But the most advanced—indeed, the best—may be the Seawolf-class attack submarine. First ordered by the Navy from the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics in Connecticut in 1989, the USS Seawolf ...
At a cost of $3 billion per unit, the Seawolf class was the most expensive SSN submarine. The Virginia ... VLS tubes due to their added volume. USS Texas (SSN 775), Pearl Harbor, HI USS Hawaii ...
Carter, the only president who served as a nuclear submariner, already has a namesake submarine-the USS Jimmy Carter, a Seawolf-class submarine commissioned in 2005 that remains in active service.