The US Navy has implemented an option for the tenth Virginia class nuclear submarine of the new Block V modification

The US Navy exercised an option to the contract for nine Virginia Block V submarines and ordered the construction of the tenth submarine of the new version. The portal defensenews.com reports.

On December 2, 2019, the shipbuilding company General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. (GDEB, part of General Dynamics Corporation) has been awarded a contract for the construction of nine state-of-the-art Virginia Block V-class nuclear submarines for the US Navy. The contract provided for an option for another submarine, which the US Navy exercised on March 20, 2021.

The cost of the long-term contract is 22,21 billion, and taking into account the construction of the tenth - 24,097 billion dollars. The introduction of nine submarines into the US Navy is planned from 2025 to 2029, there is no information on the tenth yet.

According to the primary contract, eight of the nine new submarines are to be equipped with Virginia Payload Module (VPM) weapon modules. The tenth submarine is likely to receive these modules as well.

Unlike the submarines of previous modifications, the Virginia Block V submarines have an additional section of about 70 feet (21 m) in length, which can accommodate four Virginia Payload Module (VPM) modules. Each of the four modules has seven vertical launchers for Tomahawk cruise missiles. Given the two launchers for six missiles stored in the bow of the boat, the submarine can carry up to 40 cruise missiles in vertical launchers.

In addition, VPMs can be used to accommodate other types of advanced weapons, as well as remote-controlled and autonomous underwater vehicles, as well as means of transport for combat swimmers.

The total length of the boat Virginia Block V in comparison with previous versions will increase from 115 m to 138 m, and the total underwater displacement - from 7900 to 10200 tons.

Comments

[Doccor18]

The introduction of nine submarines into the US Navy is planned from 2025 to 2029, there is no information on the tenth yet.

The impression is twofold ... On the one hand - respect and envy, on the other - it's the enemy ...

[OgnennyiKotik]

Virginia Block V-class submarines have an additional section, approximately 70 feet (21 m) long, containing four Virginia Payload Modules (VPMs).

It is planned to install hypersonic missiles in these modules under the IR-CPS program. According to the presentation, there are 3 missiles per block.

[New Year day]

Quote: OgnennyiKotik

It is planned to install hypersonic missiles in these modules under the IR-CPS program.

This means that we are not alone in hypersound! All this is the arms race

[SovAr238A]

Quote: Silvestr

Quote: OgnennyiKotik

It is planned to install hypersonic missiles in these modules under the IR-CPS program.

This means that we are not alone in hypersound! All this is the arms race

Those. we farted all over the world, with piece hypersonic units, having no carriers for these missiles, no money for the production of either the missiles themselves, or potential carriers ...

And now it turns out. that the enemy, "frightened" (precisely in quotes ") of our bunch, began to massively seed his army with real hundredths of hypersonic carriers and the hypersonic missiles themselves.

And in 5 years we will see the very real picture.

Dozens of carriers of strategic (and it, due to its speed and range characteristics, can already be a strategic factor) hypersound with them ...
And all the same 3 pieces of MiG-31K we have ...

Enemies in our military-industrial complex and our Army ...
They dig a hole for themselves.

[ironic]

So it seems like K-shek 20 pieces? 10 in the southern direction and thereabouts beyond the Urals.

[Rzzz]

The MiG-31 has not been produced for a long time, they have nowhere else to become. Only conversion from other options.
But all the same, everything that is 31st, they are already very old (the freshest are suitable for 30 years), and probably many are "tired" who will soon be written off, so there is probably no point in re-equipping them.

[Tektor]

Do you know how many MiG-31s ​​are there in the Russian army, including "canned food"? There are 240 of them. So getting a hundred out of the mothballed and making them the MiG-31K is not a problem.

[ironic]

As you can see, not everything is so simple, because the hundred were definitely not taken out and not so many refurbished.

[Rzzz]

And where to get the motors? Also not available. And the resource of a supersonic motor is very small. There is something in stock, but what next?

And the motors are the most obvious. There are thousands of parts on the plane with a limited resource, and for many now there may be difficulties associated with the fact that factories have closed.

[Tektor]

Motors are also in canned food: there are more than 1000 of them riveted.

[ironic]

But two groups, from what they wrote in open sources, were re-equipped. Probably relatively fresh. I don’t remember exactly how many. In the south, I remember that it was 10.

[Nastia makarova]

Why are you farts in Ukraine?

[ironic]

The enemy will become if on the battlefield, but for now the enemy.

[Thrifty]

We need to develop the anti-submarine component of the fleet! New ships, new weapons, new search systems for enemy submarines. Separately, to build high-speed submarines purely torpedo, the purpose of which is the submarines of the NATO countries.

[APASUS]

Quote: Thrifty

We need to develop the anti-submarine component of the fleet!

And who is against it? As always, everything rests on money in our country, they can find them for the Olympics, but there is no money for a new torpedo.

Quote: Thrifty

New ships, new weapons, new search systems for enemy submarines.

Something is hard to believe, we do not print dollars, therefore we do not pledge in series of 10 PL

Quote: Thrifty

Separately, to build high-speed submarines purely torpedo, the purpose of which is the submarines of the NATO countries.

Can high-speed sea hunters robots. Cheaper and faster in production

[Cananecat]

Quote: APASUS

Can high-speed sea hunters robots. Cheaper and faster in production

And how will they be managed? How will the identification be carried out? For the same money, it is better to promote torpedo armament.

[SovAr238A]

Quote: APASUS

And who is against it? As always, everything rests on money in our country, they can find them for the Olympics, but there is no money for a new torpedo.

It's not really about the money.
And in two ways.

First.
Now we do not have a real educational and scientific base that could teach someone "signal processors", for example ....
What would those. who could be taught - could further develop this segment of science and technology.


Second.
Since the beginning of the 80s, all Soviet science has followed the path of "increasing the time frame" for development.
For this is capitalism with a socialist face.
Bonuses, for on time or ahead of schedule, are certainly good, but the extra 3-5 years of excellent funding and salaries are even better.
Especially. that Lenin's prizes were not received by those who actually worked on the problem.

The chiefs and heads of the design bureaus received.
And all the work was done by the Ministry of Taxation and the other National Assembly.
Receiving at best a bonus equal to the quarterly salary. For many years of work.
So which was more profitable?

[Viktor Afanasev]

Quote: APASUS

And who is against it? As always, everything rests on money in our country, they can find them for the Olympics, but there is no money for a new torpedo.

- I agree 100%

Quote: APASUS

Something is hard to believe, we do not print dollars, therefore we do not pledge in series of 10 PL

- Do we build OUR ships for dollars? But rubles could be printed ...
But this is not the main problem ... Unfortunately ...

Quote: APASUS

Can high-speed sea hunters robots. Cheaper and faster in production

- I'm afraid that it will be much more expensive and longer ... So far, there is not a single one in the series.
In the future (distant), perhaps ...

[Rzzz]

Quote: Viktor Afanasev

But rubles could be printed ...

Couldn't. Rubles are printed by the Central Bank, but it does not obey the state in general and the government in particular.
And to print more pieces of paper with numbers means to devalue those numbers that are already printed on pieces of paper. It's just that prices will rise proportionally, and that's it. We will have cool submarines, and there will be bread in the store for 200 rubles - which one would you like best?

[Viktor Afanasev]

Quote: rzzz

Rubles are printed by the Central Bank, but it does not obey the state in general and the government in particular.

- Yes now The central bank is not subordinate to our state, I agree. But this does not mean that it cannot be changed if patriots come to power.
In this context, I talked about what can be done in general, and not at this moment ...

And to print more pieces of paper with numbers means to devalue those numbers that are already printed on pieces of paper. It's just that prices will rise proportionally, and that's it. We will have cool submarines, and there will be bread in the store for 200 rubles - which one would you like best?

- Our entire economy now, unfortunately, works relative to the dollar, and the inflation of the ruble is considered - relative to the dollar. And this is NOT OBJECTIVE and depends on speculation on the stock exchange.
- Prices for food and goods jump - depending on many reasons, including imports, yields, manipulations of large companies, monopolization of a part of the market, expensive loans, rising fuel prices, etc.
- Inflation, as you correctly wrote, arises if the money supply exceeds the commodity supply.
BUT !!!
If you pour money into the cost of a nuclear submarine or frigate under construction, the balance will remain.
This amount will be equal to the new product.
I am not for the insane printing of money, but limited, targeted.

And, on the same topic, about inflation ... "Our" managers shouted a lot that profits from oil in the XNUMXs were taken abroad - so that there would be no inflation ... And what prevented them from purchasing machine tools, patents, technologies??? At the same time, there would be no more money in the economy, but there is much benefit ...

[SovAr238A]

Quote: Viktor Afanasev

- Do we build OUR ships for dollars? But rubles could be printed ...
But this is not the main problem ... Unfortunately ...

Alas, we really build ships in Russia for dollars.
Everything, absolutely all materials used both in the construction of ships (and in thousands of subcontractors, all machines and other equipment and materials along the chain) - have an exchange price, and it is calculated in dollars.
And accordingly, all fluctuations in the exchange prices for materials, all fluctuations in the dollar rate - lead to a change in prices for materials.
And it turns out what exactly for dollars we build our ships, planes, tanks, etc.

[Azimuth]

Quote: Doccor18

The introduction of nine submarines into the US Navy is planned from 2025 to 2029, there is no information on the tenth yet.

The impression is twofold ... On the one hand - respect and envy, on the other - it's the enemy ...

Feelings coincided, I experienced the same while reading.
So far, we can only envy. The pace of construction in the USSR was probably the same, but they are not available to us in the near future.

Judging by the armament of this nuclear submarine, despite the fact that we discussed and forgot about the "Global Strike", they, as they were engaged in its implementation, are continuing. Consistency and consistency, yes adjustments along the way.

[Doccor18]

The pace of construction in the USSR was probably the same

No, the USSR was out of competition ...
Remembering the "kukurznik" how sausages we not only made rockets, but also lowered submarines ...

[Avior]

Serious boat

[Angry]

So four Verginias are equal to one Michigan? Probably soon all four Michigan with 154 CR "Tomahawk" each will go under the knife? Is that why they developed this Block # 5?

[Viktor Afanasev]

Quote: Angry

So four Verginias are equal to one Michigan? Probably soon all four Michigan with 154 CR "Tomahawk" each will go under the knife?

Michigan - Converted from the Ohio series.
Designed for ballistic missiles, and after the signing of START - some, including Michigan, were converted into carriers of tomahawks.
Such nuclear submarines have not been built for specially-winged Americans, and will not be ...
They are no longer young, they will withdraw within 10 years. Virginia is much more perfect.
By the way, OGAIO strategists have been planning for replacement for several years ... A new missile carrier is being developed ...

[Ruslan Sulima]

What kind of award will the crew receive if they manage to bite Virginia?

[Your stranger]

And four Ohio Apple with 154 tomahawks each

[mvg]

The most interesting, not much more expensive pr 855 Ash, taking into account the fact that 855 is a project of the 20th century.

[Rzzz]

Just keep in mind that American boats are being built at a commercial shipyard, and the price already includes the builder's profit, and, obviously, rather sickly. Hence the high rates of construction - it is profitable to build them quickly, so that the ship does not stand idle for a long time on the slipway, and in order to quickly complete the contract, get a calculation for it, and place a new order on the vacated slipway.
In our country, they are building at a state shipyard, so profits are not counted here (shifting from pocket to pocket, while paying taxes - who needs it). The terms are long due to ineffective work according to the methods of the last century, it makes no sense to accelerate, funding is dripping both ways. And the more, the longer it drips, the more you can steal.

[mvg]

it makes no sense to root, funding is dripping and so, and so

Key proposal.

[CommanderDIVA]

The pace of construction evokes respect for the American carabel, and the strengthening of the strike weapons of the American nuclear submarines in this version is apparently dictated by the rapid strengthening of the Chinese Navy, primarily its surface part