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The second nuclear-powered Submarine , USS ''Seawolf'' (SSN-575) , which served from the early 1950s through 1987 , was unique, and so can be considered the lead boat of the "''Seawolf'' (SSN-575) class". Since she had no sister ships, however, there is no distinction between information about that boat and that "class", and references to ''Seawolf''-class submarines may be safely assumed to refer to the three boats listed below, members of the ''Seawolf'' (SSN-21) class. ''SEAWOLF'' (SSN-21) CLASS
The ''Seawolf''-class Attack Submarine (SSN) was the intended successor to the ''Los Angeles'' Class , ordered at the end of the Cold War in 1989 . At one time, an intended fleet of 29 submarines was to be built over a ten-year period, later reduced to twelve. The end of the Cold War and budget constraints led to the fleet being cancelled at three boats in 1995 , and led to the design of the smaller and potentially cheaper ''Virginia''-class Submarine . They are quieter than the previous ''Los Angeles'' class submarines, larger, faster, have twice as many torpedo tubes for a total of 8, and carry more weapons, but were also much more expensive. They were intended to combat the then-threat of large numbers of advanced Soviet Ballistic-missile Submarines in deep ocean, such as the ''Typhoon'' Class , and to reply to the new Soviet ''Lira'' Or Alfa Class attack submarines. However they also have extensive equipment for shallow-water operations, including a floodable silo capable of deploying eight combat swimmers and their equipment at once. The boats can also carry up to 50 Tomahawk Cruise Missile s for land attack. The class uses the more advanced AN/BSY-2 combat system, which includes a new larger spherical Sonar array, a wide aperture array (WAA), and a new towed-array sonar. Each boat is powered by a single S6W Nuclear Reactor , delivering 52,000 hp (39 MW) to a low-noise Pumpjet Propulsor . USS ''Jimmy Carter'' is roughly 100 feet (30 m) longer than the other two ships of her class due to the insertion of a section known as the Multi-Mission Platform (MMP), which allows launch and recovery of ROVs and Navy SEAL forces. General characteristics For all boats:
For SSN-21, SSN-22:
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USS Jimmy Carter is currently homeported in Bangor, Washington. In 2006 the Navy announced that it would homeport all three of its Seawolf submarines in Bangor. EXTERNAL LINKS
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