This submarine is one of the most powerful to ever go under the waves.
The “Buckeye State” may be nearly 500 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, but ask any U.S. Navy submariner about the
Ohio-class submarines and they ll tell you it is a platform that should strike fear into America s enemies. The submarine class that serves the Navy was developed as a virtually undetectable undersea launch platform to launch intercontinental missiles.
As the largest subs ever constructed for the U.S. Navy, and the third-largest submarines ever built, the boats were designed to carry the concurrently developed Trident submarine-launched ballistic missiles. A total of eighteen of the
Nuclear trains were once considered a relic of the Cold War.
But now the secretive locomotives could be set for a comeback, carrying warheads around Russia in a move that could set Moscow on a collision course with Washington, Russian experts said.
In comments carried by the Mosckovsky Komsomolets newspaper, Russian military expert Alexey Leonkov outlined how the Sovietera project could be reborn.
He said the deployment of train-based intercontinental ballistic missiles might be Russia s next step amid escalating nuclear tensions with NATO. The deployment is sure to raise hackles in the United States, which would see this kind of project as a threat to its missile defense system.
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1621 Born: William Tucker, believed to be first African-American born in the New World.
1777 General George Washington defeats the British led by British General Lord Charles Cornwallis, at Princeton, New Jersey.
1793 Lucretia Coffin Mott, women’s rights advocate and founder of the first Women’s Rights Convention.
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