According to the US Embassy, the most powerful nation in the
west, the United States of America docked its submarine in Subic Bay,
Philippines as part of the Indo-Asia-Pacific deployment activities.
The submarine is named as the USS Tucson (SSN 70) is known to
be a Los Angeles-class fast track underwater vehicle and the 59th of
its class to be created.
US authorities described the USS Tucson as “one of the
stealthiest and most advanced submarines in the world”. Further, it is among
the 20 Los Angeles-class speedy submarines to go through improvement.
The fast craft is
360 feet in length that can accommodate up to 150 crew members. It has twelve vertical
launch tubes that house the Tomahawk cruise missiles and four torpedo tubes.
This massive underwater machine is truly armed for numerous missions like,
anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface ship warfare, strike and intelligence
surveillance and reconnaissance.
Accordingly, the USS
Tucson operates in all waters all over the world. The crew will be deployed out
in the waters for 11 months.
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