USS Ohio SSGN 726 is on the way to the shipyard grave

[Mr Quatro]

https://www.businessinsider.com/navy...LCvkFntxaaim7o

After 45 years, the Navy is planning to 'recycle' a first-of-its-kind missile submarine

USS Ohio SSGN 726 is on the hit list for deactivation

In December, the US Navy released its 30-year ship-building plan, which called for building 404 new vessels to reach a 541-ship fleet by 2051, with 304 current vessels retired over that period.

Fourteen of the vessels to be retired are nuclear-powered and thus need to be recycled as part of the Navy's Ship-Submarine Recycling Program to ensure safe disposal of their nuclear reactors and fuel.

Those ships include the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and 13 nuclear submarines: 11 Los Angeles-class attack subs and two Ohio-class cruise-missile submarines, known as SSGNs.

USS Ohio, lead ship of the class, will be one of the two SSGNs recycled. It will be the end of a four-decade career for the first sub of its kind.

More information about the Ohio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ohio_(SSGN-726)

[Kapitan]

To be expected as they get older they get more expensive to maintain.

It also denotes the USN is also behind the competition namely Russia as their next generation is already at sea.

Also peer navies have beaten the USN to the punch with the British already going ahead with Dreadnought and the French going ahead with their new SNLE 3G which comes online around 2035