water jet. The new ship will receive a fully electric propulsion system with permanent magnets. This installation will be powered by nuclear power plant turbogenerators. This design will make the ship quieter compared to submarines such as "Ohio".

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[Andrey83]

There were 18 boats of 24 missiles each, and there will be 12 boats of 16 missiles each ...
Is everything right?

[Blackmokona]

START 3 reduction

[Varreox.]

Because no one seeks to build up arms, except for the Russian Federation and other funny guys, like Iran.

[Aristarkh Lyudvigovich]

Quote from Varreox.

Because no one seeks to build up weapons, except for the Russian Federation

In Russia, arms are not being increased very much. As for the submarine fleet, judging by the latest news, everything is pretty sad.
"The multipurpose component of the Russian nuclear submarine is in a depressing state. Instead of a gradual restoration of its combat readiness, which we were promised, it began to simply melt before our eyes. As a result, over the past few years, the nuclear submarine forces of the Russian Navy have lost at least eight submarines of Soviet projects. The number is not final - it may increase due to the limited viability of our shipyards and the Olympic calm with which the main command of the Navy and the military-political leadership of the country look at the crisis of the nuclear submarine. Today, you can be quite confident in the combat readiness of only five multipurpose submarines - "Severodvinsk "(pr. 885, SF), Geparda (pr. 971.1, SF), Kuzbass (pr. 971, Pacific Fleet)," Pskov "(pr. 945A, SF) and Obninsk (pr. 671RTMK, SF), to a lesser extent - "Nizhny Novgorod" (Project 945A, SF). Another seven boats are under repair or awaiting repair - six Project 971 and one Project 671RTMK. Just think, the once great and mighty comp The general purpose of the USSR nuclear submarine fleet shrank to 13 units, half of which are not in operation. The situation is aggravated by an absurd delay in the delivery of Kazan due to some auxiliary components and assemblies. "
https://navy-korabel.livejournal.com/203848.html

[Vadim237]

In total, Russia has 64 submarines - some are under repair and modernization; they want to increase their number to 2025 by 84.

[mvg]

Today, you can be completely sure of the combat readiness of only five multi-purpose submarines

It's about strategists, what does MAPL have to do with it, in MAPL the situation is generally a disaster. They still have Elks walking (more than 30 pieces), Wolves (3 pcs), Virginia (15 pcs) I let down a couple a year ... Astyudes, Barracudas at Soyuznikoff. Total, under 60 units in the ranks against 5. And pr. 885 Severodvinsk is partially combat-ready. The rest are just old.

[Sarmat Sanych]

This British "navy shipbuilder" has already been ridiculed in all forums. Who said that "Samara" and "Magadan" are lost? For there, from the entire list, only 3 boats were really lost, but in 7 years, mattress makers may have ONLY 3 strategists left. This is a real degradation, despite the fact that for them nuclear submarines are everything, 46-year-olds who saw Brezhnev, “Minutemans”, two out of three fly (and then most likely ours are not just talking about their non-standard). And Russia has the main power in mines and PGRK. Although we are ahead of amers in terms of SSBNs.

[maximum 8]

Quote from Varreox.

Because no one seeks to build up arms, except for the Russian Federation and other funny guys, like Iran.

You probably don’t know that the United States has the largest budget of the American army in its history? Do you know about the US developments of the BRYJM or the new SDI 2.0 initiated by Trump? So who is building up the arms of the Russian Federation or the USA? It turns out that the funny guys are just the USA with their constant wars and conflicts, including with China, the Russian Federation, Iran, Turkey, the DPRK, the EU, Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc. China and the EU, the Russian Federation mean economic conflicts. So you don’t have to bring everything down with the patient head to healthy.

[K-612-O]

That's how you bothered already

[Ros 56]

Do you learn to learn from the striped under three hundred warships, and we have 83, who is building up this?

[boathouse]

It is believed that this is enough. Too expensive a pleasure to contain SSBNs.

[mvg]

Is everything right?

No. Ohio also carries IID5 Tridents. They don't all change right away. As Colombia is commissioned, Ohio will be written off in proportion, or altered under the CD. In Russia there will be 7-8 Boreyevs with 16 clubs each. pr 667BDRM are breathing "into the incense", and now there are not 18, but 3 things in the ranks.

[maximum 8]

Quote: mvg

Is everything right?

No. Ohio also carries IID5 Tridents. They don't all change right away. As Colombia is commissioned, Ohio will be written off in proportion, or altered under the CD. In Russia there will be 7-8 Boreyevs with 16 clubs each. pr 667BDRM are breathing "into the incense", and now there are not 18, but 3 things in the ranks.

No, Ohio will be written off because they are running out of reactor life. Otherwise, we would have Sharks forever serving.

[mvg]

Ohio will be written off as they run out of reactor life

I did not say that they would not. But the last Ohio will be decommissioned in 2040. She will be 42 years old, just the period of reactor production. They were built exactly one per year. If Colombia will be built in the same way, then by 2040 there will still be 9 Ohio in service. 21 strategists in the ranks. Trident can carry up to 14 BG at 100, 8x475 kt. Just according to START-3, the number of BGs is limited to 4 pcs. So the total number of we do not know. In sum - Dofiga can be.
And the 941 Shark, well, in addition to being unsuccessful, was decommissioned due to finances and due to the fact that the R-39 was no longer produced. The reactor can be refilled. Repair and modernization (near the Mace) went crazy money.
PS: Well, reworking Ohio under axes is very personal. 154 does not even have a Tiki ax.

[Sarmat Sanych]

What is "2040", calm down. Amers already have 6 out of 14 "Nuts" in continuous repairs, "by 2031 (when the first Columbia will actually be on the DB), 4 strategists rattling with bolts will remain.

[Vadim237]

It is better to convert the remaining three 941s with deep modernization, under the carrier of special weapons and robotic submarines.

[mvg]

refit three 941s with deep modernization

Those. assume that we simply cannot, religion does not allow? The fact that Akula has 50 tonnes, and it needs to be in dry dock, is that the boat is unsuccessful .. it turned out this way because of the R-000 missiles, which did not fit anywhere .. We have a bunch of nuclear submarines under repair, much more fresh condition, and much more interesting projects. We cannot repair the only aircraft carrier, build a normal diesel-electric submarine .. Fuck! goat button accordion and take on an obviously losing project? Why do you need an underwater cruiser with a displacement of 39 tons? Which will be drowned in the same way, when leaving the base ... as well as the 48000 tons of Dolphin, which carries more modern Sinev missiles. And for special weapons there are titanium 18000A Condor .. which are also under "repair", and there is no need to restore 945 reactors on the Akula.
PS: What are the advantages of Sharks? Crew pool?

[Vadim237]

Why would they drown them? The condor is too small to carry special armament with large deep-sea vehicles and strike systems. The Shark can be equipped with a torpedo defense system. NK Package. Now large dry docks are being built. The biggest plus for the Shark is a double divided hull - you cannot sink it with a single torpedo hit. Their functions will be mining, searching for and destroying enemy submarines, submarine drones, mines and torpedoes, using remotely controlled robotic attack submarines and, as a complement, rescue crews in distress of nuclear submarines, using special engineering rescue bathyscaphes - throughout the entire Arctic Ocean as well as in the Pacific.

[Ezekiel 25-17]

1536 warheads.

[Mountain shooter]

Correctly. 192 rockets. The cost of boats is already unbearable even for an Amerov printing press.

[knn54]

Interestingly, the type of missiles is the same, but 16 instead of 24. And the dimensions of the Virginia are the same as those of the Ohio?

[Pushkowed]

It seems that they will have mines of increased diameter. While Trident-2 will be charged there, but the reserve has been left for some larger promising missiles.

[Diana]

Everything is absolutely correct. The current US National Strategy for the application of SNYF only provides for the infliction of "unacceptable damage" (calculated according to their own criteria). And for this 12 SSBNs x 16 launchers SLBMs x 4 YABBs on each is quite enough. Even without a ground grouping of ICBMs.

[Andrey83]

After all, they still have to fly, and even to arrange a nuclear explosion ...

[Diana]

Nah - not all. An outfit - two nuclear warheads for each object target ...

[Andrey83]

It turns out only 380 goals ...

[Diana]

And more is not necessary. ISChO in the late 1980s, to inflict unacceptable damage to the United States from the Soviet Union, it was considered sufficient to defeat its ~ 400 "megaton-class" warheads. And even the then USA were far away not modern RF.
PS And don't forget - completely not the fact that the Yankees will hit for purely military purposes. AND not will hit political, economic and, most importantly, demographic goals ...

[maximum 8]

And the Yankees have that only the Russian Federation is a potential military rival? Now missile technology and nuclear weapons have gone into the hands of many "well-wishers" of America. We have achieved our goal. So do not forget about at least China, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan. About 400 warheads are ridiculous. Only Iran bought about 250 nuclear warheads in the former Soviet Union according to the CIA. Israel also has more than 250 warheads. START 3 sets a limit of 1550 warheads.

PS And do not forget - it’s not at all a fact that the Yankees will hit for purely military purposes. But they will not hit political, economic and, most importantly, demographic goals ...

The main thing is that the Yankees do not forget that they will fly too. And not the fact that they will start first, and not someone else. And then from your words no one will hit the Yankees and they supposedly can do whatever they want. Immortals or something?

[Diana]

Iran has no none warheads. This is a word.
And the Yankees do not want nuclear war - but they are not afraid of it either. Because they know for sure that they will win it. Russia is much more vulnerable to a nuclear strike than the United States, plus Russia will "arrive" from Britain and France. The PRC and Israel will remain neutral. India and Pakistan lack the potential to intervene in a "strategic showdown." North Korea too.
And yes - compared to Russia, the Yankees are still "immortal". Although only China is truly "immortal" in a nuclear war.

[maximum 8]

Quote: Diana

Iran has no none warheads. This is a word.
And the Yankees do not want nuclear war - but they are not afraid of it either. Because they know for sure that they will win it. Russia is much more vulnerable to a nuclear strike than the United States, plus Russia will "arrive" from Britain and France.

I’m not sure for France and Britain. There will only be losers in a nuclear war. It cannot be won. For Iran.

For about a decade, the West has been worried about Iran’s expanding technical capabilities for uranium production, being confident that Iran is working on a nuclear bomb, although the government continues to insist that its uranium enrichment program is exclusively peaceful.

When Iran began its nuclear program in the mid-1980s, I worked as a CIA spy inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The intelligence of the guards at that time found out about Saddam Hussein’s attempt to acquire a nuclear bomb for Iraq. The corps command came to the conclusion that they needed a nuclear bomb, because if Saddam had it, he would use it against Iran. At that time, two countries were at war.

More on the topic: Iraqi nuclear weapons in the new century

Mohsen Rezaei, then-Guard Commander, received permission from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to launch a covert program to acquire nuclear weapons. To this end, the Guardians came into contact with Pakistani generals and a Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.

Commander Ali Shamkhani traveled to Pakistan, offering billions of dollars for a bomb, but all negotiations ended instead with just blueprints and centrifuges. The first centrifuge was delivered to Iran on a Khomeini private jet.

As part of a second, but parallel attempt to acquire nuclear weapons, Iran turned to the former Soviet republics. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Iran longed for thousands of tactical nuclear weapons that were scattered across the former republics of the Union.

In the early 1990s, the CIA asked me to find an Iranian scientist who would testify that Iran has a bomb. The CIA learned that Iranian intelligence agents traveled to nuclear facilities throughout the former Soviet Union, and at the same time showed particular interest in Kazakhstan.

Muslim Iran actively courted Kazakhstan, which accounted for a significant part of the Soviet arsenal, and which was primarily Muslim, and Tehran was offering him hundreds of millions of dollars for the bomb. Soon there were reports that three nuclear warheads were missing. This was confirmed by the Russian General Viktor Samoilov, who dealt with disarmament issues for the General Staff. He admitted that three warheads disappeared from Kazakhstan.

Meanwhile, Paul Muenstermann, then vice president of the German Federal Intelligence Service, said Iran received two out of three nuclear warheads, as well as medium-range nuclear delivery vehicles from Kazakhstan. He also said that Iran had acquired four 152 mm nuclear munitions from the former Soviet Union, which were reportedly stolen and sold by former Red Army officers.

To make matters worse, several years later, Russian officials said that when comparing documents on the transfer of nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia, there was a discrepancy in as many as 250 nuclear warheads.

Last week, Matthew Nasuti, a former US Air Force captain who at one point was hired by the Department of State as an adviser to a provincial reconstruction team in Iraq, said that in March 2008, during a briefing on Iran at the State Department, an expert in the Middle East department told a group of people that it was a “well-known fact” that Iran had acquired tactical nuclear weapons from one or more former Soviet republics.

https://inosmi.ru/asia/20111028/176730988.html

[Diana]

Not sure about France and Britain.

If it comes to exchanging MNUs, both countries will inevitably participate in an "exciting process." Simply because there is no way to quickly identify - missiles were launched only from American boats or from allied boats as well. And the allies will inevitably be dealt a full-scale blow.
Regarding Iran. His nuclear program was launched under the Shah. By the way, the Iraqi nuclear program was launched both before the Iraq-Iran war and before the Islamic Revolution.

[Sarmat Sanych]

Compared to Russia, in a large-scale nuclear conflict, almost the entire globe is mortal. In fact, life will remain only in the most seismically active place on the planet - the Russian Plain, plus Australia and Antarctica. And Matrasia is the fastest suicide bomber, 80% of the population, military facilities and infrastructure on thin stripes of coasts, they will be washed away like midges in the ocean, numerous nuclear power plants and dams as targets, significantly less mine protection, the San Andreas, Kilauea, Fuego fault, Sierra Negra, the largest oil storage facilities in the world near the country's critical infrastructure, etc. - In short, the list is huge, Omeriga is a living 300 millionth corpse. Everything is logical.

[Sarmat Sanych]

Amendment: "seismically INACTIVE", which is the Russian Plain - the only safe place in the world.

[Diana]

Compared to Russia, in a large-scale nuclear conflict, almost the entire globe is mortal.

Yeah. Collective Duncan Mac Cloud straight. That's just - Mother Nature has a completely different opinion ... Pichalka ...

[Sarmat Sanych]

With all its supervolcanoes, huge defenseless coasts, pressure on giant dams and tectonic faults, Mother Nature just bury Mattress without burial service. Which is true in principle.

[Diana]

Remains a real trifle. Provoke super-ejaculation. Or activate a tectonic fault. Yes here is the pichalka - a person is not yet able to do this. Even "Sarmatians Nesanychi". But such things as the degree of urbanization, the risk of farming and the severity of winters - the survival of the population after the exchange of MEU will be affected without any fantasies ...

[Sarmat Sanych]

I was on a business trip, so I'm late answering your blowout. The degree of urbanization in Russia is one of the most stable on Earth for a large-scale nuclear war, this is well known to world analysts, plus in Russia (as opposed to the West) 90% of the housing stock is concrete houses a meter thick, and in Omerik the overwhelming number of houses is Essentially made of cardboard, you hit it with your foot. Unlike the majority on the forum, I know this directly, my sister is a citizen of the United States (LA), and my brother worked in St. Louis for a long time. Therefore, we are not even discussing the question of Russia's best security in a nuclear conflict, this is a medical fact. Now about Matrasia. 80% of its population and infrastructure on a thin coastline, I repeat - they will be easily washed away like midges in the toilet. "Status-6" with a cruising range of more than 10000 km, a cruising depth of 1000 meters and a caliber of 1,6 meters, similar in characteristics and tactics to the T-15, which is carried by the nuclear submarine 09852 "Belgorod" along with the nuclear submarine 09851 "Khabarovsk", and assignment in the catastrophic defeat of coastal cities, as a weapon of retaliation, tens of megatons as a gift. Maybe you want to argue with the former chief of the Main Staff of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel General V. I. Yesin? His words: "Once, after leaving the reserve, working in the apparatus of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I was on a trip to the USA - I was invited to a conference. A group of our and American experts was traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco. There were conversations on the bus. laughter And here the director of the Institute of the USA and Canada S. Rogov suddenly asks me: "Viktor Ivanovich, why are you silent, are you looking for familiar" beacons "for missiles?" And I, as the Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces General Staff, signed flight missions for each of our ICBMs. One of the aiming points was indeed on our way. Scientists from the RAS for us, the military, repeatedly calculated: if here, to the place where the tectonic plates break, send a couple of charges of 10 mt, then at least half of California will quietly slide into the Pacific Ocean, the rest of the coast will also cease to exist. I told my fellow travelers about it. Everyone fell silent. And the former head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John Shalikashvili, turned away to the window altogether ... "
For a year now I have been observing this nonsense about "someone in the US will still survive from a nuclear response." There are literate people who decided that they are more competent in assessing the scale of the destruction of nuclear weapons than the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, including Academician Aleksandrov, academicians of the Kurchatov Institute, as well as generals of the General Staff. About American and Japanese tectonic faults, Yellowstone, about the fact that waves from 50-megaton Russian torpedoes will simply wash away two coasts of amers and we don't even have to spend too much money on charges - they don't want to hear. And what happens when several nuclear power plants and a couple of nuclear waste sites (in one Hanford, 30% of the Earth's toxic waste) get into, what will Matrasia cost only 20 Chernobyls (in fact, Omeriga will have a hundred of them)? And there are also dams and hundreds of other options, which, with a minimum of spent warheads, will transmit the entire population of Americans like ants. And the fact that nuclear explosions can be amplified hundreds of times by making them not on the surface, this is in the current capabilities of hundreds of thousands of Hiroshimas (we remember what happened to one after a measly 20 kt) - have you heard? About the fact that this volcano, when activated, will simply incinerate the entire American continent and the fact that 80% of the population of Omeriga lives on the coasts, a bunch of naval and air force bases - generally keep quiet. It has long been calculated that three Voevods will be enough to break through the Yellowstone caldera, and 200 nuclear strikes are enough to destroy the United States, it is not at all necessary to plow the entire territory. Look at the map of the location of nuclear power plants in the world - these are the primary targets for strikes, as well as dams, hydroelectric power plants, large military bases and the enemy's strategic nuclear forces. With regards to Europe, it will get it from an OTR strike with special warheads and tactical nuclear weapons. It is necessary to take into account not only children's "radius of destruction of poisonous ammunition, but also dozens of other factors, including high-altitude explosions, which will disable all electronics and satellites. In Soviet times, it was planned to detonate several charges of 1Mt at high altitude over the United States. only 8 COMPLETELY cover the territory of the "exceptional." Or are we operating with the nonsense that "after nuclear missiles you can survive", based on the fact that people live and live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? So there were bombs in comparison with modern children's firecrackers, they didn't even detonate completely due to the fact that the charges were not really able to build.
By the way, the year before last, an earthquake of 8,2 occurred in Alaska and 7,2 in Mexico, last year powerful in both Alaska and Guatemala, the whole continent will be sausage in short, it is likely that Yellowstone will wake up and destroy Mattress in the coming years. And if you help him, it will flare up like a match. This year, the Earth slows down by 1 second, which has already led to a large number of strong earthquakes around the world, so there are all prerequisites for awakening Yellowstone. Plus, along with the Kilauea and Fuego volcanoes on the American continent, the 3rd woke up - Sierra Negra. Vanga's prophecy begins to come true))).

[Sarmat Sanych]

For Russia, 24 Ohio's will not be enough, not to mention 12 (especially since they have only been on duty for the last 8 years, the rest have been on sick leave for a long time). But our 11 SSBNs will calmly bomb Matrasia in the Stone Age, such are the features of infrastructure, geology and geography of the staff.

[Diana]

And what is your "11 SSBN" KOP? And then, they say that more than 2 "SSBN" in the sea do not go ...

[Sarmat Sanych]

We have three come out, wake up. Yes, and one more thing - "Gadgets" are not even theoretically capable of more than 4-fold salvo, and for the last quarter of a century, even a double one. Structural feature, after each test, rattling bones weave into the dock, so that they cannot destroy even 10% of our objects. But ours easily make 20-fold in 4 seconds, both new and early projects. As well as 16-fold, the mattress knows this very well, and therefore understands that it will die along with the "allies" and Russia will live on.

[Diana]

Sure sure.
1) it’s 1-2 in fact;
2) "Ohio" is able to launch all of its 22 in just over 5 minutes;
3) Well, Russia, after exchanging MEU with the USA, Britain and France, will, of course, remain alive. As the territory of China. What? The idea of ​​"Yellow Russia" at the beginning of the XX century. already nominated ...

[Sarmat Sanych]

Did you miss the procedure?)) "Nuts" have never been able to launch 5 SLBMs and mattress toppers by the way know this very well. And Sinanthropy will be destroyed first during a large-scale nuclear conflict, and twice in 20 minutes.

[Diana]

You do not seem to have attended the procedure at all. But in vain - they are clearly shown to you.
Ohio is capable of launching 22 SLBMs in 5 minutes. If we count from the time the order was received while being in a state of maximum readiness for launch, then in 7 minutes. The Americans, and most importantly, their SLBMs and their warheads, do not care whether you believe it or not.
"Not right ...!, I'm not ve ...!, - the alligator sighed ... and full, dived into the green water ..." (c)
And to destroy China as a viable society - not enough of all nuclear warheads (including tactical ones) of the whole world.

[Sarmat Sanych]

Бггг) 80% of the population of Sinanthropy is located on a tiny piece of the southeast of the country plus the coast (one Poseidon carrier is enough), I am already silent about the same super-dangerous seismic position, even India will send them all to the grave)).
And for the rest, you carry such nonsense that it can be entered into the Paris Chamber of Weights and Measures as etaoon stupidity, "Gadgets" have never launched even 5 SLBMs, and the last quarter of a century even 3 cannot launch, the last pair launch was several years ago with almost 5 -hour interval, they were afraid to screw up again after two failures with their launch and the launch of Anglicos, plus in the same months they had the Minuteman kirdyknul after the start

[Diana]

If to your indestructible confidence to add at least a little more knowledge. "Ohio" really cannot, while on combat patrol, launch more than two training SLBMs - because only two silos are occupied by training SLBMs on board.
All your other fantasies are about the same level of competence. I understand that it is advisable to study Wikipedia in general, and both Russian and Ukrainian Wikipedia - in particular - a fierce bad manners, but you should at least read RuViki, honestly!

[Sarmat Sanych]

Ahahah)) A wonderful donkey faith with a donkey stubbornness that the mattress has never rocked to launch more than 4 rackets (and the last half century even two), but still.

[Sarmat Sanych]

The mattress makers actually have a complete Achtung with strategic nuclear submarines, only 14 out of 8 are on the move, the rest are in permanent repairs, problems with preparing for the construction of Columbia are already accumulating, and this is not only a lack of welders of the required qualifications and numbers.

USA DOES NOT HAVE MONEY FOR UPDATING THE NUCLEAR TRIAD:
In America, there was a small, but very significant sensation. Strategic Forces Commander General D. Heiten gave the White House and the Department of State very conflicting advice. He certainly supports Trump’s decision to withdraw from the INF Treaty and radically revise START-3, but he also requires the authorities to decide: either they must find money for current requests in the field of national security or they should agree with the Russians on reducing the size of the American arsenal. 
The comedy of what is happening is that it happened shortly after the solemn signing by the owner of the Oval Office of a new military budget for a record $ 700 billion.
The backbone of the naval unit, the strategic Ohio, are completely outdated and do not meet modern requirements. The most recent was built in 97, and the first was transferred to the fleet back in 1981. However, the first four copies of the series were removed from combat duty and re-equipped with Tomahawks. The remaining 14 are forced to spend at least 60% of the time at sea, which has a bad effect on the material and condition of the crews. Six of them have practically not been on duty in recent years. For tactical, technical and financial reasons, they should be replaced with the latest Columbia class submarines. Considering the construction timeframe, even if the process starts now, the physical assembly on the slipway will not begin until 2021, which means that the fleet will receive the first boat of the series only in 2031. 
But even in this case, there is a serious risk that by that time the fleet will be able to keep no more than 2-3 SSBNs on duty due to technical wear and tear, which is absolutely unacceptable strategically. And if the deadlines move for any reason, then America will face the prospect of an inevitable reduction in the size of the combat outfit to one boat. In the sense - one on duty, one goes home, one is preparing to leave, the rest are in different degrees of repair.
In addition, all 405 mine "Minuteman-3" and strategic bombers standing on duty are outdated. With the latter, it came to a general curiosity. All the latest systems are being removed from service, and the main air carrier of nuclear weapons remains the B-52 that fought in Vietnam, the service life of which had to be extended to 90 years.
No, it may hold out until the middle of the century, the machine is reliable, but if the B-21 Raider project is not launched during this time, then the air component from the US nuclear triad will inevitably be excluded.
In general, all this requires money. And now. Up to at least $ 400 billion in the next 8 years and at least $ 1,2 trillion over thirty. The Budget Office of the US Congress confirmed these figures with a slight amendment. Taking into account the inevitable inflation, the total is likely to reach 5 trillion.
As usual, the generals have all the plans ready, the estimates have been agreed, the projects have been approved, and in general "the army is at a low start." One problem is that the current composition of the Congress stubbornly says that the country does not have such a breakthrough of money for the army. Of course, not quite, America is still the richest country on the planet, but alas, so that just so much and for everything, alas.
Something must be sacrificed, but the generals absolutely do not know what exactly. Because it was usually done before, cutting off just a little everywhere, for the nuclear triad is fatal, since you can be left without everything at all.

[Pashhenko Nikolay]

That's right, but if we ignore the law of conservation of momentum, then if it departs somewhere, somewhere it arrives. The number of warheads will not decrease. It will simply switch to other carriers. To cruise missiles of surface ships and others.

[Medvezhya lapa over Ki]

The key word is "laid." Who pays? At what interest rate?
Again under government bonds?
Why not all the countries of the world claim their share?

[Boa kaa]

Quote: Medvezhya lapa nad Ki

Why not all the countries of the world claim their share?

Sir, you have the wrong address:
"Science fiction and fantasy department - on another site!" (at)

[genisis]

The project stalled. According to the audit report from 2017, a critical problem was identified - the industry cannot solve the technological problems inherent in the project.
https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/689133.pdf#page44
In 2019, a report was released that confirmed a serious lag behind the schedule for building the boat. Far from the fact that it will generally be built in the project that was planned.

[genisis]

Here is an excerpt from the December 2017 report.
“Based on our assessment of the Navy's documentation, IPS, mover and SAS are not yet at TRL 7, and thus pose a risk, given their current level of demonstrated maturity and the importance of matching program cost, schedule and performance requirements. Our previous work on best shipbuilding practices has shown that the maturity of a technology must be proven before a project can be considered stable, and production results cannot be guaranteed until a stable project is demonstrated. In May 2009, we recommended that prior to concluding a contract for detailed design, new technologies critical for ships should be turned into real prototypes of the system and successfully demonstrated in the operational environment (TRL 7). The Department of Defense concurred with this recommendation, but added that modeling and simulation should be considered appropriate in some cases instead of actually testing the prototype.
While the navy has made progress in reducing technical risks in many areas, such as the start of construction of the first CMC, in September 2017 the program (according to the Navy) entered into a detailed design contract with several key technologies that did not exist yet at the level of TRL 7.,
The nuclear reactor, IPS, propulsion and coordinated feed, as well as SAS, have a potentially significant impact on the design and construction of the Columbia class, as they cover most of the submarine's construction and physical structure. Based on our analysis, we found that IPS, SAS, propulsion, and coordinated feed are not yet at TRL 7, as shown in Figure 11. The nuclear reactor and CMC are in the process of developing prototypes, but still require testing in the operating environment. ”
The report for 2019 says that these issues remained in the same condition. Given that the boat is on the slipway, and the reactor for it is not yet materialized even in the prototype, there are vague suspicions that the matter will drag on)

[genisis]

A little more alarm))
“Some key technical efforts remain immature as the Columbia training program moves into the development phase, a practice that runs counter to the best practices we identified earlier. These efforts include an integrated energy system, a nuclear reactor, propulsion / coordinated feed, a feed zone system and a common rocket compartment. While the navy has made progress in some areas, such as prototyping the rocket compartment and nuclear reactor, all of these systems still need to be developed and tested to bring them to TRL 7, and this section of the GAO Technology Readiness Guide considers technology mature. Any problems during the development process may put the program at risk of high cost, take longer to develop, or jeopardize the program’s ability to meet expected performance requirements. However, the Navy identified only two of the submarine technologies as “critical” in the 2015 TRA program, thereby underestimating the technological risk in the program. Inadequate reporting of technical risks may impede the full understanding by Congress and other decision makers of the progress of the program. This is especially important because the Navy has already requested $ 1,6 billion for pre-procurement and recently entered into a detailed design contract. Moreover, the Navy is not required to report to Congress on its progress in technology development and testing until the program completes its production readiness review in May 2020, when the Navy requests another 8,7 billion. Doll. US to finance the construction of a leading submarine. "

[genisis]

The US Navy knows:
"In the morning money - in the evening chairs, in the evening money - in the morning chairs"

[OLD FART]

According to the plans of the US Navy, new Columbia-type 12 submarines will be built, the first of which should be operational in the 2027 year, and from the 2031 year it will be on alert.

This is purely intimidating Russia .. I think their gut is weak to press the button. (Too much to lose).
But Russia has nothing to lose if they begin to pinch us on all fronts .. So think gentlemen, who are you targeting these weapons
On our submarines, liberalists and socialists do not serve .. Afraid! Everything is too complicated there and danger

[Diana]

Well, how can I say ... There is an interesting thesis: "Why do we (the United States in the sense) need the world in which Russia exists?" "In the end, if there is a nuclear conflict, we (the Americans) will go to heaven, and they (the Russians) will simply die!"

[maximum 8]

Petrosyan just won’t take you with such jokes. So it’s better to stop on time. Otherwise Zelensky will hear you and take you to the quarter. You won’t wish the enemy like that either. You’ll tell ridiculous jokes for a couple.

[poquello]

Quote: maximum 8

Petrosyan just won’t take you with such jokes. So it’s better to stop on time. Otherwise Zelensky will hear you and pick you up

he’ll take him to the government, and Trump hears the government’s take too, the jokers are also quoted there, and he himself isn’t a miss - he threatens to get 75% in the next election, although Sanders would lose in the past

[Diana]

Koshevoy is now driving the "quarter". And he certainly won't take me to him. I love "black" humor, and the audience prefers a more cheerful one.
But seriously - the movement "Better to be dead than red!" in the States has already been. And it was popular.

[Thrifty]

Interestingly, do they already have technologies for creating a permanent magnet propulsor, or will they feverishly try to create something as the submarines are built?

[K-612-O]

To do this is not a problem, we also had experiments in Afrikantov, but: Here the issue of generating a constant EMF, albeit compensated, but the signature will spread, besides low-frequency, which will give out its location under water, and the magnetization of the body must be compensated, he is not composite.

[Dzafdet]

This is not that Trident, but modernized ..

[Andrey83]

With castrated warheads?

[Sarmat Sanych]

No upgrades are foreseen. We tried to come up with something, but refused. By the way, the 30-year-old T2 began to fly worse and worse, in 2015 the Britos had an unsuccessful launch, in 2016 the amers had a partially unsuccessful start. A salvo was not fired in a quarter of a century, and the last double was at an interval of FOUR HOURS. It looks like a karachun "trident" and its bearer comes.

[Dzafdet]

Quote: Thrifty

Interestingly, do they already have technologies for creating a permanent magnet propulsor, or will they feverishly try to create something as the submarines are built?

It has long been implemented: a permanent magnet synchronous motor. The trick is that they will throw out the gearbox and reduce the noise of the propulsion system ...

[Vadim237]

By this time, materials will appear that will be able to absorb sound waves to zero - even using the oldest equipment - reactors, turbines.

[malyvalv]

Treble and so on. You cannot absorb the low ones. The wavelength does not allow. And the most nasty thing is that they spread farthest.

[Vadim237]

Neither materials - so radiation or a special liquid - it will be possible to absorb it all a matter of time.

[malyvalv]

Creating an anti-gravity engine is also a matter of time.

[Vadim237]

That's how antigraviton will be discovered - then you can think about an antigravity engine, and gravitons actually opened in 2016 when they recorded gravitational tidal waves - for which the guys got the Nobel Prize.

[Torquemada]

And why did you decide that the project has a synchronous motor? Maybe they decided to use permanent magnet magnets.

[Sarmat Sanych]

Indeed, they have long voiced it on paper, but in fact - shish. Which, in principle, is logical for amers.

[traper]

Permanent magnets on a submarine is buzzing.

[Old26]

Quote: Andrey83

There were 18 boats of 24 missiles each, and there will be 12 boats of 16 missiles each ...
Is everything right?

This was at first the number of boats was reduced to 14 (4 boats were converted into a carrier of "tomahawks". Then, according to the START-3 treaty, 4 mines on the boats were deactivated all the armatures intended for launches ... That is, now there are 280 missiles on the boats. The Columbia will have 192. At the first stage, it is planned to use the Trident D-5, in the future Trident E-6. The number of warheads on them may be increased and equal to what is now on the Ohio.

[Boa kaa]

The United States has laid the foundation for the new-generation lead strategic nuclear submarine, Columbia.

Well, if the "cutting of steel" for the "Columbia" hull can be called a "bookmark" - then yes.

Project details are classified ...

But this is an excuse and unwillingness to "dig" information from the media ... So what is (still) known?
1. Dimensions... Columbia - 171m long and 13m PC diameter. Thus, the new SSBN is a meter longer and a foot thicker "Ohio".
2. Displacement - Columbia will have more - 20 815 tons instead of 18 750 tons from Ohio.
3. Using. Service as part of the Navy for 42 and a half years. At each moment in time, on duty in the oceans will be up to 4-5 SSBN type "Columbia". Each boat is expected to perform 124 combat services. The duration of the planned combat service will be 77 days. Between hikes, maintenance work from 35 to 50 days. After 10 and 30 years of operation, six-month maintenance periods are provided. To this is also added a two-year overhaul after years of operation 20.
4. Combat equipment and wearable weapons. One of the novelties of the Columbia-type SSBN will be the Universal Missile Department Module (CDM), which simultaneously receives the 4 ICBM. The node has an alternative designation that can be translated as “quad pack” (quad pack). Already during the primary phase of construction, the module is integrated into the housing. At the Ohio-type submarine, launchers were mounted into the ship hull separately and only after the submarine was completed. It is reported that "Columbia" has a maximum modularity of design. About 70 percent of the components, as well as various design elements of the Virginia-type submarine, are supposed to be taken over or modified for use on the new generation SSBNs. These include:
• absorbent coating of the ship's hull;
• a special propeller drive that reduces cavitation and noise signature and increases maneuverability;
• located on the stern X-shaped guide elevator (provides greater speed and better maneuverability in the surface position);
• masts with digital sensors instead of a periscope, which eliminates the structural vulnerability in the hull that occurs during the through installation of the periscope and allows you to transfer the picture from the sensors to various workstations of the nuclear submarine;
• wide-aperture GAS antenna (Large Aperture Bow Array) in the spherical bow of the ship with a thousand active and passive sensors; antenna components are non-replaceable for the entire 42-year life of the ship;
• ship navigation system, joystick digital control, electronic systems;
• cooling system.
Based on the equipment of the Columbia-type SSBNs of the Trident II D-16 5 SLBM, all 12 series boats will have the maximum 192 ballistic missiles with minimum 1536 warheads and the 2688 maximum. Trident II D-5 provides two equipment options: either up to 8 thermonuclear warheads W88 with a blast of 475 kilotons or up to 14 W76 warheads with a power of 100 kilotons; But they are on duty on duty with the 6 BB type W76, with the QUO 90-120m.
5. Crew SSBN "Columbia", according to preliminary information, will be about 155 people. But! As on the last "Virgins" the service of female submariners is supposed. Apparently, as in the case of the Ohio-class SSBN, the Columbia will have two replacement crews - Gold and Blue according to the American classification.
6. Mine PU. Diameter - 2210 mm, but the length is 1,0 m longer than that of "Ohio". This involves equipping Columbia in the mid-30s with a new SLBM, possibly under the GZBB.
It's just for some time paging I-neta. So, dear moderators, it is necessary to carefully, carefully ....
AHA.

[gregor6549]

The people, what's the point in increasing the number of submarines without a corresponding increase in the surface and air component of the Navy?
After all, one submarine elementary block in their bases and the missiles launched by them will try to intercept another takeoff. After all, this is the meaning of the current deterrence strategy, which the United States is trying to implement, in which they are trying in every way to bring their nuclear weapons, as well as sea-based missile defense systems, to the Russian terrorists. They are not going to fight with Russia for many reasons, but to keep it under control, so as not to be confused under their feet, or to disarm if they start to rock the boat, they really want to.
And what with this strategy gives an increase in the number of submarines in the Russian Navy for another couple of three units? Maybe it makes sense to pay more attention to covering the deployment, as well as maintaining the combat capability of existing submarines, so that they are more in the sea-Akiyan (preferably closer to the States) and less dangling waiting for their turn for repairs and maintenance?

[Sarmat Sanych]

Even the Malig Una missiles of the 50s are not able to intercept the Americans, not to mention our 80s times, which we have already shot. And the fact that Russia is in service now (I’m silent about the promising one in general) - they don’t shine on mattresses there and intercept 2%. But we can easily erase Omerigu from the face of the Earth, and the point is not that the SSBNs can easily shoot from the pier, there’s enough of the fifth that is located on land near Russia.

[Old26]

Quote: Boa constrictor KAA

Based on the equipment of the Columbia-type SSBNs of the Trident II D-16 5 SLBM, all 12 series boats will have the maximum 192 ballistic missiles with minimum 1536 warheads and the 2688 maximum. Trident II D-5 provides two equipment options: either up to 8 thermonuclear warheads W88 with a blast of 475 kilotons or up to 14 W76 warheads with a power of 100 kilotons; But they are on duty on duty with the 6 BB type W76, with the QUO 90-120m.

You, Alexander, are not quite right in these calculations. The Americans created about 88 W-400 warheads, they were equipped with 2 Ohio boats if they carried 8 blocks of missiles. Everything else is W-76.

[Dzafdet]

Quote: Torquemada

And why did you decide that the project has a synchronous motor? Maybe they decided to use permanent magnet magnets.

Sparking brushes. And dimensions be healthy. It is necessary to set up reactors in order to quench inductive current surges, heating .. There is nothing good in constant currents ...