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Navy Deploys ASDS From SSGN For First Time

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Thursday, May 1st, 2008

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By Geoff Fein The Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS), a small submersible capable of deploying Special Operations Command (SOCOM) from a submarine operated for the first time from one of the Navy's newest SSGN's, the USS Michigan (SSGN-727), according to Northrop Grumman [NOC]. SOCOM had been banking on Northrop Grumman's effort to build a small submersible that could be deployed from an Ohio-class converted submarine to insert and extract special operations forces (SOF). But a series of reliability issues with…

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