Groton, Conn. submarine builder Basic Dynamics Electrical Boat hosted a christening ceremony for the U.S. Navy’s new Virginia-class submarine Idaho (SSN 799) March 16.
Idaho is the twenty sixth submarine within the Virginia class, designed for the complete vary of Twenty first-century mission necessities, together with anti-submarine and floor ship warfare and particular operations help. Electrical Boat and its accomplice Newport Information Shipbuilding share building of the Virginia class in a teaming settlement. Idaho is the thirteenth submarine within the class to be delivered by Electrical Boat.
The submarine would be the fourth U.S. Navy warship and the primary U.S. Navy submarine to hold the identify Idaho.
