Sentences with phrase «nuclear attack submarines»

In 1962 the United States Navy built a submarine base on Ballast Point as home port for the Pacific Fleet's nuclear attack submarines.

When the Navy needed someone to build 28 Virginia class nuclear attack submarines, as well as 12 Columbia class ballistic missile subs, General Dynamics was one of the few companies with the facilities and technical background to get the job done, so it won the primary contractor position on both.

China would have as many aircraft carriers as Britain and India, more nuclear attack submarines than either Britain or France, and as many AEGIS - like destroyers as all the other non-US navies combined.

China would have two aircraft carriers, 20 - 22 AEGIS like destroyers and 6 - 7 nuclear attack submarines, while United States would have eleven aircraft carriers; 88 AEGIS like destroyers; and 48 nuclear attack submarines.

Russia is also building fifth - generation nuclear attack submarines, known as the Yasen - class.

While on the campaign trail, Trump talked about a Navy man who was sentenced to federal prison for taking photographs inside a nuclear attack submarine.

Not exact matches

A Chinese Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Type 054 frigate and a Shang - class nuclear - powered attack submarine were used in the operation, distinguishing the incident from prior incursions in two ways.

William, In the words of david berlinski: «Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for Zyklon B, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental ballistic missiles, military space platforms, and nuclear weapons?

The army and navy in all honesty we did not know he held a 3rd dan black belt in sho rea, he had been trained in air born and air assault and nuclear weapons and their security on trident submarines so when somebody attacked him or use a weapon to intimidate him he considered only one option, deadly force had just been authorized.

Since 1969 the United Kingdom has always had at least one ballistic - missile submarine on patrol, giving it a nuclear deterrent that is, what the Defence Council described in 1980 as, «effectively invulnerable to pre-emptive attack».

Was this was a rogue attack, launched individually by radicals who took control of a nuclear submarine, and not an act of state policy?

A report for the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) warns of a «stark» gap now exists between the reduced threat of a nuclear attack and the deterrent patrols operated by Britain's nuclear submarines.

Instead of watching out for a nuclear attack, the real danger is an attack on the submarines.

Asher has held a variety of positions, but a lot of what he learned about leadership and sales he picked up in the Navy, where he served as captain of two nuclear - powered fast attack submarines before becoming the program manager for a billion - dollar software development program.

Packed with too many stars to mention, Jack Ryan, played by Alec Baldwin, finds himself on the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Dallas trying to convince its Captain, Bart Mancuso, that a Soviet submarine they are chasing is actually looking to defect, not to attack the U.S. with nuclear weapons as the Soviets claim.

He was an electrical officer on a fast - attack submarine (USS Permit, SSN - 594) in San Diego, and his son, David, also an aeronautical engineer, is starting Navy nuclear training to be a fast - attack submarine officer.

Before attending law school, Russ served as a division officer on board a nuclear - powered, fast - attack submarine and was certified as a Naval Nuclear Engineer by the Department of Energy's Naval Reactors Dinuclear - powered, fast - attack submarine and was certified as a Naval Nuclear Engineer by the Department of Energy's Naval Reactors DiNuclear Engineer by the Department of Energy's Naval Reactors Division.