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USS Asheville (SSN-758)
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Asheville (SSN-758) |
Namesake | Asheville, North Carolina |
Awarded | 26 November 1984 |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company |
Laid down | 9 January 1987 |
Launched | 24 February 1990 |
Christened | 28 October 1989 |
Commissioned | 28 September 1991 |
Homeport | Naval Base Guam |
Motto | From The Mountains, To The Seas |
Nickname(s) | The Ghost of the Coast[1] |
Status | in active service |
Badge | |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Los Angeles-class submarine |
Displacement | 6000 tons light, 6927 tons full, 927 tons dead |
Length | 362 ft (110 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draft | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | Surfaced:20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) Submerged: +20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) (official) |
Complement | 20 officers, 110 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[4] |
Electronic warfare & decoys | WLR-10 countermeasures set[4] |
Armament | 4 × 21 in (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 |
USS Asheville (SSN-758), is a Los Angeles-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine. She is the fourth vessel of the United States Navy to be named for Asheville, North Carolina. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 26 November 1984 and her keel was laid down on 9 January 1987. She was launched on 24 February 1990, sponsored by Mrs. Dorothy Helms, and commissioned on 28 September 1991.
Asheville was fitted with a developmental Advanced Mine Detection System (AMDS) high-frequency active sonar array with transmitters and receivers in the sail and in a disc-shaped chin sonar dome beneath the hull at the bow. The system is used for target detection, mine avoidance, and bottom navigation. After a highly successful testing period the system was removed during overhaul in 2003.[5]