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Ohio-class submarine

The Ohio class of nuclear-powered submarines includes the United States Navy's 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and its four cruise missile submarines (SSGNs). Each displacing 18,750 tons submerged, the Ohio-class boats are the largest submarines ever built for the U.S. Navy. They are also the third-largest submarines ever built, behind the Russian Navy's Soviet era 48,000-ton Typhoon class, the last of which was retired in 2023,[b][11] and 24,000-ton Borei class.[12] Capable of carrying 24 Trident II missiles apiece, the Ohio class are equipped with just as many missiles as, if not more than, either the Borei class (16) or the deactivated Typhoon class (20).

Like their predecessors the Benjamin Franklin and Lafayette-class,[13] the Ohio-class SSBNs are part of the United States' nuclear-deterrent triad, along with U.S. Air Force strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.[14] The 14 SSBNs together carry about half of U.S. active strategic thermonuclear warheads. Although the Trident missiles have no preset targets when the submarines go on patrol,[15]: 392  they can be given targets quickly, from the United States Strategic Command based in Nebraska,[16] using secure and constant radio communications links, including very low frequency systems.


All the Ohio-class submarines, except for USS Henry M. Jackson, are named for U.S. states, which U.S. Navy tradition had previously reserved for battleships and later cruisers. The Ohio class is to be gradually replaced by the Columbia class beginning in 2031.

wrote Ohio class submarines into several novels,[53] such as USS Maine (SSBN-741) in The Sum of All Fears (1991).[54]

Tom Clancy

The fictional is featured in the 1989 film The Abyss.[55]

USS Montana

is the setting for the 1995 submarine film Crimson Tide.[56]

USS Alabama

The fictional ballistic missile submarine USS Colorado (SSBN-753) is the primary setting for the television series Last Resort.[57]

ABC

is featured in Season 1, Episode 13 of the American television series The Brave.[58]

USS Wyoming

As ballistic-missile submarines, the Ohio class has occasionally been portrayed in fiction books and films.

List of submarine classes of the United States Navy

List of submarines of the United States Navy

List of submarine classes in service

Submarines in the United States Navy

Submarine-launched ballistic missile

Chant, Chris (2005). Submarine Warfare Today. Leicester, United Kingdom: Silverdale Books.  1-84509-158-2. OCLC 156749009.

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Chinworth, William C. (15 March 2006). (PDF) (Master of Strategic Studies thesis). Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania: U.S. Army War College. OCLC 70852911.

The Future of the Ohio Class Submarine

Genat, Robert; Genat, Robin (1997). . Osceola, Wisconsin: Motorbooks International. ISBN 0-7603-0276-6. OCLC 36713050.

Modern U.S. Navy Submarines

Dalgleish, D. Douglas; Schweikart, Larry (1984). Trident. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

Hutchinson, Robert (2006). Jane's Submarines War Beneath the Waves: From 1776 to the Present Day. New Line Books.  978-1-59764-181-4.

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O'Rourke, Ronald. . Congressional Research Service – via Every CRS Report.

"Navy Columbia (SSBN-826) Class Ballistic Missile Submarine Program: Background and Issues for Congress"

SSBN-726 Ohio-class page on Globalsecurity.org

on YouTube

"USS Kentucky SSBN 737 Ballistic Missile Submarine"

Chonday video: The Largest Submarine in the U.S. Navy