Why the Los Angeles-Class Submarines Are Still America’s Undersea ... Built by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia, the first sub in this class, the USS ...

If not upgraded, Dry Dock 3 would become functionally obsolete once the Navy retires the last of its Los Angeles-class submarines, as it intends to. That would result in a shrunken workforce and ...

The Navy announced it has awarded an $8 billion mega contract to 11 companies — including both local and mainland contractors ...

The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Olympia (SSN-717 ... The dry docks the service has closed are four of the newest ones. Dry Dock 4 and 5 were both built in the early 1940s, while ...

KITTERY, Maine – The USS Hampton (SSN 767), a Los Angeles improved-class attack ... While at the shipyard, USS Hampton, which entered Dry Dock 1, will undergo several system upgrades and ...

The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Topeka at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. US Navy will replace a Pearl Harbor dry dock with new graving dock to ...

The submarine tender spent the past year at Mare Island Dry Dock in Vallejo ... Land primarily support Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarines but can provide “nearly any service a submarine ...

The current dry dock is too small to handle the Navy’s Virginia-class attack submarines, the service’s nuclear-powered subs that are replacing the slightly smaller Los Angeles-class vessels.

"Our Dry Dock 3 is very shallow, and to maintain our capacity as we switch between Los Angeles-class submarines, which are reaching their end of life, over to the Virginia-class submarines ...

Built by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News ... Thanks to her nuclear reactor, the Los Angeles-class submarine has a seemingly limitless range and poses a grave ...