Important news in the military. The United States Congress has approved a ambitious project of the whose objective is Develop a new generation attack submarine that would see the light in 2040.
The program has been baptized as SSN (x) and has a Budget forecast between 6,700 and 7,000 million dollars (between 6,470 and 6,760 million eurosto the current change) per unit.
As the French media collects it is estimated that the SSN (x) will have a Submerged displacement of about 10,100 tons, 11% more than the SSN-21.
This United States Navy project seeks that the new submarine combine the speed and the load capacity of the Seawolf classthe acoustic discretion of the Virginia class and the Operational availability of the Columbia class.
A differential element of the new SSN class (x) will be its nuclear propulsion systemwhich will use impoverished uranium, something totally new on American warships. The objective of this change is to reduce the risks associated with the use of highly enriched uranium, while maintaining optimal performance.
