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Navy Plans Hypersonic Weapons On SSGN Subs By 2025

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020

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Navy Plans Hypersonic Weapons On SSGN Subs By 2025

The Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Michigan (SSGN-727) arrives in Busan for a regularly scheduled port visit in 2017. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jermaine Ralliford)

A top Navy official said the service plans to deploy the first conventional hypersonic weapons on Ohio-class submarines by 2025 before adding them to newer Virginia-class vessels starting in 2028. The weapons, called Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) capability, are scheduled to be deployed first to the Army by around 2023 and then to the Navy on its four-vessel group of Ohio-class non-nuclear weapon armed guided-missile submarines (SSGNs) by around 2025, Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe, director of Strategic Systems programs, said…

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