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Navy Undersea Warfare Head Sees Columbia Production Line Options And More VPM Loads

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Navy Undersea Warfare Head Sees Columbia Production Line Options And More VPM Loads
An artist's rendering of the U.S. Navy's future Columbia-class submarine. (Image: U.S. Navy )

The Navy is looking at options to keep the Columbia-class submarine production line hot past a 12th boat and diversify what is loaded into the Virginia Payload Module, the service’s Director of Undersea Warfare said Thursday,The Navy’s 12 Columbia-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) are set to replace the current 14 Ohio-class SSBNs that provide the sea leg of the U.S. nuclear weapons triad. The Columbia boats will carry 16 Trident II-D5 missiles armed with W76 nuclear warheads while the…

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