USS Key West (SSN-722)
Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the US Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Key West.
USS Key West (SSN-722), a Los Angeles-class submarine, is the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after Key West, Florida.
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USS Key West (SSN-722) entering Pearl Harbor | |
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United States | |
Name | Key West |
Namesake | City of Key West, Florida |
Builder | NGNN |
Laid down | 6 July 1983 |
Launched | 20 July 1985 |
Commissioned | 12 September 1987 |
Decommissioned | 21 September 2023 |
Out of service | 21 September 2023 |
Homeport | Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton[1] |
Status | In Commission, in Reserve (Stand Down), commencement of inactivation availability |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Los Angeles-class submarine |
Displacement | 5,799 tons light, 6,206 tons full, 407 tons dead |
Length | 110.3 m (361.9 ft) |
Beam | 10 m (32.8 ft) |
Draft | 9.4 m (30.8 ft) |
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Test depth | In excess of 800 ft (243.8 m) |
Complement | 16 officers, 127 enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems | BQQ-10 ARCI passive sonar, BQS-15 high frequency active sonar, WLR-8 fire control radar receiver, WLR-9 acoustic receiver for detection of active search sonar and acoustic homing torpedoes, BRD-7 radio direction finder |
Armament | 4 × 21 in (533 mm) midships torpedo tubes, 12 x bow vertical launch tubes (for BGM-109 Tomahawks), up to 25 horizontal reloads (combination of Mk48 ADCAP torpedo or Tomahawk land attack missile block 3 SLCM range 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km)), mine laying Mk67 mobile Mk60 captor mines |
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