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Home» News»General Dynamics secures $2bn contract for Block V Virginia-class SSN production
Euronaval 2022
General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) secured a $2,04 bn US Navy order for the advance purchase of materials for the Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarines, the US Department of Defense announced yesterday.
The Virginia-class attack submarine Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) Indiana (SSN 789) departs Newport News Shipbuilding to conduct Alpha sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean (Credit: General Dynamics Electric Boat/Matt Hildreth/Released)

General Dynamics secures $2bn contract for Block V Virginia-class SSN production

General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) secured a $2,04 bn US Navy order for the advance purchase of materials for the Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarines, the US Department of Defense announced yesterday.

Nathan Gain 19 Mar 2019

Under this contract, GDEB will provide « additional material (to include Long Lead Time Material and Economic Ordering Quantity) associated with the Fiscal 2019 – Fiscal 2023 Virginia class submarines (SSNs 802 – 811) », the Pentagon said. 

The 10 Virginia-class SSNs this contrat is targeting will be assembled within the Block V improvement program. Construction is to begin in 2019, with first contracts for long lead material for the Block V configuration awarded to GDEB in Feb. 2017. 

The Block V SSN will include the Virginia Payload Module, which would give guided-missile capability when the Ohio-class SSGNs are retired from active service. The VPM will add four additional payload tubes, each capable of carrying seven Tomahawk cruise missiles. The VPM tubes will be very similar to the VPTs utilized on Block III and forward ships.

Submarine forces is another center piece of the the FY2020 budget request the US Navy released last week, with the service expecting a $10.2 billion funding for three Virginia-class submarine in 2020 and $2.2 billion for the Columbia-class SSBN design and advance procurement. 

Virginia-class SSN technical characteristics

  • Total length: 114.8 metres
  • Beam: 10.36 metres
  • Displacement: 7,800 tonnes submerged
  • Maximum speed: 25+ knots
  • Crew: 132 persons
  • Range: Unlimited
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Posted by : Nathan Gain
Nathan is based in Namur, Belgium. He holds an MA in modern history with a minor in international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL – Belgium). Fascinated by military history he naturally turned to the defense sector after graduating and is particularly interested in Northern European and Belgian defense issues as well as in anything related to naval aviation.

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