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US Navy - Attack SubmarineSSN 753 - USS Albany |
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Type, class: Attack Submarine, nuclear propulsion - SSN; Los Angeles class (Flight III / 688i - improved) Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock, Newport News, Virginia, USA
STATUS: Awarded: November 29, 1983 Laid down: April 22, 1985 Launched: June 13, 1987 Commissioned: April 7, 1990 IN SERVICE (2015)
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia Namesake: City of Albany, New York Ships Motto: STILL MAKING HISTORY Technical Data: see: INFO > Los Angeles class Attack Submarine - SSN |
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USS Albany (SSN 753): Albany served initially with Submarine Squadron (SubRon) 8, Submarine Group 6, at Norfolk, Va. She was shifted to SubRon 6 at Norfolk on 31 August 1991. The attack submarine was commissioned with 12 bow-mounted VLS tubes, but only subsequently completed her UGM-109 Tomahawk submarine launched cruise missile certification (Phase I, 6-21 January and Phase II, 25 February-6 March 1992). During Phase II, she also certified to fire Mk 48 Advanced Capability (ADCAP) torpedoes. The submarine carried out her maiden deployment during a voyage to the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean (22 July-24 December 1992). She crossed the Arctic Circle on 30 July, passed through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean on 6 September, participated in NATO multi-threat exercise Display Determination ’92 (26 September - 8 October), and returned through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic on 12 December. In addition, Albany accomplished voyage repairs while she visited Faslane, Scotland (31 August - 3 September); Naples (11-16 September and 11-19 November) (Secretary of the Navy Sean C. O’Keefe visited Albany while she lay moored at Naples on 13 November); and San Steffaino, Italy (17-22 September, 7-10 November, and 21 November - 7 December); and Gibraltar (10-12 December). Hurricane Floyd compelled 80 Navy ships and submarines and dozens of aircraft between Mayport, Fla., and Norfolk to emergency sortie in September 1999. Albany escaped the tempest while submerged off the east coast (15-18 September). Albany launched an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) while she operated on the surface on 20 July 2005. The test, utilizing a UAV similar to the AeroVironment Dragon Eye Advanced Tactical Reconnaissance Monitoring Platform (DE-ATR - subsequently designated RQ-14A), demonstrated some of the tactical advantages conferred by deploying UAVs from attack submarines. Albany worked with a tug during the evaluation. “This technology extends the submarine’s reach. We already pride ourselves on being stealthy,” Lt. Cmdr. Rob Jezek, Albany’s executive officer, explained, “and the Advanced Tactical Recce capability within the UAV adds to our range of senses. It has many implications, including the ability to gather intelligence and perform advanced reconnaissance for Special Operations Forces insertion.” “In a real-life scenario,” Dr. Warren Schultz, Associate Superintendent of the Chemistry Division at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), elaborated, “a submarine could launch the UAV 20 miles off the coast while inserting Special Operations Forces. The boat could maintain control of the plane and then hand it off to the Special Forces before they landed on shore. Control of the UAV is easily transferred from one operator to another.” During a deployment to Northern European waters, Albany spent more than 30 days operating above the Arctic Circle, while steaming in the Norwegian Sea (12 February - 8 August 2010). source: US Naval History & Heritage Command |
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