USS_Arkansas_(SSN-800)

USS <i>Arkansas</i> (SSN-800)

USS Arkansas (SSN-800)

US Navy Virginia-class submarine

For other ships with the same name, see USS Arkansas.

USS Arkansas (SSN-800) is a Virginia-class nuclear powered attack submarine currently being built for the United States Navy. She is the twenty-seventh boat of the class and the fifth vessel to be named for the U.S. state of Arkansas. She was ordered on 28 April 2014, and named during a ceremony on 15 June 2016 by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus.[3] Arkansas was keel laid on 19 November 2022 at Newport News Shipbuilding.[2]

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Service History

Construction

On 27 September 2023, Huntington Ingalls Industries, which oversees Newport News Shipbuilding, announced that the pressure hull of Arkansas had been completed.[4]

A fictionalized version of Arkansas was featured in the 2018 film Hunter Killer, which was based on the novel Firing Point by George Wallace and Don Keith.

References

  1. [1]
    "Naval Vessel Register".
  2. [2]
    "HII Authenticates Keel Of Virginia-class Attack Submarine Arkansas (SSN 800)" (Press release). Huntington Ingalls Industries. 19 November 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  3. [3]
    "New Navy sub will be named USS Arkansas". 15 June 2016.
  4. [4]
    "HII Marks Arkansas (SSN 800) Construction Milestone at Newport News Shipbuilding". HII. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
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