She is the fourth submarine of the United States Navy named for. In place of the Seawolf class, the Virginia-class attack submarine is an advanced stealth, multimission nuclear-powered submarine for deep-ocean antisubmarine warfare and littoral (shallow water) operations. USS Seawolf (SSN-21), is a nuclear powered fast attack submarine and the lead ship of her class. The author’s unprecedented access onboard a Seawolf-class SSN-the USS Connecticut (SSN-22)-is a first for the Navy and provides exclusive coverage found only in this book. With only three in the class, the supersecret USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is virtually off limits to any and all photography. With the end of the Cold War, the Seawolf-class SSNs were limited to the three that were under construction at the time, and the program was terminated. Depicting the USS Seawolf (SSN-21) nuclear-powered attack submarine, commissioned in 1997 as the lead ship in the most advanced attack sub class ever. From its debut in 1997, the nuclear-powered Seawolf (SSN-21) represented the lead ship of the deadliest submarine ever to be constructed for the USN during the Cold War. The USS Seawolf is the lead ship of the Seawolf-class of submarines. Successors to the US Navy’s Los Angeles–class fast-attack submarines (presented in volume 1), the Seawolf- and Virginia-class SSNs are presented here from their initial design and construction, through testing and trials, to current operations. Some 29 vessels of her Seawolf-class were originally ordered though the collapse of the Soviet Union curtailed this total substantially to just the three ships in service - the USS Seawolf (SSN 21), USS Connecticut (SS 22)and the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23).
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