USS Boise (SSN-764)
Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the US Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Boise.
USS Boise (SSN-764), a Los Angeles-class submarine, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Boise, Idaho. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 6 February 1987 and her keel was laid down on 25 August 1988. She was launched on 23 March 1991, and commissioned on 7 November 1992.
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United States | |
Name | USS Boise |
Namesake | The City of Boise, Idaho |
Awarded | 6 February 1987 |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
Laid down | 25 August 1988 |
Launched | 23 March 1991 |
Commissioned | 7 November 1992 |
In service | in dry dock for repairs |
Homeport | Norfolk, Virginia |
Motto | A One Ship Fleet |
Status | in active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Los Angeles-class submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 110.3 m (361 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 9.4 m (30 ft 10 in) |
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Complement | 13 officers, 121 Enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems | BQQ-5 passive sonar, BQS-15 detecting and ranging 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-inch (533 mm) bow tubes, 10 Mk48 ADCAP torpedo reloads, Tomahawk land attack missile block 3 SLCM range 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km), Harpoon anti–surface ship missile range 70 nautical miles (130 km), mine laying Mk67 mobile Mk60 captor mines |
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