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Prototype "fleet submarines"—submarines fast enough (21 knots (11 m/s)) to travel with battleships. Twice the size of any concurrent or past U.S. submarine. A poor tandem engine design caused the boats to be decommissioned by 1923 and scrapped in 1930.
There are three major types of submarines in the United States Navy: ballistic missile submarines, attack submarines, and cruise missile submarines. All submarines currently in the U.S. Navy are nuclear-powered. Ballistic missile submarines have a single strategic mission of carrying nuclear submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
An attack submarine or hunter-killer submarine is a submarine specifically designed for the purpose of attacking and sinking other submarines, surface combatants and merchant vessels. In the Soviet and Russian navies they were and are called "multi-purpose submarines". [ 1 ]
Ballistic-missile submarine Cruise-missile submarine Nuclear-powered attack submarine Diesel-electric attack submarine Midget submarine Main article Algerian National Navy: 6 Current force Royal Australian Navy: 6 Current force Bangladesh Navy: 2 Current force Brazilian Navy: 7? Current force Royal Canadian Navy: 4 Current force Chilean Navy: 4
Stickleback class (midget submarines) Porpoise class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer) Oberon class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer) HMS Dreadnought (S101) Valiant class attack submarines; Resolution class ballistic missile submarines; Churchill class attack submarines; Swiftsure class attack submarines; Trafalgar class attack submarines; Upholder ...
The Ohio class is named after Ohio because the USS Ohio submarine is the lead submarine in its class. There are 18 total Ohio-class submarines, 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) and four ...
Nuclear attack submarines. China's interest in nuclear submarines dates as far back as the mid 1950s, immediately after the US Navy commissioned the world's first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus ...
The first sea-based missile deterrent forces were a small number of conventionally powered cruise missile submarines and surface ships fielded by the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s, deploying the Regulus I missile and the Soviet P-5 Pyatyorka (also known by its NATO reporting name SS-N-3 Shaddock), both land attack cruise missiles that could be launched from surfaced submarines.