Sourced: The National Interest
By Dave Majumdar
The United States Navy commissioned its news attack submarine, USS Colorado (SSN-788) into service this weekend. The powerful Block III Virginia-class attack submarine is the fifteenth vessel of its kind to join the fleet as they slowly replace the long-serving Los Angeles-class boats as the backbone of the Navy’s undersea force.
“Our submarines are in high demand today and the expectations for Colorado are a mile high,” Adm. J. Franklin Caldwell, Jr., Director of Naval Reactors, said in his speech on March 17. “In her lifetime, Colorado will travel thousands of miles undetected to protect our nation and our interests around the globe. We cannot begin to imagine all the missions that she will do and all of the places she will sail, but we do know that Colorado’s stealth, her endurance, her combat power, and her speed will ensure that our Navy remains in control of the undersea domain.”
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