Specifications
- Builders: GD Electric Boat and HII Newport News
- Length: 377 ft (114.91 m)
- Beam: 34 ft (10.36 m)
- Displacement: 7,800 long tons (7,900 t)
- Payload: 40 weapons, special operations forces, unmanned undersea vehicles, Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS)
- Propulsion: The S9G nuclear reactor
- Maximum diving depth: greater than 800 ft (240 m)
- Speed: 25+ knots
- Planned cost: about US$1.65 billion each (based on FY95 dollars, 30-ship class and two ship/year build-rate)
- Actual cost: about $1.8 billion each (as of 2009)
- Crew: 120 enlisted and 14 officers
- Armament: 12 VLS & four torpedo tubes, capable of launching Mark 48 torpedoes, UGM-109 Tactical Tomahawks, Harpoon missiles and the new advanced mobile mine when it comes available.
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